Ep. 72 - Voters Should Be Required To Take A Civics Exam

The Matt Walsh Show

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4.7 • 27.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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We say that it's everyone's civic duty to vote. That's not exactly true. It's everyone's civic duty to be informed and contributing members of society. If they haven't fulfilled that duty, then it's extremely bad for them to vote. An ignorant, self-centered vote serves only to cancel out the votes of informed people. We could easily solve this problem by holding voters to a very basic standard of awareness and maturity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I saw a video floating around on Facebook that I think was originally published last week,
0:05.4	and it was another one of those Jimmy Kimmel dumb guy on the street segments.
0:10.5	And yeah, these things get old after a while because first of all, we get it, right?
0:14.4	I mean, there are a lot of idiots in America. We understand we get it. You don't need to keep
0:17.7	proving it to us. We're on board. We know, yes, it's kind of depressing. So I'm not really in the
0:23.6	mood to laugh about it anymore. Maybe the first few times we saw it, we started seeing these videos,
0:27.5	it was kind of funny. Now it's just it's not funny anymore. It's just really sad. And that's all.
0:34.1	And also we know that these are not exact. This is not scientific research here because
0:39.2	anytime you see one of these segments and the implication obviously is, oh, we went down to the
0:44.6	streets and we had this really simple question. We couldn't find anyone who could answer it correctly.
0:48.9	Well, no, you definitely found some people who could answer it correctly, but you didn't put
0:52.3	them in the video because then it detracts from the humor and it detracts from the point you were
0:56.4	trying to make. The point is that people are stupid. So we get so that all of course is true.
1:02.8	However, as cynical as I am and as jaded as I am by these dumb guy interviews, this one still
1:09.8	jumped out at me and was even more depressing than usual. In this video, maybe you've seen it,
1:17.7	people were at, they were given a map of the world without any of the countries
1:22.5	named on it. And they were asked to just point to one country on the map, just one. And it could
1:31.0	even be their own country. And they were able to find that Jimmy Kills producers were able to find
1:37.4	several presumably literate and presumably educated adults who could not point to one country
1:44.3	on the map, not even their own country. Now they were, they did find several people who pointed to
1:48.4	Africa, which of course is not a country, but they were not able to find or they were able to find
1:55.8	a number of adults who could not point to one single country. And that is, that truly is incredible
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