Americans in the dark on world events and key national policies

[TheLoudenclear]

its not that they dont have access to info, they just dont care. there should be an aptitude test to vote.

[slugmeatslugmeat]

i live and work in NYC. I don't doubt this for a minute. Shuffling back and forth towards shiny stuff and blinking lights... sniffing out the best food... or just praying for the day to end so they can go home from work and turn it all off.

[KimberlyMorin]

This country is so freaking screwed

[crestind]

This is completely fake. The people who know what they're talking about get filtered out. I'll bet a solid 9/10 people on the streets will know about Libya.

[skinmonkey]

I see stupid people...they're everywhere.

[20Eyes1974]

Embarrassed to say, our gov run media has everyone fried. Serious stuff and just blind to it all.

[th86stone]

statistically they are dumb people like this everywhere, you just don't see interviews like this in other parts of the world. An unedited version would be more conniving.

[demonoftruth]

lol..... must be all that fluoride their drinking......

[carcabe]

Give us a break. We Americans are quite well informed on anything and everything important. The NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, the Kardashians, Real Housewives, American Idol, Gaga, the latest movies, tv shoes, fashions, etc. Just so we are well entertained. What could be more important?

[ali38445]

stupid ignorant,useless eater,parazit american who are consuming most of the earth s food,wealth and water.now i see why jews want them to die

[Killumanatic]

I bet we can take the majority of any country and get a similar result, fact of the matter is that there will always be a significantly less amount of intelligent people then there will be the common slob, which now makes up at least 70-80% of the population in most countries....

[UVDan]

"Who is the vice president of the U.S.?" Peter Griffin from "The Family Guy". Every time Biden opens his mouth, I hear Peter Griffin.

[UVDan]

It is always funny to see dumb people. I think they are pretty much distributed in equal proportions around the globe though. Russia, China, Mexico, England, Iceland, it does not matter where you go you will find dumb (and smart) people. No one country has a monopoly on either one.

[6evorev6]

The mindless sheeple, they know about hollywood than the world. Hope they enjoy they're time at the FEMA death camps.

[6evorev6]

@6evorev6 *more about hollywood* damn where's my coffee

[hardcorezombi]

@6evorev6 And here come the conspiracy theorists.

[GetRealStudios]

is this serious? im 15, live in thailand, and know more about the world than these adults do.

[bucolic1]

it s nice 2 see all is going according too plan =(

[InfiniteAkasa]

Embarrassing. 

[Chubby0883]

we are so fucked

[LordAvoc]

This is why those idiots aren't protesting.

[TheFlexEffect]

if you still haven't figured out 9/11 was a false flag operation, you're a hopeless dumbass....

[SlightyDisturbedNBK]

These people are not stupid, just massively ill-informed about world events. I put the blame on the main stream media, they don't want an informed electorate.

[ArtsAlign]

They've been Monsantosized with neurotoxins for plutocratic protection. YT search Dr. Russell Blaylock.

[UnendingGameplay]

I have a new tv show idea...

Are you smarter then an American

Anyone can compete

[MrGiggity890]

its funny that people think i should move to russia because i see a majority of americans in the same light as RT is portraying them....hey assholes, i felt this way even before i discovered RT...so fuck off

[1eyednewt]

Have another glass of fluoride!

[ZandAsmom]

This I would completely believe based on my own daily interactions. No one wants to talk about this stuff because it's "unpleasant", who cares how badly their apathy is ruining our country. That one guy, "who cares" - it makes me so angry when I see that attitude.

[CosmosPrivateer]

Ever notice when the news interviews people in other countries they seem to get the dumb ones there too?

Only on planet Earth.

[petite0salope]

Sensationalist nonsense akin to that silly Jay Leno bit.

[nikto2000]

We might as well let our first graders vote for President. Pitiful. This is why we have a dysfunctional government.....we allow people who dont know jack to select "our" leader.

[seekert6]

@nikto2000 lol - the selection of the next leader never has SQUAT to do with "voters" but everything to do with who the ruling "elite" want for the next puppet. Do you honestly think that after watching Obama pick up right where Bush left off that we truly have independent leaders? No, we do not. Review the information and re-think the world around you. There is a deliberate plan in place and your opinions matter nothing to these psychotic a-holes.

[matsutakneatche]

oh shit.

[hypothetic7]

This is pathetic. If you can't answer basic political questions, you shouldn't be able to vote. Most people just vote Republican or Democrat, no matter who's on the ticket, because that's what they and their family have done for years. PAY ATTENTION, PEOPLE.

[BereanStudent]

Sad but true. Is the appropriate response after answering those questions to just start shouting, "U.S.A." repeatedly? ;-)

[TypeAdeviant]

On behalf of my fellow Americans, I apologize to the rest of the planet.

