Losing faith in the voters

Someone said that the nation could survive a president like Obama, but it may not survive a nation of people who would vote for someone like him. This article describes a crisis in Canada and America evolving from the ignorance of the electorate.

Which leaves us with the problem of an electorate that cannot think rationally, that is impervious to common sense, that has little or no knowledge of civics and history, that instinctively swallows the junk food the media feeds it and that is incapable of or resistant to the simple practice of fact checking that the Internet had made instantly available. As Virginia Postrel says in The Future and Its Enemies, “we rarely realize how much knowledge we have access to”; nevertheless, we “fall prey to statist rhetoric that promises to dumb down the world.” We know that the younger, ostensibly educated generation has become a lost cause, thanks to the re-education camps our universities have become. As David Risselada writes in Freedom Outpost, “We are at the point now that many people in the younger generations simply have no idea about the true history of our country, or the meaning of her constitution because the left has been in firm control of nearly every institution we have held dear, for decades.