Percentage of American Idiots

I hate how the media is breathlessly reporting that EIGHTEEN PERCENT of Americans now believe that the president is a Muslim.

First off, I realize that the same eighteen percent... plus about eighty per cent more... don't know what's in our Constitution and can't be forced to read it, but it says that NO office holder shall be subjected to a religious test. In other words, even if the president WERE a Muslim, which he's clearly not, it wouldn't matter.

Second off...

Eight percent of Americans... or almost half as many as believe the president's a Muslim... believe that Elvis is alive.

Twenty-two percent of Americans believe in Ghosts.

As many as thirty-six percent believe that Mr. Bush orchestrated 9/11. Seriously overestimating the man, in my opinion.

Thirty-four percent of Americans “believe” in UFO's. I qualify that because the term “UFO” has lost all of it's real meaning. If you see something flying that you can't identify, it is, BY DEFINITION, a UFO. They clearly exist. That's like asking if people believe in rocks. I interpret this as meaning that thirty-four percent of Americans believe that the Earth is routinely being visited by extra-terrestrial craft.

Six percent of Americans believe that the moon landing was faked. Bear in mind, as you read that statistic, that, if you have a powerful enough telescope, you can actually SEE the crap that we left up there.

Thirty-nine percent of Americans “believe” in evolution. I qualify that again, this time because you cannot believe or disbelieve a scientific theory – you can either accept or reject the proofs. So I have to assume that correct wording for this would be “thirty-nine percent of Americans reject the proofs of Darwinian evolution”.

A whopping forty-four percent of Americans believe that the Biblical creation story... as impossible as it is... is literally true.

Twenty percent of Americans... can't locate America on a map. How sad is that. (I remember a related poll that I saw while living in Alaska taken among graduates of some college... eight percent of them thought that Alaska was another planet.)

Twenty percent of Americans don't know WHO we declared independence from in 1776.

The same percentage... probably the same PEOPLE... think that Bush was a “great” president.

Twenty percent of Americans believe that the sun revolves around the Earth.

Twenty percent of Americans... probably twenty percent of human beings in any age... believe that “the apocalypse” will happen in their lifetime. Also note that the definition of “the apocalypse” has changed over the ages. Currently it is the apocalypse as spelled out in the last book of the Bible, the Revelation to Saint John the Divine.

Twenty percent of Americans believe that marijuana is more harmful than alcohol. I can't help but wonder how many of these people actually KNOW someone who has been harmed by pot? I know a handful... versus hundreds that I know or THOUSANDS that I know OF who have been harmed by alcohol or its effects.

Twenty percent of Americans believe that the lottery, despite its odds of one in MILLIONS, is a sound financial “investment”.

Do you get what I'm saying here? One in five Americans will believe any idiotic thing that you tell them. That doesn't make it true, and it DEFINITELY doesn't make it NEWS.

Peace.

Rev. Randal