the world: politics

I used to believe that "the government" was a single person who made all the rules - and that person also worked as a school teacher. For a while, I wondered how a school teacher could be in charge of hospitals, the police, and all public schools. Then one day, I was told "the government" was on TV, so I excitedly looked - but instead of one person, I saw a crowd of people. That was when I was finally told: the crowd was "the government".

I used to believe that WB Mason was a former president of the United States

As a kid I didn't know about political views, so I thought that in elections people just voted for whoever they liked more as a person. I remember seeing polical comedy featuring him on TV and thinking "George Bush is pretty funny, I hope he wins again!"

In 1998, I was at a Renaissance Faire in Pennsylvania for a school trip. It was set in Elizabethan times, and the main event of the day, the Ultimate Joust, had an actor playing Queen Elizabeth I there. However, she was referred to as "Queen Elizabeth," and the Queen of England at that time was Queen Elizabeth II. I honestly thought that the *current* Queen of England, Elizabeth II, was actually at that joust, especially since I had no idea what she looked like back then.

I Used To Believe Corporal Punishment Was Invented By Corporate Agents That They Used On Their Kids/Children, Pets, And Wives!

If you lost a Presidential election, you had to leave the country. This came from me mishearing the words "lead the country" from a TV ad talking about the election that was going on back then.

I used to think Obama's name was short for Baraccobama.

I used to think that George Bush's first name was President

I used to believe that a ballot is just a blank piece of paper where you write the name of who you vote for in giant letters.

I thought that the world belonged to the president and could do anything he wanted. I always wanted to become the president so I could have the whole world to myself

When i was younger 5 or 6 i thought we were fighting Russians in WW2
and which lead me up till 6th grade that Nazis were russian

I thought every single organisation had a government observer and the entire nation was working for some sort of plan that all the adults were hiding from us.

I used to seriously misunderstand the concept of voting. I assumed whoever voted for one option would get it and whoever voted for the other option would get the other, instead of the option with more votes affecting everyone.

Back in the mid 90's, when I was about 10, I used to believe that I was a prisoner in a digital world. I used to feel that beyond this reality was a utopia, and that I had broken the laws of that utopia and was imprisoned in a digital reality that was meant to continually punish me until I had learned my lesson, whatever it may be.

The Spanish word for president is "Presidente". I have a Mexican origin. When they told me Vicente Fox was the president of Mexico, I thougt that his name was Fox and that both Presidente and Vicente were titles. I used to boast to my school partners that Fox was Presidente AND Vicente of Mexico xD

When I was little I heard on the TV that poverty had something to do with politics. I knew politics was something the mayor do, and mayors take care of cities.
So I believed that poor people lived in poor towns, and rich people lived in rich towns.