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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Matt Towery :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Honoring of Ignorance
by Matt Towery
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So, you might say, people get their news from radio and cable television talk shows. Some do, but as a percentage of the population, you could take everyone who watches programs on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, add in everyone who listens to talk radio stations, and it still doesn't come close to the numbers needed to have an informed population.

OK, it's the Internet, right? Well, yes, in the sense that younger Americans are increasingly likely to turn to their laptops or hand-held devices for information. But how do they know the source is reliable? And since they have endless choices of where to go on the web to be entertained and enlightened, will they choose hard news sites? The news organizations would have you think so, but in reality, many of the people going to news sites on the Internet are the same news junkies who watch network or cable news, and who read papers.

So who or what should be blamed for this mess? Technology? Our educational system? The breakdown of the family unit?

Certainly all of this has contributed to what I believe will be a day not too many years down the line when the average citizen will have known so little about the issues of the day during their early years that they will be too darn dumb to understand or care once they are mature adults.

The truth is that America has come to honor ignorance. Increasingly, Americans would rather worship an American Idol or a Dancing Star than take the time to read a newspaper or watch a news program. Moreover, with instant messaging, TiVo, Twitter, Facebook, DVDs and so many highly segmented ways to find entertainment, the days of the structured "television broadcast" may be numbered -- and not by a matter of decades, but of years.

Those who want to dance a jig over the hard times that many a so-called "liberal rag" or conservative "tabloid" are encountering might think twice. A public that reads, listens and forms an opinion is a public that is our only protection from becoming the pawns of powerbrokers and potential dictators. A public that doesn't is simply ignorant.

To those who would wish to destroy our nation -- be it through extremism to the left or right or some other wacky direction -- ignorance is bliss.

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Matt Towery is a former National Republican legislator of the year and author of Powerchicks: How Women Will Dominate America.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Apr 24, 2009 - 7:40 PM EST
Global Ignorance is the Problem
Global Ignorance is the problem that presents a clear and present danger to our sustainability as free nation. Forget Global Warming, the government is using this fiasco in order to begin taxing us out of existence to try and pay for the massive government expansion of size, expenditures and power that is taking place. They have been brainwashing our children in public schools with this nonsense since the Liberal Wackoes took over our education system, including the teacher colleges.

Scaring little children about so called man made global warming is aimed at bringing up mimes who believe anything they hear from teachers, from the media, and from the government that is turning them into mindless robots. This is how the communist plan was designed and is now being enacted by a communist president and a congress controlled by fellow-communists. They are caving to the leftist wackoes such as the Code Pinkos, Move On.Org, ACORN, PETA, and other radical groups and being funded by the enemies of the Unites States such as George Soros, an Eastern European Communist. Wake up America.
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Date: Apr 24, 2009 - 7:27 PM EST
Idiocracy (part 2)
Some believe that it was following the communist manifesto and rules for radicals to dumb down and indoctrinate the nations children who grow up to be ignorant and illiterate followers who are dominated and dependent on the government. And, when you look at this last election and the level of ingorance of the masses that voted for Obama, you can see that it has worked. If we do not turn this trend around and begin raising educated and responsible childen again, the situation that was displayed in this movie will occur, but it will not take another 500 years. We are well on our way now. If Obama and the Liberals get their way, there is going to be Mandatory Attendance in Public Indoctrination Centers called Pre-K, etc. These Communists now in charge of this nation do not want to leave even one child Left Behind that Can think for him/herself and misses out on the Indoctrination that will bring them up to be good little Godless, Immoral Communist Worker Bees and idiots.

Americans had better wake up and speak up while you still can. And, if you have children attending Public Schools, especially in inner cities, you need to rescue them and keep them at home or put in private schools. They would be better off with no education at all if the only education that they are getting is from a Federally Controlled Indoctrination and Dumbing Down Machine, which is what the U.S. Department of Education is engineering. Under the so called Stimulus Bill, the USDOeducation got another 130 billion added to their 70 billion budget, and this exapands the power of the USDOE to the level that now there Is no Local and State Control in public education at all. This was their plan, and they did it in just over 40 years of Federal Intervention Into Public Education. That was the beginning of the end of freedom in the United States of America. TAKE your Kids Back. Take Your Schools Back. If you do this, we may defeat Communism yet.
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