There is something wrong with our young people. Seriously wrong.

First Amendment No Big Deal, Students Say
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _amendment

good. these kids should be forced to listen to Autograph for six months in a locked closet and then tell us what they think about restricted free speech.

I have faith in Chuck Darwin's theories.

If I were a moderator, I would delete this post.

I left HS unable to find Missouri on a map.

fortunately some of those kids will go to college and get indoctrinated in liberal thinking - then move to the cities that are already voting democrat - and nothing changes.

meh

Woh! According to this survey most human beings are mindless idiots with a 'I'm alright Jack' attitude to life and society.

Who knew?

amen

[quote="rparis74"]then move to the cities that are already voting democrat - and nothing changes.[quote]

that's the saddest bit about the whole thing. that so much of america is in fact, doomed.

looking at one of those by county electoral maps and seeing the bastions of blue in the urban areas and then watching the color slowly leak towards ignorance as you get closer to a Wal-Mart is really devastating.

well - the overall trend is movement towards urban/suburban areas so maybe as that happens, some of this dogmatic pseudo-Christian moralizing will diminish when country folk start living next door to homosexshuls and realize they aren't actually the devil's spawn.

Yer not missin' anything.

Actually this post is kind of timely as I've been reading lots of old classics-Fahrenheit 451

You're just jealous because I'm a cyborg.

I don't find this particularly surprising, given that their parents, grandparents and neighbors are probably in agreement.

I'm not sure that this is indicative of a downhill slide in the educational background and perspective of Americans and the knowledge of their own unique system of government.

Hell, in 2000, there were plenty of people supporting either Bush or Gore who had little to no grasp of the Electoral College's history or process of determining the winner of the Presidential race.

Many like to latch on to claims of Bush's illegimate war, but only muster a comparison to Vietnam, rather than a more jingoistic parallel waged against Spain by President McKinley in 1898, with help from Rupert Mur--wait, it was William Randolph Hearst. Detractors today show a limited historical view when they fail to mention these parallels, while the readers of Mr. Hearsts papers probably weren't fluent in Constitutional history either.

The same shallow view of history applies to all the proslytizers claiming that "American has never been this divided" or "This is the most important election in history." Considering we fought a war amongst ourselves surely outweighs two political and patriotic lightweights duking it out over who served and who didn't or who lied and who flip-flopped.

And before that Civil War, let's not forget how divided the country must have been to necessitate the Two Missouri Compromises of 1820, The Great Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. But for those debates, we owe Messrs. Clay, Webster and Calhoun, not the common frontier folk, who were likely just as ignorant on weighty Constitutional matters as people are today.

I believe that we are probably more educated as a people than we were 100-150 years ago. I do believe that many Americans could benefit from learning more about history, the Constitution and how and why the government is structured the way it is.

I do not believe that these polling numbers would necessarily diverge from similar questions posed to a similar sample of Americans from different periods in the past 228 years.

These are average people. Average people are by definition unextraordinary. Thankfully, we had Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson and Lincoln to share their wisdom with the average people of this country.

Maybe it's the jeans they wear (honestly, I still don't get the thin girl but squeezing her ass in these retro jeans which I don't see why people find in becoming (maybe that's me, but give me a shapely woman in Levis and I'm all over it or would pretend to be in my fantasy world).. or the guy whose crotch is around his knees... especially the suburban kid with all the parental support in the world... wtf) .. or the tatoos they get "to be different than everyone else which all their friends have.... If I had a dime for how these idiots will feel in 5 or so years when they want that self indentifying tatoo, that all their friends have and they figure out it wasn't unique but following the fashion herd off a cliff, I might be on to something. Any stocks out there on tatoo removal? Particularly interested in ass removal tatoos. I find it funny that fashion will undoubtedly swing back to a more professional look soon and these people will be taking sand paper to their ass and threatening their kids with death if they are so stupid to get a tatoo just because their friends did. I wonder if they'll tell their kids that sucking cock isn't sex?

Anyway, this thread doesn't surprise me. It's call rebelling. Lots of parents are left over hippies from the 60's and 70's and the kids realize they are morons. Studies have been done of college students that say they are more conservative on the whole than they've been since before Viet Nam and professors are up in arms about it. fucking hillarious I say.

conservative to the point of rejecting the Constitution? Either kids these days are becoming Hobbesian, or, they're just becoming deluded.

I'm not sure students are more "conservative" than they are stupid, but I will grant you the "kids rebelling" point I suppose. Cos anti-rights is fucking hardcore.

If I were a moderator, I'd scratch my ass right now.

























Ahh.

I'm putting you on suicide watch, Chase. Buck up camper.

Also, Corey is a genius.

I think its funny that folks who are more than willing to give up Amendments 1 and 4 get up in arms about number 2. No pun intended.