Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!



Recent Entries
Absent Friends
Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024
Captain Hate 2023
moon_over_vermont 2023
westminsterdogshow 2023
Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022
Dave In Texas 2022
Jesse in D.C. 2022
OregonMuse 2022
redc1c4 2021
Tami 2021
Chavez the Hugo 2020
Ibguy 2020
Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published. Contact OrangeEnt for info:
maildrop62 at proton dot me
Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups





















« Martial Open Thread | Main | Food Thread: Festive Hunks Of Flesh And Cookies From Our Youth! »
December 27, 2020

First-World Problems...Part Nege En Dertig

dunces.jpg

At the risk of bringing up a first-world problem that is actually quite serious, over the last 20 years or so I have seen an increasing number of young dumbasses. People out of college who should have some basic knowledge of the facts of world and American history and some appreciation for the tides of change.

I'm not talking about deep knowledge. I don't expect these almost-children to be able to speak authoritatively about the details of historical events. But knowing the broad strokes of history is imperative for an informed electorate, and I haven't seen much proof that our new voters have even the faintest clue about anything.

I'll even grant them the popular misconception that Nazi Germany was right wing. After all, their professors believe that...or lie about it...so I shouldn't be surprised by that one. And the multi-generational glossing-over of communism? Well sure! Most of their professors are closer to communism than to Western democratic principles in their political philosophies.

But damn. They really don't know anything. Who fought WWI? When and how did WWII begin and end? When did we enter Vietnam, and who pushed us into (and out of) that conflict?

And that's just 20th century stuff? Forget earlier. Ask one of these dummies what the 3/5 compromise was or why the South lost the Civil War (War of The Rebellion) or what Karl Marx actually wrote and thought or why there are Protestants in Northern Ireland and you will get a vacuous stare.

Why yes; I was confronted by one of these knuckleheads quite recently! I had to tell him that The Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, not WWII. And that FDR was not the savior of the Jews and Israel. And he didn't believe me.

But I was proud of myself: I didn't respond with my usual, "You can't possibly be that fvcking stupid!"


digg this
posted by CBD at 02:10 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
Anonosaurus Wrecks, Born In the Wagon of a Middle Class Show [/i] [/s] [/b] [/u]: "Poor baby! MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski Holds ..."

Bertram Cabot, Jr.: " [i] https://kamalaharris.com/wp-content/upl P ..."

Braenyard: "472 Hezbollah is in a "financial crisis" and is un ..."

Beelzebub: "Bill Clinton's corpse is animated by STDs. Like a ..."

Jussie Smollett: "Hezbollah is in a "financial crisis" and is unable ..."

See? Nobody cares: "Dear Marthe, So gun weilding thugs outside your do ..."

Doctor Elric the Blade: "Laura Loomer said she won't touch the Walz story u ..."

Soothsayer: " Have you seen james carville, lately? He look ..."

Braenyard: "460 So Clinton says we need illegals to pop out ki ..."

Sebastian Melmoth: "It's my understanding, at least in person, he was ..."

Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist: "Hezbollah is in a "financial crisis" and is unable ..."

Skip : "Are we willowed? ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64