[Inverse]

Strangely enough that pretty much IS the best thing we can do (keep the country running).

On the other hand I would like to think that I am smart enough to pull that off even if I was told the truth. So I do understand and agree with your fustration.

[Don Joe]

Not frustration so much as sadness -- sadness for a nation that has fallen so far, so fast. A century ago -- even less, in some cases -- someone with an eighth grade education had more real knowledge than a typical college grad today. More history, more math, more philosophy, more understanding of civics (as the founders intended, not this baloney about "our 'democracy'")... I suspect an average 8th grader from that era had more real knowledge, working smarts, then most college professors today.