Why do we celebrate Independence Day? Is it our liberation from Russia? Is it just so we can have a party weekend? It seems like a basic question, but a surprising number of people don’t even know. What’s going on with our country and our educational system when people don’t even know why we celebrate our founding holiday?
Watch this video and ask yourself if you think our country is headed in the right direction…
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And to think, these people have the “right” to vote. This video clearly shows what kind of trouble we are in. No one should be granted a high school diploma if they can’t answer the simple questions posed in this video, and they certainly shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Women should NEVER be allowed to vote ever again and no man under 21 should be allowed to vote unless he is serving our country in the military.
“I don’t mind getting raped by hiper-aggressive Muslim men but please don’t call me a racist.”
–American women, European women, Scandinavian women and liberal women everywhere.
If we take away the women’s vote and the 18-year old snow flakes Trump would be ahead 60%-39%. Case closed, next case.
Excuse me, wolfen, but not ALL women are idiots, and we NEED the votes of those who are NOT–like ME–to counter the ones who ARE.
I can understand your disdain. I continually shake my head in DISGUST at what LIBERAL IDIOTS a lot of women are, but there are a lot of MEN in that category, too, and if we are going to DEFEAT their stupidity at the polls, we need all the votes we can get!
I agree, woman have earned the right to vote for almost a century now, however i also agree, that if someone can’t answer the simple questions asked in that video, they don’t Deserve to graduate high school, let alone be considered a voter!
BUT it just goes to show how ‘well’ the DoI’s liberal indoctrination has done on the latest graduating generation..
oleteabag,
You’re a gal? As tough as you are, you a former Mother Superior (I assure you I ask with the utmost respect for the office even though I’m not Catholic)?
No, NHPollack, not even Catholic. Just a red-white-and-blue, dyed-in-the-wool patriot and lifelong Conservative.
Perfect little “progressive” DEMOCRATS!!! Don’t worry about THINKING kiddies, just do whatever you’re freraking TOLD to do by “benevolent leader”!!!
oleteabag,
A reincarnation of Molly Pitcher? Women like you are why there’s any Republic left at all. May God bless you and keep you well.
The Democrats teach our kids history but not really. They teach our kids how to be Progressive Democrats, hate Republicans and pit them against Blacks. That is why these idiots cannot answer easy questions.
Teaching socialism injustice and lie. Socialism fail in all word, Bernie are on idiot guy ignore a true.Let me see,Promote a illegal alien to President, broke Constitution, a guy with multiple mental disorder, abuse power, war to senior and treat older worse who garbage, promote violence, discrimination, racist and sure became to rich, travel and buy around a word for free, let invation of illegal call immigrant, but are not,give right to mental ill, Liberals any where abuse a power, create legion of enemy who in a last be will destroy all Liberals, wrong name for Party, Anti Democrat hate Nazi Party and murder innocent baby, make real suffer most American, but NOT are forever, who go up must come down, but consequences be will to much hard, add liberals number go down, and NO liberals a number grow to big.
It goes deeper than that, RandyRose. They ALSO are teaching our kids to hate their own country and heritage, by constantly revising the history books to portray America as a great evil that is to blame for ALL the world’s problems! If you start early enough–and they start spoon-feeding our kids this bilge when they are in KINDERGARTEN–you can thoroughly INDOCTRINATE younger generations to be dumbed-down, compliant SHEEP who are easy to control and employ as “useful idiots”. And so they have!
If we are going to save our country and make it great again, it is VITAL that we wrest control of schools and colleges away from the LOONY LEFT!
And we can start that process by Eliminating the Dept of Indoctrination and handing control of schools BACK to each state!
Well San Diego is close to Mexxxxxxxxxxxico so I wonder why some of these brilliant snow flakes don’t say something brilliant like, “We are celebrating our independence from Tijuana.”
Actually I liked the Jesse Ventura answer the best as one of our Founding Fathers.
Don’t forget folks, these snow flakes VOTE. Fortunately they vote by state. Maybe if they can be convinced that Donald Trump is a Founding Father then who knows…
Wolfen – not only do these snow flakes vote, they breed !! I fear for the future of this country !!!
