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Fifty percent of People in america can name four people from “The Simpsons,” but only two out of five can name all three branches of the government. No more than one in seven can find Iraq on the map. Just how stupid are we? Really stupid.
In Just How Stupid Are We?, best-selling publisher Rick Shenkman requires goal at our great countrywide piety: the knowledge of the American people. American democracy is as direct as it’s ever before been—but voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power. At once a robust indictment of voter apathy and political indifference, Just How Stupid Are We? also provides concrete proposals for reforming our companies—the federal government, the media, civic organizations, political people—to make them work better for the American people. But first, Shenkman argues, we should reform ourselves.