How Did Americans Get So Damn Stupid?

A Harris poll released today indicates that 50% of Americans still believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction at the time Bush invaded the country. The figure is up from 38% last year. This kind of news is really disconcerting to a person like me- and no doubt you- who has been basically optimistic about the prospects of reason ultimately prevailing in this country and the right-wing tyranny that's been emerging being stopped. What in heaven's name is going on? Is it that the deteriorated education system, coupled with years of being manipulated by the merchant advertisers and their politician-servants has produced a population of functional morons? Has right-wing talk radio, Fox News and the like made an indelible mark? No wonder other recent polls taken around the world reveal that people all over think that Americans have taken leave of their senses. I wrote a blog recently asking whether we ought to start thinking about emigrating like our ancestors (blogger.com - Search: theopendimension). My conclusion in the blog was " probably not yet;" But it's becoming more and more apparent that rational Americans who want to get their country back have their work cut out for them.