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Have American politicians treated voters as less intelligent than they are?

Discussion in 'Education' started by James Fielder, Jun 15, 2017.

  1. James Fielder

    James Fielder New Member

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    I wish I could answer that in the affirmative. I really do.

    In practice, what I hear from those voters is often almost unimaginably clueless. How could it not be, since only 23% say they read a daily newspaper?

    Television news isn’t sufficient to confer understanding of the issues even when it’s non-partisan — in a poll, MSNBC and Fox viewers knew less than people who watch no news at all, because they’d been fed misinformation. And the Internet and social media are best compared to the town dump — yeah, there’s probably a working computer somewhere, but mostly useless trash. I would love to hear your thoughts!
     

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