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"Is that Bill Clinton?" "Nixon, maybe?" "A certain politician of sorts."

George Mason students can't identify Ronald Reagan by his photo



Joe Biden doesn't do much better, but rest assured, everyone recognized Kim Kardashian. It's a good thing it's only three minutes because every second you spend watching it will make you dumber. Via the Daily Signal: Here's what I'm trying to work out from this: Yes, they should all recognize Reagan and Biden, but is this really an indictment of the current generation or would this have pretty much been par for the course at any point in history?

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When I was in college in the mid-'80s, what if someone had walked around campus holding up photos of Dwight Eisenhower, George Bush and Madonna? Everyone would get Madonna, of course, but I bet you'd get a lot of the fraternity beer night crowd with no idea who Ike or the contemporaneous vice president were. To those of us who lived through Reagan's presidency and remember it well (especially those of us who remember it fondly), that's not just the face of a past American political figure. It's practically the face of the presidency itself. But people who spend a lot of time thinking about politics tend to forget that we're the exception, not the norm, and I'm not sure we would really want to become the norm. An entire nation of people completely obsessed with politics, at least to my thinking, would make winter baseball in Venezuela seem a lot more worth the risk of being kidnapped. And I'll be honest: I'm not sure I'd get Kim Kardashian right. I know she's on reality show - although no one I know admits to watching it - and I know she's got something to do with Bruce Jenner and O.J. Simpson, but for the life of me I don't know why anyone finds this interesting, and I'm not sure what she looks like except that I presume it's some sort of plastic-surgery-modified version of her real self. And maybe if I failed to correctly identify her, those who are obsessed with pop culture would think I'm just as big an idiot as I think they are for not recognizing Ronald Reagan. And maybe they'd have something of a point. Even so, I'm not asking for a vote on who should rule the pop culture world. These people are going to vote for the next president, and a lot of them are going to choose Hillary because she's a woman or Bernie because he promises to give them free stuff. How about this: They refrain from making decisions about our world, and we'll refrain from making decisions about theirs. Deal?


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