The Ignorant American Voter

Il ya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, observes in a new study for the Cato Institute that voters tend to be "abysmally ignorant of even very basic political information." This may not be news to scholars, who have documented it in depressing detail, "but the sheer depth of most individual voters' ignorance is shocking to observers not familiar with the research."
I see this frequently when discussing issues such as the Iraqi Survey Group, North Korea (oh yeah, we technically are still at war with them), National Intelligence Director, and Rumsfeld's DoD transformation. To discuss public and foreign policy with the 'person-on-the-street' is next to impossible. It starts in the school system; the influence of political correctness has poisoned our American learning...//JW sends.