Reply #36: Many here might be smart

[lapfog_1]

but I see that the education system is failing us again.

They haven't taken any basic courses on civil rights (Bill of Rights, for example).

I remember in college (so many years ago) that there was a survey of people (nation wide) where the questions where of the form...

"Do you believe that people SHOULD BE GIVEN the right to XXX"? (where XXX was one of the rights in the Bill of Rights)

It was phrased that way to make it appear that people didn't have XXX now...

Something like 58 percent of the people indicated that they should NOT be granted ANY of the rights asked about.

58 percent.

I joined the ACLU right after that and have paid my dues to them every year since.

I just thought DU would have more people like me and less of the 58 percent.