People in Washington think regular Americans are dumb as shit - Polidicks

Kelso smells

[QUOTE=Del91;46025118]Kelso smells[/QUOTE] Indeed it does. Our mills (Longview's mills, same thing basically) are [I]awful[/I]. I'm thankful to be (hopefully) moving up into the hills a bit where it won't be so stinky.

No surprise. People in the states are ignorant for many reasons. The biggest is just that there is no drive to be smart. Smartness is just something that isn't held in high regard. I think it is a cultural thing, especially in regards to education. Our parent's generation and their parents generation could easily acquire jobs with little more than a High School education, so of course it is viewed as useless. They were never taught higher-level education, so they don't place an importance on it. Thus, many kids don't go to college, many kids [I]do[/I] go to college but treat it like a joke and never complete it, and many kids don't even value high school as anything other than a stepping stone. But that is just education. This article is more about ignorance in general, and people in the US are [I]excessively[/I] ignorant. America has this self-centered, narcissistic view in which the only important things happen in America or involve America, and everything else doesn't matter. America might as well be the only fucking country on earth for the way most people here act. And then, as the article shows, it gets worse. Even though most people are so absorbed with this fucking country, nobody here [I]knows a damn thing about it.[/I] I am lucky to have parents who are informed (my mom in particular; she works for a big hospital as a coder, so she knows a lot of ins-and-outs of the healthcare system that I would have never known about unless she told me), but many people do not. Most of this is laziness. It is far easier to blame all of your problems on the gubment rather than carefully research a problem and find all the facets of it failure. Some of it is also just apathy. Most kids my age just want to party and have fun and not worry about shit like government, and I can hardly blame them. It is hair-pulling and yet we as citizens have very little we can do about the situation. Adults are apathetic because of that: it is unnecessary stress because, in the end, the government is a vast, twisted, tangled, inefficient, corrupt, despicable, bureaucratic nightmare that the voters actually have very little say in. Politics is also like religion or sexual orientation or other things; you don't talk about it unless asked (or unless your a nut who shoves their views on everyone, regardless of what side you take). Nobody talks about it because all it does it make people mad, and god help you if a Republican and a Democrat end up discussing politics anywhere together. People are so adamant and zealous about it that I have seen relationships ruined, friendships broken, and fights started just over it.

[QUOTE=hippowombat;46023362]Come on up to Kelso and tell me how insignificant Vancouver is ;)[/QUOTE] lol you guys think you live in insignificant cities, how cute