Americans don't know their rights and that's no accident. A recent survey showed that 40% of respondents could not identify even one freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment. Ignorant people are more easily led, misled, or cheated. If you know nothing about cars, an unscrupulous mechanic will sell you blinker fluid. If you know nothing of economics, you might be convinced that a $15 minimum wage won't lead to higher unemployment. If you know nothing of the Constitution, you might accept that Freedom of Speech can be limited when it is 'hate' speech.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people
John Adams
Educate and inform the whole mass of people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Ignorant people can be easily molded. An astonishing number of young people have embraced socialism, utterly oblivious that it always fails and leads to mass poverty like we see in Venezuela. The government education system has gutted history and civics. This survey shows the level of 'success' that has been achieved in producing misinformed citizens who don't know they are being taken for a ride.
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