America: The Fall of a Once Great Nation As United States citizens, students in public schools are required to profess their undying love and loyalty to what politicians want them to believe is the greatest nation in the world. Children are brought up to believe that being an American means being safe when walking the streets, having a house with a picket fence, earning a livable income for one’s family, and the possibility of world peace if all other nations would only listen to the US and their ways as a government. This type of thinking usually continues well into adulthood. Politicians running for President, or more often other political seats, use the American Dream as the lifestyle they will strive toward with their campaign ideas. The
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A once well-informed people have generally become strong believers in the term “ignorance is bliss.” Probably one of the most ignorant generation yet, with a very low percentage of people actually knowing what is really going in the government. Stephen Mazie discusses in his article “Why Are Americans So Ignorant?” that only about 6% of Americans know that the budget deficit for America has been shrinking since Obama took office. He also discusses the small grasp on reality that Americans have, especially when it comes to things such as money and government spending. Upon reading Maize’s article, one discovers that things in the history books aren’t as memorable to some citizens as they should be. Only 62% of Americans can name the vice president, a terrifying and true statistic. Citizens need to start taking a stand and searching for information themselves. They need to acknowledge the fact that neither the government nor the media will offer free information handouts, and they need to dig for information, even if it is uncomfortable to hear. The inability to face the reality of America, however, has led it’s citizens to some pretty bad leaders (Maize,
A once well-informed people have generally become strong believers in the term “ignorance is bliss.” Probably one of the most ignorant generation yet, with a very low percentage of people actually knowing what is really going in the government. Stephen Mazie discusses in his article “Why Are Americans So Ignorant?” that only about 6% of Americans know that the budget deficit for America has been shrinking since Obama took office. He also discusses the small grasp on reality that Americans have, especially when it comes to things such as money and government spending. Upon reading Maize’s article, one discovers that things in the history books aren’t as memorable to some citizens as they should be. Only 62% of Americans can name the vice president, a terrifying and true statistic. Citizens need to start taking a stand and searching for information themselves. They need to acknowledge the fact that neither the government nor the media will offer free information handouts, and they need to dig for information, even if it is uncomfortable to hear. The inability to face the reality of America, however, has led it’s citizens to some pretty bad leaders (Maize,