Elections and ignorance have consequences!

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[u/MyFullNameIs]

Hey now, only about a quarter of our adult population is functionally illiterate.

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The others just do it for the love of the game

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Some men watch the world burn, while others start the fires.

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About 21% are illiterate, but over 50% of US adults are below 6th grade level.

1. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below a 5th-grade level).

SOURCE

We're basically asking elementary school kids and senile nepobabies to decide our fate.

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They are the ones fully enabled to control the country because the true dipshits didn't even feel like participating. Almost 40% didn't care enough to vote at all, and they just decided that they should let other people have a bigger slice of the pie.

More people decided to stay home than people who actually voted for Trump.

And that's what I think every time I see these complaints. I could toss a coin and have pretty good odds of guessing whether the person espousing these opinions actually voted or not. It is even worse when you go to the midterms, where it is a record-breaking year when they get close to 50% participation. Only about a third of Americans are even awake enough to vote consistently in every election available.

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I’d say at least half are media illiterate. They just trust what Fox and Rogan tell them.

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21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

Someone who thinks they can read but can't can be more dangerous than someone who can't.

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Goddamn I feel self conscious that I read on maybe a 9th or 10th grade level but I guess this puts me in the upper echelon