American Dissident Voices for November 29, 2008
The Latest Survey of Ignorance
By Erich Gliebe

Hello, and welcome back this week's edition of American Dissident
Voices, the Internet radio program of North America's foremost
racialist organization, the National Alliance. I'm your host and
the Chairman of the Alliance, Erich Gliebe.

Last week, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute released their
third survey in three years showing that Americans are civically
illiterate and historically ignorant. The random sample of 2,508
Americans, ranging from people without high school diplomas to
those with advanced degrees, showed only a minimal difference
between the under-schooled and the well-schooled. Even Harvard
seniors embarrassed themselves, scoring only 69.56 on the test, a
D+. According to the report, the average score of those who ended
their schooling with a bachelor's degree is 57 percent, or an
"F." This is only 13 points higher than those whose schooling
ended with a high school diploma.

Considering the results, you might think the test must be really
hard! Well, think again. First of all the test is multiple
choice. Even some vague recognition should have helped most
test-takers, but apparently it didn't. Looking at the results, we
find that Americans do not know that Thomas Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of Independence, or that the inalienable rights
listed there are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Americans do not know that the first ten amendments to the
Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. Americans do not know
that Woodrow Wilson was president during World War I, or that
Franklin Roosevelt was president during the Great Depression.
They do not know that Roosevelt's 1933 series of government
programs is called The New Deal. To top it off, Americans -- even
on a multiple choice test -- do not know that the three branches
of U.S. government are the executive, judicial, and legislative
branches. Only 21 percent of Americans recognized a famous phrase
by Abraham Lincoln as coming from the Gettysburg Address, and
only 24 percent knew that the First Amendment prohibits the
establishment of an official religion. Oh, but fifty-six percent
knew that Paula Abdul is one of three judges on the American Idol
television show!

Now here is the final kicker: "Elected officials score lower than
the general public."

So what conclusions can we draw from this survey? I think we can
conclude the following:
The years that people spend in school don't have much effect on
people's overall civic literacy or historical knowledge. For
decades, tax dollars spent on schools have increased as test
scores have gone down. Still, schools somehow successfully plead
for more money to fix the problem. Other nations spend a fraction
of what we spend on schooling and outscore us at every turn on
international tests. As a result, other countries are more
nationalistic, more skilled, and more determined to succeed in
the world than we are. And the effects of this are showing.
Unfortunately for us, as that largely forgotten fellow Thomas
Jefferson once wrote, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and
free . . . it expects what never was and never will be."

Today, Americans seem to think that the government will run
things without their informed input. If that is what Americans
want, then they don't want a democracy. They simply want to vote
every few years for those who will tell them what is what. As
long as Americans have jobs and free choice of which cable
television channels to order, then Americans are complacent and
satisfied. History has shown, however, that complacency and an
over-emphasis on material pleasures lead to social and political
deterioration -- and eventually to destruction. Scores on the ISI
survey indicate that Americans have been, and still are, in the
complacent, materialistic mode that is sweeping our country to
social and economic destruction. Americans just don't know much
about the history of our nation and the race that built it.
Unfortunately, if people don't know where our nation and people
have been, they can't understand where we are. If they don't
understand where we are, then they can't know where we are going
or where we should go.

Since both the ignorant and informed choose to vote, on what
basis do they vote? Let's look at our recently held national
election. A survey of Obama voters showed that most could not
identify Obama's friend William Ayers, an unapologetic Sixties
radical who founded the Weather Underground and carried out
bombings of government facilities. Of course, the
Jewish-dominated media reported very little about Ayers. Nor
could Obama voters answer the same kinds of questions that the
ISI asked of the American people. So why did they vote for Obama?
Because they wanted change. Of course they wanted change! That is
what the Jewish controlled news and entertainment media told them
they should want. We have never had an unbiased news media, but
in the past the media at least occasionally tried to appear
unbiased. In the last election, the media was unapologetically in
the tank for Obama. Everyone admits this, even commentators from
the Left who could be counted on to defend the media.

