The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

[buzzycrumbhunger]

I’ve referenced the book with this title before, and here’s further proof it’s been working… (Here’s a link to the book on the Internet Archives to read for free: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-SYN9t0cHh1aFu8XV/mode/2up )

“More than half of American adults read below a sixth-grade level…”

https://www.investigatetv.com/2025/12/01/more-than-half-american-adults-read-below-sixth-grade-level/

"The number of American adults who read below a sixth-grade level is at its highest point ever, creating what experts call a “silent crisis” that affects the economy, health care and communities nationwide.

More than 50% of American adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade reading level, according to Andrew Roberts, president of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.”

"Adults with low-level literacy skills face significant disadvantages when voting, according to a study published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities.

The study examined the 2022 state elections and found 39% of adults had completed high school or less, yet 74% of ballots were written well above the high school level.”

JFC, we really are fucked, and it’s going to take several lifetimes to undo the damage from the damned Tea Party to the brain-dead MAGAts. How do we even fix this, when the entire MAGA cult thinks education is a farce?

[anciano]

1. Due to the arrival of the digital age and new technologies

such as the internet and AI, our ways of thinking, processing knowledge and interacting with information are rapidly evolving. So perhaps the traditional methods of measuring literacy need to evolve as well? Just a thought....🤔

[highplainsdem]

4. No. You can process information much, much faster reading it than listening to someone read it, and

with print you can also go back over it quickly if you didn't understand it the first time.

[Norrrm]

2. "ballots were written" - often deliberately confusing. Questions written so that 'yes' means disapproval.

[Redleg]

3. But generative AI has improved their writing

Just ask my students who use it to complete their class assignments, even after I told them not to use it.

[highplainsdem]

5. GenAI is the best tech ever for dumbing people down and deskilling them.