"CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING"

Joe Bageant wrote (see below) that we liberals need to reach out to the working class in order to make them aware of the social and political realities in America instead of the conservative BS most of them believe.  As I read about the people he described, I became pessimistic about trying to do that because there is just so much frigging ignorance in the country.   Here's a good example:

Poll: Americans Wrongly Estimate $178 Billion In Fed. Budget Goes To Public Broadcasting
Jon Terbush | April 1, 2011, 2:34PM
TPM

In a CNN poll of American adults released Friday, the median guess on what percentage of the federal budget goes to public broadcasting was 5%. With a $3.55 trillion budget last year, that would put funding for the CBP at approximately $178 billion.


Further, 20% of respondents thought CPB funding made up over 10% of the entire budget, including 5% who said it made up at least half.

You can find all the poll results here.