And cause Unca sam pays them to keep just cranking out kid after kid, they breed like rabbits, while the smart folk Wait till they can afford to do so.. So we get bred out..
Just like in the film Idiocracy!
Don’t need to watch the video at all — I’ve seen history textbooks in libraries since NLT 1998 which fail to mention Longfellow (who was one of America’s greatest authors and poets, and the only one AFAIK honoured with a bust in Westminster Abbey’s “Poets’ Corner”***). When people fail to understand their hisotry, then they’re headed for disaster/catastrophe!
I think the male would be hard to clean, but the female looks soft, tender and nicely marbled. They’re no more than ambulatory slaves and food.
The Morelocks (HG Wells Time Machine)aka Demonrats can handle him.
No doubt!
Sadly it is what has happened to our nation and the commie/libs who have done this to us are now “running” our nation with the intent to create an impossible “socialist” nation that has failed everywhere it has been tried. Our education was a major attack for many decades and certainly since the 1960s it has moved very fast to create lies about our history and now “teach” it as though it is true and America is a racist and bad nation. Yes, it is bull but the kids and their parents do not read real history and the teachers also, now, don’t know it either. We need to get rid of the Department of “Education” and the unions and beauacrats and focus on the teachers and the students. PERIOD!!! Principals do NOT need six figure incomes and the Superintendents (why do we even need them? because of the Dept of Ed “programs”) 200,000 dollar incomes. Put them in the classrooms, too, and let them teach 5 hours a week.
IMO Deans and headmasters of schools should at MOST have 35% higher pay than the best teacher at that school. NOT in some cases, 200% higher…..
Well, ituser, the “administrators” and “superintendants” decide how the school’s money will be spent, so . . .
So.. Just cause they decide how the money’s spent, doesn’t mean they should have such a massive payroll compared to someone else..
It’s worse than simply ignorance by omission. We’re now between the third and fourth generation of students who were taught that America got what it has by exploitation and theft rather than Christian virtue and accomplishment. It’s called cultural Marxism, and it’s been increasingly taught in schools at all levels since the early 1980s. First Nixon’s and then Reagan’s election as well as the Vietnam War and the Cold War in general motivated Alinskyite Communists to try to take control of academia and media in order to convert future voters from Constitutional freedom to Marxist totalitarianism. They have been incredibly successful in convincing generations of Americans that rather than being the land of the free and home of the brave, the USA is criminally racist, greedy, and unjust.
Chapter and verse in a nutshell. Nice job!
Before I even clicked the video I could tell this was California. Where the brainless go, to elect Nancy Pelosi as their queen, and celebrate every decision from the 9th Circus Court.
DrGadget, you’ve really got to wonder about the IQs, let alone the SANITY of people who would elect the Queen of the Moonbats to ANYTHING–much less keep sending her back to Congress for 30 years! Her FELLOW moonbats Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are JUST as empty-headed as Nancy!
And Florida is not California. There is still HOPE for Florida, and yet they have elected the Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen of the Moonbats as THEIR Congressional representative–Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Those corkscrew curls of hers aren’t just on the OUTSIDE–they go all the way through her skull!
I disagree there, i don’t think there is much hope left for redeeming Florida…
Don’t forget they also have Moonbeam for a governor.
It’s possible Florida will go the way of California, ituser–with all the illegals and all. But there IS still a glimmer of hope, as they do manage to elect somebody who is at least QUASI-Conservative occasionally! And didn’t Col. ALLEN WEST come from Florida? I think Allen West is a GREAT American–and WOULD have voted for him if he had run for President. It’s a crying shame somebody like HIM could not have been our “first black President”.
Is it possible that some of those who were interviewed gave wrong answer deliberately? Being asked such a simple question is insulting to the person being interviewed, because it implies that he might be too stupid to know the answer to it. That would be reason enough for some people to deliberately give the wrong answer, just to skew the results of the interview.
Further, a person being interviewed might ask himself if a serious question is being asked, or if a silly question is being asked in jest. Such a person might give the wrong answer just to “Play along with the game” so to speak.
People can’t be all that stupid…
heretic,
Part 1.
