22 Replies to “Happy Freedom From History Day”

  1. Can a free Republic, based on the prospect that ‘We the People’ are the ultimate caretakers of their own ‘State of the Union’ survive this kind of ignorance?
    I don’t think it can. Especially if these people mindlessly exercise their voting franchise, which they do not deserve to have.
    I think the Republic already died and it’s just laying around stinking and decomposing more every day.

  2. That’s why we call them LIV’s (low Information Voters)……
    Maybe inbreeding………

  3. I wanted to punch Mr. Ramadan in the face. Clearly his priorities lie elsewhere and its not with America or the free world.

  4. Everything will be OK. We have 65,000 new children here, eagerly waiting to bring America
    back. They are willing and able to restore the American Dream. They got a big dose of encouragement
    yesterday when Sheila Jackson Lee gave out 3,000 lollipops.

  5. Obamba’s “AmericKa”, dumb, dumb, and dumber.
    Where’s your Obamba-phone tonight?

  6. It is embarrassing, and shocking, that I knew the answers and most of them didn’t. How long can a country exist without even a meager knowledge of these things. Sadly, I wonder how many Canadian youth could answer similar questions on our own history?

  8. I agree with Larry. Appalling as their ignorance may be, I wonder how many Canadian kids could answer the same question posed about July 1st?

  9. I can almost guarantee that Canadians wouldn’t fare much better. A survey I saw couple of years ago showed over 70 % did not even know the words to our national anthem or who John A McDonald was. History lessons have been replaced by s*x ed. and how gay one can be.

  10. Would love to see a holiday in February called Macdonald-Laurier or Macdonald-Cartier Day to remind us of our history. Asked Jason Kenney once why we shouldn’t have such a holiday in the long period between New Year’s and Easter and he said we couldn’t afford the decrease in productivity of losing another day of work (please no Flag Day or Family Day or some other generic name).

  11. Let’s not be too hard on our American cousins for eating revisionist crap, you could get the same, if not more

  12. “I can almost guarantee that Canadians wouldn’t fare much better.”
    And it’s not just Canadians and Americans either.
    Ignorance of basic civics seems almost endemic these days. I’ve encountered clueless “citoyens” in France on 14 July who didn’t really know what it was actually all about, resulting in an impromptu history lesson on the French Revolution and the meaning of La Marseillaise from, er, me – a Canadian.

  14. Let’s not be too hard on our American cousins for eating revisionist crap, you could get the same ignorant answers about Dominion day here, if not more so – particularly Kanada’s undisputed new zombie capital – mOrontario.

  15. Relax.
    As Henry Ford said: History is Bunk.
    Just read a piece predicting that, in time, Obama will be seen as one of the greats as history is written overwhelmingly by leftist academicians. If he fails it will be seen that the country disappointed the Great Man; that the country let him down.
    Recall, the now god-like Lincoln was justifiably reviled in his own day.
    So if these BBQ celebrants don’t know the lies, so what.
    As some purist libertarians have it, the first American coup d’état was the constitution.
    In time the border chaos will be recast as Selma! A non resident civil rights victory.
    The above is mostly sincere with a tinge of mischief and should be read as an Excessive Earnestness Alert.

  17. I can’t imagine what it must be like to go through life that ignorant of the world around you.

  18. I really wished each of the no-nothings were asked who they voted for, or supported, in the past 2 elections. Would anyone be surprised if 100% of them were Obama fan-boys and fan-girls?!? 🙁

  19. “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
    – Cicero

  20. Oh, good Lord! However one can easily make bad things seem worse by culling out those with
    the correct answer leaving the dolts seeming to represent the masses. Well I hope that is the case but I fear mass ignorance is commonplace. Did anybody(other than the 65 year old) actually attended an American high school?

  21. Opening line from the interviewer.
    “I have a few questions to ask you. The first one is really, really hard. But then the questions get easier.”
    Give those U.S. teachers a raise. They’ve done a great job haven’t they?
    Boy, are they ever cooked.

  22. Honestly, when I talk to young people I am impressed with how much they know, not how ignorant they are. I do not know what happened here, I have no idea how this is edited. But by way of example, I asked a young waiter in full dreadlocks if he knew who designed the St.Louis arch and to my great surprise he answered without hesitation, “Eero Saarinen.” I know this only from crossword puzzles. He stunned me with his alacrity and astuteness. But then I asked, did you know his father was also an architect? He said no. “Really?” Another crossword answer “Eliel” good for all those lovely vowels crammed together.
    In another instance I asked a young woman of, oh, I would say twenty-five years of age or so, who the first president of the United States was and she correctly answered the 8 presidents preceding George Washington who was first following the U.S. Constitution. Now that was impressive.
    I’ve asked young people who John Brown was and his significance, and they answer correctly.
    I’ve asked young people what the Whiskey Rebellion was about and they answer correctly.
    I’ve asked who is on Mt. Rushmore and they answer correctly, I ask who carved it and they answer correctly.
    I realize it’s axiomatic, and I do realize there are lot of dumb asses out there, but I am heartened that young people are so interesting, so engaged, and so smart.
    This video is interesting. But I believe I could contrive another more interesting video, one that does young people justice.

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