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Only 23% of American Voters Found Iran on the Map, etc

by The War Machine's School System
Believe it or not, only 23% of American voters can find Iran on the map, and the voters are the most educated sector of the population. See https://www.globalresearch.ca/only-23-american-voters-identify-iran-world-map/5700325
The U.S.
Canada
Spain
Russia
Brazil
Australia
The middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Then there's the support of Trump's targeted assassination of Soleimani. The above article claims 47% supported this war crime. As of January 6, less than 1 week after this war crime, 43% of Americans thought it was a good idea. See https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-soleimani-airstrike-poll_n_5e12c040e4b0b2520d23f372

This is how a moron president can still sit in office with 62 million people having voted for him. His idiocies in his tweets match the average American's idiocies in the English language. Good examples are: using who's which means who is or who has for the possessive pronoun, whose; stating I have went somewhere instead of I have gone somewhere; stating this is off of something instead of stating this is from something; and assuming that the verb to be takes an object, resulting in such incorrect English as stating it is her instead of it is she. This is a nation that does not read, and neither does its president. A war machine thrives on such ignorance and contempt for books.

Unlike this writer, the average American, including the American voters (about half the adult population in this country never votes), know all about all the movie stars, the football players, the latest rock and roll stars, ad nauseum.
by The War Machine's School System
Apparently the publishing did not work so well. The list of countries refers to the locations where 77% of American voters believe Iran is. I am surprised they did not list Iran as the autobiography of a runner (I ran)!
by blues
It is vain and absurd to say that Americans are negligent if the have no idea where Iran is. Ordinary Americans have zero (0) power to influence the two-in-one party system. They have no say at all, so they would be foolish to waste their energy to learn anything about the foreign policies that imperial oligarchs are perpetrating.

The imperial oligarchs are busy here at home with their hundreds of million dollar fronted NGOs promoting 'ranked choice voting', which has been historically proven to be even more dis-empowering than the dreadful 'choose-one' system we have now. We could have ranked sum voting or simple score voting, which would actually empower the common people. But there just seems to be no 'charity' funding to support those methods, for some odd reason.
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