The most recent poll of the Pew Research Center found that 18 percent of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim. After he got into the controversy about the mosque close to the World Trade Center site, that number jumped to 24 percent.
Sizable numbers of Americans believe that NASA never put a man on the moon. They believe it was staged by Hollywood.
Many people believe the Bush Administration was behind the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Just as many people believe Saddam Hussein actually had weapons of mass destruction.
So there are all kinds of goofy ideas floating around out there. These people are just not well informed and are responding to superficial cues from the mass media. They don't do their own thinking and don't investigate the facts.
There's not a thing that can be done about it. They choose to remain ignorant.
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3 comments:
Ignorant is the KEY word here, Margie, and you are soooooo right! Thanks for a great post!
Sylvia
Thanks, Sylvia.
And in these cases ignorance is definitely not bliss.
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