[dapop1001]

@TypeAdeviant Dont apologize for me fool. If you were not so ignorant you would be able to see thru this blatent anti-American propaganda. Did you bother to ask yourself how many people RT had to ask to find 4 who didnt know the answers to all their questions. Have you ever heard of editing or poll manipulation. Do you really think that those are the only people that were interveiwed? How many of those questions could you answer? But they couldnt find anyone else that could? Wakeup

[savgal1211]

"They walk among us:"  WE ARE SCREWED!!

[DMINATOR]

now, but maybe US doesn't deserve Ron Paul, bring him here :)

[Giash4]

Lol..my 7 year old daughter knew the answers to all those questions. This actually proves majority americans are ignorant and stupid. No wonder zionist are in control

[dapop1001]

@Giash4 It proves your 7 year old is smarter than you. RT is anti-American propaganda, and it worked on you. Have you heard of editing? How many people did RT have to interveiw to find these few that didnt know the answers? Never crossed your mind that an anti-American video maker would cut out anyone that got the answer right so that they could prove their point? The conventional veiw serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith Please wake up.

[Empire895]

@dapop1001 The only way to test this 'theory' is to hit the streets and ask the same questions to see what kind of responses you get without the edited out people who knew the answers, if there were any. Most New Yorkers typically would keep walking anyway and mostly people with no clue will stop because they have nothing better to do with their time.

[Empire895]

@dapop1001 The only TRUE test of our National Stupidity Level would be getting a written test to a majority of Americans and have them take the test then poll the results. But for a current earmark of our National Idiocracy one can just come to any article on Yahoo and read some of the stupid responses. LOL

[dapop1001]

@Empire895 I think you mean You Tube. Yes there are alot of stupid gulible people posting comments here.

[aquaimage13]

Who was the MVP in last years SuperBowl? Who was the shortstop who used to do backflips for the Cardinals? Who does Lebron James salute before each game?.BREAD AND CIRCUS! ROME FELL!...............They would all know this shit, but hmm, to blow people up, as long as they are tan and bearded who cares, as long as we can not be bothered with real issues. And yet we still get yelled at when we try to explain Ron Paul's foreign policy to people and how the media is attacking him with LIES!

[optionsupdate]

are the smarter people too busy to stop and talk to an interviewer?

[optionsupdate]

is this a representative sample?

[replikreplik]

Many Americans are ignorant for sure but you could ask those questions in many other countries and get similar results. The average western citizen only cares for himself.

[politicalprisoner2]

This video proves that amerikans don't care about ANYTHING unless it affects their lives in their own homes very directly. Otherwise, they have plenty of distractions with sports, and eating out at fancy food joints because they are too lazy to cook, and amusements, and entertainment mainstream media. The LAST thing amerikans really want is to have to be aware of reality. Reality sucks and subliminally I think they are trained to ignore reality or they will end up in trouble with the cops.

[dapop1001]

@politicalprisoner2 Please watch "TedTalks Dave Meslin- The antidote to apathy" on YT. RT is an anti-American site, have you ever heard of editing? How about poll manipulation? Could you answer most of the questions? How many people did they have to ask to find this many that didnt know the answers? Would an anti-American video maker cut out the footage of anyone that got the questions right? In the age of internet 'news' the veiwer should know a few common sense questions.

[Richardofdanbury]

It is truly a shame and embarrassment that this great country has sunken this low. I became a history and geography teacher to remedy this situation when I discovered more than twenty years ago how ignorant people here are. That was more than twenty years ago when I was involved in the international energy trade. However, it turns out that parents regard history and geography as unimportant so without their cooperation the kids refused to learn.

[SteveXnycperformance]

AMERICAN are cows,most of them.It the land of dreams,so they must be sleep walking look for food.

[SteveXnycperformance]

@SteveXnycperformance They are really Citizen and far from the American ideal. American live Tax free, all other (citizen) Pay for they suffering & disappointment with liberty,cause they can never liberate them self from foreign bankers monopoly.Foreigner don`t like citizen, but the foreigner will become a citizen in search of the American dream(prison).today you can find all the American in jail, living free like America funded by citizen Cain.

[EricBochene]

there's the 99% for ya! and people wonder why there's a 1%! pff!

[chop98]

This is absolutely disgusting.

[Sept11Discovery]

Why do we do we try...sad part is, they are the rule, not exception, your fucked America...

[LaughingAtHumanity]

These are the sad majority of your countrymen; the walking dead. The criminality, injustice, malcontent of this nation is directly proportionate to the engineered stupidity of the populace.

As long as people refuse to educate themselves and dope themselves up with television, propaganda, junk food, sports and all other forms of ignorant and divisive pass times rather than learn the truths of this world this nation will continue to spiral towards fascism.

