The Game Show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" originally aired on February 27, 2007. The questions, clever and provocative by definition, convey the intended answer within the question itself: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? The obvious conclusion, when we witness adult contestants being stumped by questions that should be easily answerable by an average 5th grader, highlights the ignorance not only of the individual contestant - but arguably of America at large.
The questions are largely designed to expose what would have been considered basic information readily known by an average American 5th Grader just a couple of decades ago. Questions such as:
Which President couldn't tell a lie about chopping down a cherry tree?
What came first, the American Civil War or World War I?
What is America's largest city?
The patent, sad, humorous punch line to the answers is that the majority of America's adult population is ignorant about even the most fundamental and pedestrian facts about their own country.
Due to its popularity, the Game Show has been supplemented by News and Late-Night Talk Show segments in which interviewers venture out to random places and ask similar types of questions. To emphasize the consistent ignorance of facts that a 5th Grader should know, these segments have often taken place on “elite” college campuses, where, even there, the ignorance of basic elemental knowledge is common.
When Benjamin Franklin was asked at the Constitutional Convention what form of government he would prefer, he replied, "A Republic if you can keep it." This question remains as relevant today as it was when raised by the good doctor in 1787. How do you keep a free Constitutional Republic alive that preserves America and Americans’ Freedom, Sovereignty, and Power, when there is widespread ignorance, historical illiteracy of our institutions, and a moral compass that was once guided and followed by both religious and not religiously affiliated Americans called the Ten Commandments?
The collective ignorance of our American citizenry, regarding everything from basic literacy to essential American history (except for the ugly parts - which are very well taught in our schools), has left America with an open door to those whose exclusive goal is to destroy our Constitutional Republic and replace it with a dystopian Marxist form of governance, where the state will sole control over our thinking, voting, family life, and national destiny.
Currently, the Internet and Social Media have become the greatest mass educator of our children, while parents and the family unit increasingly have little to no influence on or in their children's lives or minds. The Left has targeted the destruction of the nuclear family as evidenced by the removal of parental authority for parents to be informed of their children being groomed by their schools to choose another gender along with other pernicious sexual grooming practices.
The humor in a Game Show contestant being dumber than a 5th grader is no longer an amusing spoof, but a window into the destruction of our Constitutional Republic, all that it stands for, and all the potential it creates for every American.
Ignorance isn't bliss… It’s tragedy.
Was it George Washington who couldn’t tell a lie about the cherry tree? Or am I dumber than a 5th Grader?
-Emes