“People can’t be all that stupid…”
Really? Show me proof in a country that elected and then, after four years of his “leadership”, either reelected or did nothing to prevent the reelection of Barack bin Barack Hussein Al-sissy.
heretic,
Part 2.
Here’s a little more for you:
“Functional illiteracy in North America is epidemic. There are 7 million illiterate Americans. Another 27 million are unable to read well enough to complete a job application and 30 million can’t read a simple sentence.24 There are some 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation’s population is illiterate or barely literate—a figure that is growing by more than 2 million a year. A third of high-school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives, and neither do 42 percent of college graduates. In 2007, 80 percent of the families in the United States did not buy or read a book.25 And it is not much better beyond our borders. Canada has an illiterate and semiliterate population estimated at 42 percent of the whole, a proportion that mirrors that of the United States.26”
24 ABC News, Living in the Shadows: Illiteracy in America, Feb. 25, 2008
25 Statistics were obtained from the following sources: National Institute for literacy, National Center for Adult Literacy, The Literacy Company, U.S. Census Bureau
26 “Canada’s Shame,” The National, Canadian Broadcasting Company, May 24, 2006
*From: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, By Chris Hedges, Nation Books, 2009, p. 44
NHPollack
If someone insulted me by asking such a simple question, I would give them the wrong answer – as long as I could think of something amusing to say.
heretic, yes, they really CAN be that stupid! The LOONY LEFT has gone to great lengths dumbing down our kids in schools and colleges for DECADES to make sure they ARE, while continually telling them they are the smartest, BRIGHTEST generation EVER! Our public schools and universities have become nothing but liberal brainwashing centers and SHEEP FACTORIES, turning out HORDES of semi-literate SHEEP, many of whom can’t even name the current vice-President, much LESS tell you who we fought in the Revolution!
These sheep are too ignorant, ill-educated and untrained to function as independent adults, and so they are dependent on the government for handouts, and therefore will VOTE for the candidate promising the best handouts. Do you see how it works, now?
If it was just a FEW people in one interview such as the one above, i MIGHT agree, some may have just been willingly answering wrong just for fun.
BUT when we see time after time in the show, Watters world, stupid answers like this from the common person time and time again, its NOT just someone being ‘funny’. Its showing a dangerous issue of ignorance..
People ARE that stupid!!! Ever been at the check out counter when the price scanner breaks down and the 20 something moron behind the counter can’t figure out how to enter the price for an item manually? I have, and even had an instance when a kid couldn’t figure out how to make change for a five dollar bill!! I’ve met some on the side of the road with a broken down vintage Jaguar, just out of gas, didn’t know what the little dial with the arrow pointing to “E” that said PETROL meant! There are THOUSANDS out there prowling or streets as we speak…I lust HOPE we can turn this generation of total IDIOTS around before it’s too late!!
With how many schleps have been through the liberal indoctrination mills, its gonna take one massive effort to turn it around..
Not to beat a dead horse but yes people really can be that stupid. Schools no longer encourage common sense teaching only the socially acceptable dribble approve by the Fed. They don’t even teach kid cursive writing. I just want to know how they will sign their name to anything or will the government just do it for them.
chuckyb,
Nope, they’ll just have chips implanted and their entire lives will be controlled ala Pavlov and B. F. Skinner as well as all their “thoughts” monitored and their purchasing with their government slave allowance.
Our school system is producing what can be summed up as FOOLS! They do not have the ability to THINK, and most important, think for themselves.
Which is imo how the DoI and Democrats WANT it.. Fools are easier to keep controlled.
I have seen so many videos like this and it makes me cry and I fear for America’s future.
And what’s worse to me is tat its NOT just young college age adults that are showing this level of dumbness in many of the videos like this. Its Older folk too..
The last blonde who recited verbatim the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence gave me hope that our country just might be saved from the evils of Islam and communism.
I think we’ll need a lot MORE like her to have a hope of saving our country, wolfen. Otherwise, the dumbed-down sheep will simply outnumber and OUTVOTE them.
Unless we REVERSE the control of our entire educational system by the LOONY LEFT, I truly FEAR for this country as older generations who KNOW better and can see what is happening grow old and die off. Because when we are all gone, the LOONY LEFT will have NO OPPOSITION.