[erikwilliamson77]

couldn't even watch the whole video it this was so disgusting and revealing

[kmg501]

This is the oldest trick in the book, you ask fifty people these questions and then only show the ones that don't know a damn thing. Also, the so called reporter is at Times Square which is one of the busiest tourist locations in the world. So unless people have a strong accent, you don't know where they are from.

Shame on RT for such obviously warped reporting methods.

-

[seekert6]

@kmg501 Exactly! RT has already been exposed as a propaganda anti-American tool. See youtube user dallasgoldbug for more on this including COUNTLESS exposures of the criminals fueling world views in their roles as actors for the scumbag elite.

[grizzzlyjoe]

@kmg501 Agreed. I can answer every one of these questions and I'M NOT the brightest bulb on the tree.

I call BULLSHIT.

[mooncat1965]

@kmg501 while my fingers are crossed very tightly that this is the case, I fear it is not. The majority of people I talk to (outside of a small cadre of friends who are aware of the world around them), are dithering idiots.

[lyhotsFX]

@kmg501 NO! This is a VERY ACCURATE representation of how ignorant my fellow citizens are. It's a low down dirty SHAME.

[Smackdaddyoneohone]

@kmg501 You really think she just walked around all day asking people? 50 people times maybe 5-7 minutes per person = 250-350 minutes = about 6 hours straight. just for a 3 minute piece?

You're the oldest dumbass in the book.

[gmanx21]

this is what keeps me up at night O_O....

[pillowbugg]

First, this absolutely doesn't surprise me in the least. As a former public employee I can tell you that most countrymen are identical to these idiots, and furthermore, this display of stupidity is just the tip of the iceberg. The lack of intelligence is profound!

However, I am sure they edited out some who were intelligent.

On the upside, these buffoons make the minority of intelligent people ( and even those with average IQ levels) appear many times brighter then what they are.

[trollingmusick]

LMAOOOO....we're all fuckedddd omggggg..sikee..OLD PEOPLE CANT LEARN TOO WELL...BUT EVERYONE YOUNGER THAN LIKE 30 STILL HAS A CHANCE...and we're the ones who will inherit the mess of a government we have..the youth gotta smarten up....use the internet correctly and learn facts...make smart decisions..its a new age ....wake upp

[fockya]

We should be allowed to kill stupid people, that would solve the economic crisis, there's so many jackass's floating around out there.

[fockya]

Were all dooooooooooooooooooooomed

[jesswlawson]

Americans aint the sharpest tools in teh shed

[cobboGHS91]

LMFAO DOES ANYBODY ELSE SEE THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THIS CLIP AND THAT MOVIE WALL-E WHERE ALL THE RETARDED AMERICANS JUST FUCKTARDED AROUND AND HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND THEM

[mhashim999]

THE XIONIST CONTROLLED MEDIA SHOWERING THE PEOPLE WITH EVERY BAD THING EXCEPT THE TRUTH.. THERE ARE A LOT OF COMMERCIALS .. ENTERTAINMENT .. CELEBRITIES .. PORNOGRAPHY. AND AT THE SAME TIME THEY OWN THE BANKS, WALL STREET. THE ECONOMY.. THE CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF.

[LtSgt5]

HOLY SHIT TURN OFF THE TV PEOPLE AND READ MY BLOG!!

[kanayd]

I'm American and I'm embarrassed at how dumb people in this country are. And what's worse is these people vote.

[gsuitter]

The scary part is these people probably vote.

[WulfBand]

Absolute proof of the dumbing down of America by the Jewish controlled media & a Jewish controlled government.

[Shawnalicious7]

@WulfBand Jewish? I'm sorry please elaborate...



[grizzzlyjoe]

@WulfBand ... MORON. Maybe if everyone acted more "Jewish" (ya' know, like Jesus was) then everyone's children would grow up knowing about their world. The "JEWS" have nothing to do with the fact that YOU learned nothing in school, shit-wad, because my Jewish children did, and they have advanced degrees ... oh, and can probably buy and sell YOU.

Once again ... you're a MORON, moron.

[bugsz1]

Embarrassing. Let us hope the actual voters are not so naive.

[NewAmericaNow]

Just think of how many people will perish in the coming global collapse from their ignorance and apathy. Wow. too bad.

[kalon1972]

This is all becasue main stream media hides the truth and people are so ignorint.

[cobboGHS91]

@kalon1972 no dude this is absolute proof that americans are fucking retarded

[moverling5]

remember, they only aired the people who don't know and look very stupid. If they wanted to air people with all the right answers, the could have done that also.

[MrGottabefree]

Its official, WE ARE FUCKED. All you who are still asleep to the corruption by YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT, deserve exactly what you get!!!

