This is pure gold. Who does not believe in the dummying down of America? Public education does little more than indoctrinate. Our higher education system, once the envy of the world, has become a vast network of propagation. Things like facts and truth and verifiability just don't matter anymore.
But then our faith in the average person is restored with this video. These are just run of the mill cheeseheads. Wisconsinites who are appallingly average in appearance.Is there anything distinctive about these people? Anything at all?
But then, a speaker from the floor drops the name of Paul Krugman and the house breaks out in a fit of spontaneous laughter. They know of Krugman and they instantly express their opinion of him. We don't see the speaker but his voice suggests that he is taken aback by the crowd's reaction.
If you brought up say, John Kenneth Galbraith, at a town hall meeting in 1968, you would draw a lot of blank stares. Times have changed. In some ways, they have changed for the better.
CUT TO 2:15 TO SEE THE AUDIENCE'S REACTION
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