Wolfen244, take a look at the video again – the blonde is reciting not the opening of the Declaration, but the preamble to the US Constitution. Which, imho, is a much more important document than the Declaration, and kudoos to her for being able to recite it. Other than that, I agree with your sentiment – and with Donald Hoffart for pointing out how Califorinians vote overall.
I think this guy does this every year, as he posted a similar video last year. At least this year, an American could give him the right answer – last year, the only one was a foreign tourist.
Heck, i remember on of his older videos from iirc back in 2012/13 (can’t remember if it was him or Watters though) that asked dozens of people on the street if they know why we celebrate another holiday (can’t remember if it was vets day or remembrance day)… IIRC, only 4 people (3 foreign tourists and ONE american) got it.. the rest didn’t.
Wolfen244, and what percentage was she of the total interviewed? Kind of relates to the voting inclinations of Californians in general doesn’t it?
This is SO sad! Makes it easier to understand how an America-hating TRAITOR like Obama could get elected President TWICE! This is the result of DECADES of leftist liberal control of our schools and colleges. If we don’t root these destructive vermin OUT of our educational system and start teaching young Americans about their history and heritage of FREEDOM again, our country is doomed.
Nobody will have to STEAL freedom from these ignorant twits–they will GIVE IT AWAY to some glib CON-MAN and power-mad SOCIOPATH like Obama, just like they are ALREADY doing with their votes!
I’ve seen news stories where news guys went on college campuses with petitions to CANCEL freedom of speech–and the college TWITS enthusiastically signed them!
I remember that. Man did it make me want to publicly name and shame EVERYONE Of those kids who signed that petition, AND their parents..
I have been wondering how Obama ever got elected once, let alone TWICE. Now I think I have a good idea. All of these scatterbrains voted for him!
Well, yeah, them and the black people who only voted for him because he was BLACK. They’d have voted for him even if he was SATAN INCARNATE, as long as he was black. Oh, wait . . .
No Karl, it’s not the scatterbrains who voted for him that’s the problem as they were just doing what their little lizard brains dictated. It was the stupid, apathetic, lazy, greedy, incurious, cowardly OTCPUSA (Other Than Communist Party USA) aka Republican voters who couldn’t be bothered to get up off their butts and vote against him, to say nothing of those who couldn’t vote for Romney because, “he wasn’t Conservative enough”, “he was cruel to his dog”, “binders of women? yuk, yuk, yuk”, etc.
AND massive voter fraud, nhpollack. Illegals voting. Dead people voting. People voting multiple times in multiple precincts. Rigged voting machines. Don’t forget the voter fraud, nhpollack. I think that is the PRIMARY reason Obama won the second time. And I FEAR they have the same operation planned to put HILLARY over the top. That is, if Obama does not declare martial law and STOP the elections altogether!
Don’t forget all those who said “never Romney, hes mormon”
teabag,
I’m originally from Chicago and know ALL about voter fraud and that line about “Vote early and vote often” is not a laugh line. Didn’t Obama get more votes in Pennsylvania than there were registered voters in 2012?
Not sure about PA, but i know from Several friends who did work as poll workers in AZ and TX, that there were SEVERAL towns in both states which had well over 2000 more votes counted from some townships than they had LIVING bodies, and not all those living in those towns were even registered, let alone CAPABLE of voting…
Yet the left keeps saying there is no such thing as voter fraud. Yea right.
I am going to disagree with everyone as to the cause but not the result. I am white male 69 and a fairly far leftist, who almost always votes Dem. As there is no viable alternative. My son was taught the standard American patriotic line in school. There was no particular criticism of government policy. Relatively recent history was ignored due to time constraints He did not learn that Ethel Rosenberg was probably innocent or that a number of US diplomats thought after WWII that the US should support Ho Chi Minh. But he complained that most of the students in some of his classes didn’t participate and clearly weren’t interested. In addition due to the emphasis on testing a lot of school time is simply wasted preparing for one test or another. The teachers clearly were reluctant to do any boat rocking. This was a “good” suburban school district. We didn’t have a happy high school experience. The lack of knowledge of American history and government is simply horrible. They aren’t learning biased history they simply aren’t learning
You are WRONG paoldguy. I was in a college history class a few years ago with a group of those kids who were taught the “leftist” version of history. They ALL believed the Founding Fathers were no more than a bunch of EVIL, rich old white guys who grew RICH exploiting the labor of black slaves, and a lot of OTHER leftist garbage they’d been taught as “HISTORY.”
