America...Home of the Idiots

How long can a nation last that is full of idiots?  How long can a nation last that has over half of its citizens living off of money they never earned?

Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled "Idiocracy" was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade.  In the movie, an "average American" wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the "dumbed down" society that he suddenly finds himself in.  

Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us.  We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach.  

Hardly anyone takes time to read a book anymore, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television.  75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet.  It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

What in the world has happened to us?  How is it possible that we have become so stupid?  According to a brand new report that was recently released, almost 10 percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court...

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know.

Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV s "Judge Judy," is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal.

It's gotten so bad that, as my friend nears retirement, he says he is very seriously considering moving out of the country so as to escape what he sees will be the surefire collapse of functioning American society in the next handful of years due to the absolutely irrefutable destruction, the shocking and nearly hopeless dumb-ification of the American brain. It is just that bad.

Now, you may think he s merely a curmudgeon, a tired old teacher who stopped caring long ago. Not true. Teaching is his life. He says he loves his students, loves education and learning and watching young minds awaken. Problem is, he is seeing much less of it.

And of course things don't get much better when it comes to our college students.  In a previous article, I shared some statistics from USA Today about the rapidly declining state of college education in the United States...

-"After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change."

-"Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago"

-"35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone."

-"50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages"

-"32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week."

Read more at http://prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=226#poDWoiRB16fd4gj1.99

As we watch the Presidential campaign play out between an arrogant game show host, a Jr senator, a liar and a socialist...we may be getting a glimmer of what happens when idiots in a democracy get to choose their leaders.

Even more concerning for the fate of our nation is how quickly the upcoming generations are rejecting God, His-story, and His laws.

How long can a nation last who embrace same-sex marriage, can't discern the difference between male and female, ("male and female HE created them) kill babies by the millions for convenience, spend billions of hours and dollars watching other people have sex, worship sports and yet expect the government to provide food, shelter, clothing and pensions for all?

It sounds like a recipe for utter disaster!

There can be no doubt that this whole story of America would be VERY DEPRESSING if we didn't know that God has the whole thing under His control.  America will surely fall when God says, "Enough!"...and not one second sooner.

How thankful can we call be that Jesus has provided an eternal shelter from the soon coming wrath of Satan AND the soon coming wrath of God?

Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.

Judges 17:6 
In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

In these days, America has no fear of The Lord.  Everyone just makes up their own rules and does whatever they want, whenever they want with whomever they want.