All right, but were McCain voters any better informed than Obama
voters? We don't know because nobody surveyed them. I would
guess, however, that if the ISI survey is accurate, both sides
voted out of relative ignorance. Therefore, American's lack of
civic literacy and historical knowledge makes them pawns of
whoever can produce the slickest campaign and the most attractive
candidates. None of this bodes well for America's future.

If Americans don't know about civics or history, what do they
know about? Even a cursory look at the last fifty years of
American schooling and entertainment media suggests that
Americans know quite a bit about ephemeral popular culture. What
they don't know much about are the eternal truths upon which our
nation and culture is based. But why did schools stop teaching
this foundation? The answer to this question is too complex for
an adequate answer here. But I'll give you a few fundamental
reasons. First of all, White guilt and a growing non-White
population have goaded and indoctrinated teachers into dispensing
with Western Culture, which was created by so-called "dead, White
males." According to the schools and our media, those damned
White males were nothing more than imperialistic, patriarchal
bigots who oppressed everyone whose paths they crossed. So to
hell with them. This is the Age of Aquarius, and the Mulatto
Messiah will lead us all to the Promised Land.

Out with elitists like Plato and Aristotle. Out with slave
holders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Out with
male chauvinist pigs like Friedrich Nietzsche. Out with
Shakespeare, too. Out with all of them. Today we teach the young
to be multicultural, which means we must obliterate White Western
Culture and elevate all other races and cultures to a status
superior to that of history's bigots. Today we teach civics and
history from the standpoint of such cultural giants as Malcolm X,
Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Susan B. Anthony, and
Eleanor Roosevelt. We dwell on the falsehood of the Holocaust
story, which claims that White German culture destroyed six
million Jews during World War II, which is why America must now
financially and economically support Jews and the State of
Israel. Yes, White American students must now pay for the sins of
their fathers by handing America over to Blacks, Jews, and
mestizos. The schools encourage White Americans to bow their
heads in shame and fit in with the "new majority" by proclaiming
other cultures superior to their own.

Let me state one thing at this point as strongly as I can. White
Western Culture has nothing to be ashamed of. White Western
Culture has done more to elevate humankind, including non-Whites,
than any other culture in world history. Still, we sit by and let
the schools and news media make us all ignorant of our great
heritage. Young White people cannot be expected to stand up and
support their own great cultural heritage if they know nothing
positive about it. That is, of course, what the destroyers of our
school system have wanted and still work for.

The enemies of White Western Culture and the enemies of our race
are winning the culture war largely because they have taken
control of our schools from kindergarten to the university. The
enemy is strong, vital, and determined to win. White people in
Western Culture have not been vigilant. They are now complacent
and steeped in materialism. They have not been inspired to fight
for the best that human beings have ever produced. Today, most
White Americans are too ignorant to know what they should be
fighting for. The real war is a spiritual war. So what can White
Americans do to reverse this tide?

First of all, numbers matter, and the Jews, non-Whites,
homosexuals, egalitarians, etc. have many organizations
supporting them. If you want to fight on the side of White
Western Culture and if you want to stand for the values that made
Europe and America great, then join and work for the goals of the
National Alliance. Nothing you can do on the present scene can be
of greater benefit. If you are already an Alliance member, get
involved with your local schools and educate the ignorant parents
who are sacrificing their children on the altars of
multiculturalism and White guilt. Examine the textbooks being
used, and question the teachers who teach your children.
Homeschooling is also an option. Don't back down when opponents
call you a bigot. Know enough about the culture you defend to be
an effective advocate for the values you hold. Don't be one of
the people who would flunk the ISI survey. This is a war that we
must win. If we lose, the results will be catastrophic to our
race, to our culture, and ultimately to the world.

Now one final note; with the Holidays approaching, be sure to
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I'm Erich Gliebe, and thanks for being with me again today.
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