Study: Average member of Congress speaks at 10th grade level

This is exactly correct.

 

Yup. Really.

 

I have no problem with this. The only people you see communicating at their full levels are, for example, central bankers, and they do it just because it is their job to make heads explode.

 

I agree. I think it is actually a sign of ignorance for instance to use needlessly big vocabulary words in many contexts.

 

This isn't necessarily a concern, intelligent men can target a specific audience....but I think if our current pattern of mocking "the Elite" and "Harvard" educations continues...we might eventually get "Men of the people!" who have no idea what they are voting on.

 

proof

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Its not like people listen anyway. People conjure up these prejudices the moment they see the R or D next to the congressman's name.