Re: “Colorado Republicans love Trump, want conservative candidates, says Magellan poll,” Feb. 14.

If all around people are losing their heads and you, an unaffiliated voter, are not, it is because you don’t understand the world. Most research shows that unaffiliated voters are especially ill-informed and very uninterested in educating themselves on the issues. Most research shows that unaffiliated voters are completely indifferent to moral issues that on close examination horrify caring, compassionate people.

For many decades past, students, including current unaffiliated voters, have received an indoctrination in progressive values and social justice values. The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has documented in, “Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics: With Case Studies of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado States University, University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Wyoming,” that students receive indoctrination rather than an education in civics as precisely defined. What most media organizations ignore is that the actual practices of the “New Civics” are more like George Orwell’s 1984.

The poll results are entirely understandable. Why should unaffiliated voters understand the threats America faces when they lack the education to actually understand the issues? Why should unaffiliated voters approve of President Trump’s policies when they are too uneducated to understand how his policies match up against individual threats to our lives, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

In part, I view it as a media failure that unaffiliated voters still remain so uninformed because the NAS Making Citizens report is now over two years old.

Richard R. Allen

Colorado Springs