I sat this morning and gazed over news, and this one small item lay there....a C-SP*N/PBS survey. They went out and asked around a thousand 'likely voters' (hint: not regular people but people who say they usually vote)....about how familiar they were with the Supreme Court.
Roughly fifty percent could not name a SINGLE member of the current court.
I would suggest that if you'd based the poll off just regular people at some flea-market....it would have even gone down to maybe 20-percent naming one single guy/gal off the Supreme Court.
But the real question here....is it important to know the members of the court? Basically....NO. It doesn't change your life or improve your disposition. It doesn't comfort you at 11 PM at night when your husband is still out drinking, or having to talk to some idiot teacher in the school because of a poor grading system with your kids. Frankly, it doesn't matter for the bulk of us.
For journalists, or the PBS crowd? Well....they'd like for people to get all pepped up and care.
Can folks name all the NFL teams? I would imagine among likely male-voters...more than sixty percent can name two-thirds of the teams.
Can folks name their two senators? I would take a guess that barely a third of all likely voters can name both senators from their state.
Does any of this matter.....that's really the big question.
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