For all the handwringing after the last election about why Democrats failed to do as well as they’d hoped, not enough attention was paid to the fact that the Republicans profited from outright ignorance among the electorate. How many of the 47% of Americans who think that Saddam Hussein helped plan and execute the attacks on 9/11 do you think voted for John Kerry?
The politics of ignorance
For all the handwringing after the last election about why Democrats failed to do as well as they’d hoped, not enough attention was paid to the fact that the Republicans profited from outright ignorance among the electorate. How many of the 47% of Americans who think that Saddam Hussein helped plan and execute the attacks on 9/11 do you think voted for John Kerry?
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