[lovinlyfeo]

@GiantTarget as long as if americans still have their ipads and nice cars and big houses they could care less what the gov does

[SytrusISurtys]

0:57 keeps dignity & walks away. beautiful

[GiantTarget]

Government: Hey kid I'm going to take away your rights. Adult: Can I still watch Dancing with the Stars? Government: Yes

[kikkerthyzz]

now i know why your goverment got all those FEMA coffins fluoride,aspartam and MSG doesn`t kill you fast enough and the sad thing is that your in atank which experiment is about to blow and there is a way out :get of that continent. one love

[ionacaddy]

Who said, "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it"... ummm... Socrates? Shakespeare? I dunno I forget...

[Thyalwaysseek]

This is the product of 2000 years of bread and circuses...I pity these poor ignorant people.

[seekert6]

Oh whatever!!!! Just keep slamming people! Divide and conquer! Make people hate Americans! Bravo jerks!! You get a massive thumbs down from me on your wretched, jaded views of people! Try having a little compassion and understanding. It might serve you well to understand the deliberate dumbing down of Americans and just how heinous of an agenda is being served by this piece of trash you call "journalism". I call it sensationalized staged drama.

[pillowbugg]

@seekert6 I am subject to that same process, yet haven't fell for it. Face it...people are dumb, helpless and are too ignorant to realize it....I have no pity or sympathy for these clowns...natural selection wouldn't normally allow this, but that is the ultimate problem. We can manipulate nature.

[seekert6]

@pillowbugg You know what, I used to be jaded and angst filled too. Then I educated myself on the highly subversive tactics that are used to fuel such mindsets and subsequently developed a deep understanding of the profoundly sinister agenda at play here. So, I'm going to give you a bit of a pass. Yes, natural selection would seem to be the process at play. However, it is truly something much more dark and twisted than the theory of natural selection. The occult has a huge hand in this.

[theonlykatii]

and we let these people vote... scary :(

[pillowbugg]

@theonlykatii and drive on the same roads as we......

[wckdclwn911]

And we wonder why shit is how it is

[alexebox]

to laugh or to cry... that is the question... whether 'tis nobler in the mind to shoot yourself in the head out of disgust with humanity or to take arms against a sea of profoundly retards and by opposing end them (sorry, Bill)

[ih8ronpaulh8ers]

it is always bizarre when something so sad can be so hilarious

[fnogyrabyore]

Just lot what little hope i had -_-

[mdlittle5466]

Americans (...unto which I have no choice but to admit with great revulsion that I am...reluctantly...a part thereof...), you -HUMILIATE- yourselves...you have proven to be number one one only one particular field: IGNORANCE.

[B2Bfrst]

WOW..........were in trouble?

[ThunderDog97]

Don't know shit..... but love to chant "USA, were number 1"

About the only things that America is number 1 at is attacking other nations and arms dealing.

Just so very very sad that a once great country has been utterly destroyed from the inside.

Rid yourselves of the ZOG before it's completely too late.

--

[MrGiggity890]

i'm ashamed to be an american

[dapop1001]

@MrGiggity890 Move to Russia. This is a pro Russian, Anti-American 'news-propaganda' web site. We are ashamed of you too. Do you realize they could have asked 1000s of people and only used the ones that didnt know anything? You should allways question the source of your information before blindly beleiveing anything you hear.

[MrGiggity890]

@dapop1001 sure they could have, but unless you live under a rock, this represents the majority of americans....and no thank you, RT actually reports the truth unlike CNN or FOX or MSNBC

[dapop1001]

@MrGiggity890 I dont have any tv so I dont watch that BS. What I am saying is that if you are ashamed to be an American, just because of RT propaganda I wouldnt want you standing beside me anyways. I know the American people are not that stupid, I could have answered all the questions, so to show us that not one American could answer even one question is fake. They are only showing the ones that prove their point, and for you to be so easily deceived shows how stupid you are.

[sweetgman46]

@dapop1001 and you think that FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS is not propaganda? Grow up - wake up. I got all the questions correct ! Go watch dancing with the stars.

[dapop1001]

@sweetgman46 They are all propaganda, that is my point also. If you want to know what is going on you have to get your 'news' from multiple sources and understand that they all have an agenda to push not just the American ones. You dancing with the stars fools are the reason that RT can find 5-10 people that dont know who the VP is, and why you dont know propaganda when you see it. "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."-John Lennon

[dapop1001]

@sweetgman46 I dont have cable tv at my house so I dont waste my time on your fantasy distractions. You should stop assumeing that everyone lives like you do. Another case of what someone says shines more light on themselves then the topic they are discussing. What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth.” Linda Ellinor

[cyaard]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

[1tonykirk]

Pitiful.

[usergently]

Fluoride overdose!

[cyaard]

@usergentl I was thinking fluoride as well.

[emerald1one1]

oh and they voted . ps RT new is copycatting "" Rick Mercer's Report . while talking to americans.  , wow stunning of Vice Pres. name .~

[mutexnet]

Sad.  And frighting.

[BeantownJim]

dumbed down people!