Are Americans really stupid or are we just treated that way?

overkill is common in news stories now. the media has slanted the news since i have been aware (and that is a loooong time). people are less trusting now than they were when i was a child and young person, so the media has learned to either ignore us or to saturate us...no happy medium. for decades, the democrats have tried to take away the choices we have left in this country. they think we need herding and that they are the only ones sufficiently educated and intelligent to make major decisions. so i guess i would say "they don't want us to."

I think really the only American's that are really stupid are the ones that believe everything the news Achorman or woman says. I think that as being a good citizen means researching and finding out information on your own and getting all the fact to make a decision on any issue that you are concerned about. In this day and age this is fairly easy, because of the internet. Even if you don't have a computer here in the US you can go to just about any library and get on the computers they have there. Politics is just about that skirting around issues and not having to give all the information. The trick people need to learn is how to ask questions that can not be skirted around. Look for things that don't add up and ask their politicans pointed questions that can not be skirted around. I feel I am a Very Smart and informed American, though my spelling at times could use some work. When I need to know something and don't know it, I research it and find the answers that I need. I am very resourceful. I am the youngest out of 52 grandchildren and the youngest of six kids. But anytime anyone don't know how to go about doing something, or needs to find out something they don't know. They come to me and ask me to help search out the information. I love to learn, it is a passion of mine. I can read just about anything and love to talk and write. I write in discussions the way I would talk, so I don't make it formal or anything, but for people to assume that Americans are dumb, because of the Media's representation of Americans is dumb.

Interesting you should say this. I think it's true we only get just snippets in some ways. In other ways I think they give us way more than we need. You may recall my conversation on the Virginia Tech shooter's brother being interviewed. That was too much and so wrong in my opinion. In an effort to give us more, they go too far at times. I think the reason we only get snippets is out of the need for protection of certain individuals and avoiding political situations. Unfortunately, sometimes things do backfire and they end up making the situation worse.

No offence but I have a lot of relatives in the US and they do come about as naive and ...ummm...maybe just maybe dumb. It s probably because life in america is so uch different from anywhere else....and because there are so many oppurtunities to earn a living even if oyu do poorly at studies

Well i'm not american but i would say only a moron would say americans are stupid. I would rather say that the american public opinion is guided through the mass media. Best examble is the jougoslavia war.