More Americans can identify the Three Stooges than the three branches of government

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Here Are 16 of the Dumbest Things Americans Believe -- And the Right-Wing Lies Behind Them

https://www.alternet.org/here-are-16-dumbest-things-americans-believe-and-right-wing-lies-behind-them

Nearly one-fifth of Americans think Obama is a Muslim. Thanks, Fox news, for acting like this was a matter of opinion, not fact.

25 percent of Americans don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution while less than 40 percent do. Consider the fact that several of our newly elected officials, specifically newly elected Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, share that belief.

Earlier this year, nearly 40 percent of Americans still believed the Sarah Palin-supported lie about "death panels" being included in health care reform.

As of just a few years ago, about half of Americans still suspected a connection between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of September 11, a lie that was reinforced by none other than Dick Cheney.

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1. these days there's not much difference.

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2. You beat me to the punch. I was about to say

at this juncture in history they are one and the same.

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3. Guess that explains Shitler in the White House.

[Iliyah]

4. Ouch

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5. Koch and friends 1 America 0