With all due respect, I think YOU are proof of exactly what we are talking about. Your snark about the “standard American patriot line” shows that you are ONE of those who has been brainwashed into hating his own country and regarding it as “evil”. We should have SUPPORTED Ho Chi Minh who callously murdered MILLIONS of his own countrymen? Ethel Rosenburg was NOT innocent. That is a LIBERAL LIE because they did not want Communist subversion in the US OUTED by the public conviction and execution of a COMMUNIST TRAITOR, so they immediately began the disinformation campaign claiming she was “innocent”.
Nobody claims the United States is perfect. But you show me ANY OTHER COUNTRY who has accomplished what the US has? Our form of government is unique in all the world–and because of the liberties it guaranteed to the American people, has achieved success beyond any other system EVER. So when you snark about “the standard American patriot line”, think about THAT.
teabag,
Just consider this the other 999 upticks I wanted to give you. By the by, do you know about the Venona Project and Papers?
Mark, making people look stupid even if he has to lead them into it and edit out the ones that actually know something, all in an effort to create this perception that our nation has gone over a cliff.
He occasionally finds one who can actually ANSWER the questions, Brian Wickins. I don’t think he has to “edit” to get enough IDIOTS to fill his allotted timeframe, as there are MORE THAN ENOUGH of them walking around that his chances of finding a LOT of them in a crowd on the beach are pretty good.
This Soylent Green should be deported; or better yet, just ground into cat food; they fulfill no aspect of humanity–useless hunks of gross protoplasm.
The ONLY way we can ensure our children are truly knowledgeable and up to date in schooling is to remove the liberal, obedient little Communists (or whatever name they now subscribe: Democrat, progressive, Leninist, Trotskyite, Alinsky-follower) who are using the Communist Manifesto to start subversion of America at the lowest levels….our children!
To this end, they gravitate to leadership roles, and eventually, infest our entire educational system! When THESE are ‘converted’ into dutiful little ‘yes-men’ their goal will be complete!
To fight this, and the ONLY way can WE legitimately can do it, is to ATTEND PTAs and school board meetings, RUN for school board membership, and LEGALLY evict those who would corrupt our youngsters’ minds! School boards hire, AND FIRE, superintendents, teachers, determine school curricula, and buy the books!
We need to STOP ‘revisionist’ history, long a fave for Communists’ regimes! And get back to allowing freedom of religion in our schools, including private prayer, not just teaching SOLELY Muslim rituals and the Koran, with NO mention of Christianity!
Even being on school boards, PTAs etc, won’t do much until and unless we can get rid of the Dept of Indoctrination!
mogul,
In addition to my other activities, I attended school board meetings. I’m an aggressive, persistent, in your face kind of guy, but I found the school board meetings an exercise in self abuse. That experience more than anything showed me how truly FUBAR things are.
NH Pollack: Note the other part where I said to run for the School Boards, and evict the commie boobs who mis-manage the districts, hire commie superintendents, and devise commie curriculum!
mogul,
I read your entire comment. I’m not interested in elected office and even if I were, I’m not particularly friendly and wouldn’t win any popularity contests which is essentially what elections are. I even looked up the term “charisma” and don’t have any, got a book on how to get it and it didn’t help. Chicks dig me though and so do felines. Whoops, I guess that was a redundancy.
You Need To be abel to Answer most of these Questions to get a
Voting License: And Not by Multiple Choice. Oral Test of at least of Seven answers:
Year of Claim
Month of Claim
First signer
Last signer
Fist State
Last State
Authors and Writers
Country from which we Claimed independence and why???
How long did the war last
Who wrote the Star spangled Banner
What context
What year.
Failure means you do Not vote for 4-1/2 years! So you miss at LEAST one
Presidential vote as well as all State and local…
What year did we Really prove our Freedom And World Status
and
on what body of water?
