A letter to the editor at the 2/19/2015 Wall Street Journal explains why Idiot America is infested with idiots.

"The current decline in science education, the belief that each individual's opinion is as valid as anyone else's, the willingness of our legislators to legislate nonscientific nonsense are all proof of the 'dumbing down' of our country."

Another quote from Isaac Asimov explains the same problem:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov

Another quote from Isaac Asimov:

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today." - Isaac Asimov

Several quotes from the right column of the previous version of this blog.