Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 18, 2004

Transcript:

"Geez, will you look at this? According to these surveys by the national constitution center, only 41% of American teens can identify the three branches of government..." "More than half of all American adults do not know the senate has 100 members. ...And almost a quarter of this country cannot name a single right guaranteed by the first amendment." "Heeey, take it easy, Einstein... Why does it matter?" "Why?... I'll tell you why... Because we live in a democracy, and these same people who know nothing about our government, which means that they decide whether or not we go to war, whether cities are destroyed, whether people lose their lives." "Dude, you made miss wrestling."