First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish. [More]Truth from Pravda? It's like I told Kurt Hofmann in an email the other day, "It's like somewhere in my life someone switched planets on me when I wasn't looking."
This one is quickly making the rounds thanks to Drudge, and a lot of you have sent it to me. I raise a flag of caution.
While I agree with the sentiment expressed, I think it needs to be filtered through healthy skepticism about the messenger and his motives. And we must never forget that not all of us fall under this indictment.