On Independence Day this year, the NPR Twitter
account decided to tweet out the Declaration
of Independence 140 characters at a time.
Now, typically NPR will read the Declaration
of Independence on their radio show every
Fourth of July.
This year they decided to go ahead and incorporate
Twitter and tweeted it out to all of their
followers.
And, predictably, Republicans absolutely lost
their minds believing that NPR was somehow
calling for a revolution, for people to take
up arms against the Trump administration.
Many people said that NPR was simply tweeting
out propaganda.
Many begged them to just stop, please stop.
You're calling for violence against the president.
Few of these Republicans understood that NPR
was tweeting out the Declaration of Independence,
which pretty much is the entire reason the
Fourth of July holiday even exists.
These people were so low information that
they didn't understand the patriotic act that
NPR was doing on the Fourth of July.
Instead, they were triggered.
They thought it was some kind of personal
attack on Donald Trump and Republicans and
immediately began getting on Twitter, commenting
their little hearts out trying to tell us
what a horrible, bad thing NPR was doing.
Again, this is disgusting because not only
do these people not understand what they're
doing, but the fact that they can't recognize
the preamble to the Declaration of Independence,
that they don't recognize those lines in there,
that they don't understand what is being said
... That's not just an indictment about their
mental capabilities, that's an indictment
of the entire American education system.
You know, the education system that Republicans
currently want to dismantle.
When we have that many grown adults who don't
even know what the Declaration of Independence
is, that's a big problem.
And it starts with the schools, but it also
helps explain why Republicans are so successful
with elections.
If these people don't even know the Declaration
of Independence, something that I'm pretty
sure every school in the United States teaches,
most schools have it on a poster somewhere,
if these people don't understand that, then
yeah, they can't understand complex things
like healthcare and national security and
foreign policy.
That's why they vote Republican, because Republicans
speak to their base.
Donald Trump specifically gave his speeches
at a fourth grade speaking level.
That's what all the studies showed during
his campaign rallies, fourth grade speaking
levels.
One of the lowest in modern presidential history,
and these people still blindly support him
because he speaks at their level.
He speaks their language.
They don't know what the Declaration of Independence
is.
They don't know what it says.
They can't recognize individual lines from
the Declaration of Independence, like, "We
hold these truths to be self-evident."
I would think most people in this country
would recognize that particular line, but
they didn't.
And again, it's an indictment of the American
education system.
It's an indictment of Trump voters, but it
also gives us a very clear picture into the
mental capacity and mental stability of those
hardcore, die hard, Republican voters.