Year/month of claim?
First signer/last signer?? Is that in relation to the Declaration or the Constitution??
I didn’t need to watch the video, I had seen the Bill O’Reilly ‘Watters World’ special on Sunday night and most of those interviewed were clueless. It was a sad demonstration of what is taught in our institutions of ‘higher learning’! It was all I could do to not shout the correct answers at the screen because they wouldn’t hear me. In high school we had world history, American history, Pennsylvania history (I liv ehtere), and finally Problems of Democracy, the theory of government and why it is set up the way it is. There was also geography, although I no longer recognize some names of countries because they have changed, often several times since those days. But I keep up and see where bad decisions made thirty, forty or fifty years ago are still creating havoc in todays world.
These days, the watters world segments are some of my fave on the Factor..
I agree our education system leaves so much to be desired. But, my question is where the heck are the freakin’ parents? I guess they’re like the older guy that couldn’t even answer the questions! Not only should they not graduate from HS, they should spend a year in a 3rd world country! This just makes me heart sick!
IMO a lot of those outraged, do bring things up, but there’s not enough of a noise being raised to counter things yet.
Democrats want a world where only they and their guards have gun a world Hitler, Stalin and Mao would love. Of course most in government are surrounded by men with guns to keep the throngs from attacking them.Is hypocrite spelled correctly?
My wife and I celebrated by going to the town common to hear some speeches and patriotic music. The highlight was the reading of the Declaration of Independence. An enlightening part of it was the listing of the charges against King George, which were the reasons for the Revolution in the first place. Several people came up to me after to visit, and the consensus was that many of the items on the list of grievances could have easily been against Barack Obama.
Read the Declaration and you will see what we all observed about our current government. Pay special attention to the fact that King George was passing laws against the people with the people having no say in it, and the collecting of taxes that were sent off to be spent somewhere else.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the USA and am a veteran, just as the patriots loved their country, but we don’t like what it has become through the corrupt leadership. The people in 1776 were just about evenly split in three camps: For the Revolution, for staying with England, or don’t care one way or another. Many thousands of people moved to Canada, Maybe that’s why so many people in Canada today think that a 60% tax rate is OK.
Its looking more and more like we need those SAME sort of patriots to cleanse the US government..
nhpoolack– ….”read your entire comments…” Well,,, maybe you are JUST the kind of guy we are looking to have serve us. No special Charisma, No BS, No Front or funny business; just down right Citizen Representation; a Harry Truman kind of guys in some ways!!! ??? who tells the media…. ” leave me and my family the H3!! along!” as he did!
Rgr,
I remember Truman from when I was a wee sprout and I think he’s one of our greatest presidents, even though he was a Democrat, but in spite of his no nonsense personality, he was still kinda likable. I’ve even tried from time to time, but my wife says my “death ray stare” negates the smile. Maybe we could co-rule as good cop/bad cop?
You and Sheriff Joe and the one from up north ??? David??? I think we are working up a practical, functioning, Logical-thinking team. >> My teammate where I work is that kind of kind person: a rough, no-nonsense, speaks his mind, kind of guy,,, specially when provoked,,,, but,,, for a workmate, you can NOT beat him: a Marine….. not an X,,, they are Never X-Marines. He is funny when you earn his trust. He respects my beliefs, though we are pretty different, until it comes to country and family. Well, anyway, that is more than you asked for….. in fact, you didn’t ask.
Rgr,
We could be starting a trend. Here’s a verse from an old tune:
“Give me some men who are stout-hearted men,
Who will fight, for the right they adore,
Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men,
And I’ll soon give you ten thousand more.
Shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder,
They grow as they go to the fore.
Then there’s nothing in the world can halt or mar a plan,
When stout-hearted men can stick together man to man.”
…and no, I’m not into show tunes so don’t even go there. I may have heard it on “Your Hit Parade” when I was a kid in the ’50s.
Yeah, a former active duty jarhead friend of mine explained it to me; Marines are active duty, former active duty and retired. No Ex Marines.
Just because I didn’t ask, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t spout off. What you have to say is worthwhile and interesting.
P.S. Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.