Declaration of Obliviousness: We hold these youths to be self-ignorant

Americans’ ignorance about their own history and civics has been problematic for decades, but a new survey even more greatly indicts Generation Z and the educators and parents who aided its empty-headedness.

One particular question in the Lawsuit.org poll stood out, with people as a whole doing poorly on it and Gen Zers doing pathetically. Asked who it was in 1776 that Americans declared independence from, 42% of respondents could not name Great Britain. Worse, a stunning 64% of the young adults in Gen Z got the question wrong. This is roughly the U.S. history equivalent of being unable to say that five plus five equals 10.