The Citizenship Test

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ent of American History and graduated from a major Midwestern university with honors. I’d be embarrassed to fail a citizenship test!So I was on the phone with an old friend yesterday. I met John 30 years ago at a bar where a mutual acquaintance introduced us. “You guys should get along. You both drive a cab.” Well, I don’t know if having that common ground would make us lifelong friends. For whatever reason, that’s what we became.John isn’t the smartest guy I’ve ever known. But he’s opinionated, that’s for sure. And he thinks Tucker Carlson is a god…and that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. No amount of logic can change his mind.While on the phone with my old pal, I ventured the opinion that if every voter was required to pass a citizenship test, Trump would have lost the election by 50 million votes — and not just 5. And to prove my point that I didn’t feel John was qualified to make an informed decision, I dug up 10 multiple choice sample questions from the citizenship test for us to answer.I was in shock at how little John knew. He got the first two questions right. And then he missed the next eight! Probability tells you that if he’d picked randomly, he’d have answered 2.5 correctly (there were 4 multiple choices). He didn’t even make that! To be fair, a couple of the questions we

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re really tough. But I got 8 out of 10 right.Truly, John knows nothing — save that Trump won and got cheated. He doesn’t know the difference among “they’re,” “there,” and “their.” He doesn’t know the difference among “two,” “too,” and “to.” On the test, he didn’t know who runs the executive branch. And he didn’t know who was president during WW 1.But John is sure he doesn’t want to open our borders and allow foreigners to come in and get free hospitalization. And this from a guy who hasn’t paid a dime in income tax for the 30 years that I’ve known him, and collects government money for being disabled. By the way, he runs 3 miles every day. He’s not disabled.I’m quite confident that John is your typical Trump voter. Full of hot air and devoid of knowledge. Presumption ought to be his first, middle, and last names. And if you ask me, the word presumption defines the Trump voter — if not all of America.Exactly how Trump got one vote mystifies me. That he got 70 million? It’s downright depressing. America should be ashamed of itself. And it should make all voters pass a citizenship test so we can weed out the idiots and reward only the informed with such a precious privilege. Because if 70 million citizens voted for Trump, there’s something really wrong with the electorate. And it’s time somebody fixed it!</article></body>

Could any of the MAGA crew pass one?

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Known to the chosen few is a historical fact that ALEXANDER HAMILTON wanted the vote to be reserved for landowners only. His theory was that those who didn’t own any land (the rabble) wouldn’t know enough to venture an informed opinion on who should be elected to office.

I have a similar but more modern take on the subject. All US voters should have to pass a citizenship test in order to vote. Why would a country give such a precious right to a citizen who didn’t exercise his or her due diligence in this area?

I mean…this is a test each and every immigrant has to pass in order to become a citizen. You’d think that natural-born Americans could pass it with ease, right? Guess again. According to US News and World Report, 66% of us would fail! That’s not a very informed electorate!

I’ve taken a few sample citizenship tests on the internet over the years just for fun. And I always pass with flying colors. But I’m a student of American History and graduated from a major Midwestern university with honors. I’d be embarrassed to fail a citizenship test!

So I was on the phone with an old friend yesterday. I met John 30 years ago at a bar where a mutual acquaintance introduced us. “You guys should get along. You both drive a cab.” Well, I don’t know if having that common ground would make us lifelong friends. For whatever reason, that’s what we became.

John isn’t the smartest guy I’ve ever known. But he’s opinionated, that’s for sure. And he thinks Tucker Carlson is a god…and that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. No amount of logic can change his mind.

While on the phone with my old pal, I ventured the opinion that if every voter was required to pass a citizenship test, Trump would have lost the election by 50 million votes — and not just 5. And to prove my point that I didn’t feel John was qualified to make an informed decision, I dug up 10 multiple choice sample questions from the citizenship test for us to answer.

I was in shock at how little John knew. He got the first two questions right. And then he missed the next eight! Probability tells you that if he’d picked randomly, he’d have answered 2.5 correctly (there were 4 multiple choices). He didn’t even make that! To be fair, a couple of the questions were really tough. But I got 8 out of 10 right.

Truly, John knows nothing — save that Trump won and got cheated. He doesn’t know the difference among “they’re,” “there,” and “their.” He doesn’t know the difference among “two,” “too,” and “to.” On the test, he didn’t know who runs the executive branch. And he didn’t know who was president during WW 1.

But John is sure he doesn’t want to open our borders and allow foreigners to come in and get free hospitalization. And this from a guy who hasn’t paid a dime in income tax for the 30 years that I’ve known him, and collects government money for being disabled. By the way, he runs 3 miles every day. He’s not disabled.

I’m quite confident that John is your typical Trump voter. Full of hot air and devoid of knowledge. Presumption ought to be his first, middle, and last names. And if you ask me, the word presumption defines the Trump voter — if not all of America.

Exactly how Trump got one vote mystifies me. That he got 70 million? It’s downright depressing. America should be ashamed of itself. And it should make all voters pass a citizenship test so we can weed out the idiots and reward only the informed with such a precious privilege. Because if 70 million citizens voted for Trump, there’s something really wrong with the electorate. And it’s time somebody fixed it!