• Scubus@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    7 hours ago

    Admittedly history is my weakest subject, but the only one applicable to me is the gettysberg. Was it lincoln?

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    19 hours ago

    It’s worse than it sounds.

    Of the people who can name the three branches of government, even fewer actually understand how they work.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      13 hours ago

      It’s worse than that. When I was active duty, I got a free poster that shows that 3 branches of government and put it up in the office. We fell under the executive branch after all. I figured the people that support and defend the constitution might want to know about it.

      One of my Marines was like, oh is that how it works. I’m not sure what we teach the youth anymore, but it’s not enough.

      The poster looked like this one.

      https://diyhomeschooler.com/3-branches-of-government-poster-free/

      • Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 hours ago

        I feel like I remember learning about the branches of government in like 3rd grade, but I only really remember Executive and Judicial.

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
    5·
    18 hours ago

    If that’s even remotely true, then I can see how things have turned out the way they have. A populous that understands damn near nothing about the world around them is simply not prepared to fight the ever increasing amount of disinformation and scapegoating thrown at them by those with malicious motives

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    31·
    18 hours ago

    33% of people have an IQ lower than 90. 100 is the average. The average human is already pretty stupid.