Oh boy, this thread should be sent to the NEA 'cause the wheels on the bus go round and round and under it they go.
Publik Edukation and Hooked on Phonix works for me.
judesedit (1,686 posts)
13. Research "The Dumbing Down of America". It's been advised many times.
Once you do, you will understand. It is a real program started in the 40's to make sure kids learned and expressed only what they were taught. No facts necessary. No free-thinking. No descenting. You fail the grade if you don't tow the line. No joke. You are now seeing the results. It's basically called brainwashing.
An has been in liberal hands ever since. But hey, why would that be a problem?
LAS14 (4,932 posts)
51. Soon after the 2016 election I began thinking that...
... the real burden is on the educational system. We've GOT TO educate our populace to THINK. If we don't, we're going to lose our democracy.
Public education is not about to sign on to this anytime soon.
Star Member jimlup (6,008 posts)
54. We actually don't have to "regain the majority" - we already are!
We just have to enforce that. It is a cold civil war in my opinion. The Republicans are NOT a majority. They are a serous MINORITY party who has wrestled control by being belligerent ill mannered assholes beyond what we could have imagined AND by kissing the asses of of the plutocrats.
We must GET OUT THE VOTE and fight like crazy at every Jerry Mandering and voter purge done by the anti-democracy Reptilians.
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Star Member PoindexterOglethorpe (6,205 posts)
55. I don't think it's people on the left who don't understand that majority rules in Congress.
And almost everyone here is registered and votes regularly. But there are those who quite honestly believe their vote doesn't count, which is actually true at the Presidential level to a large extent. If your state is going to go Republican for the President, the only point in bothering to vote for the Democrat for that office is to make the margin of victory one vote less. Same for the opposite (a Republican in a largely Democratic state). Every other office your vote does count.
An essential underlying problem is that history is very badly taught in this country, and even the best of news programming or newspapers tends to report all news in a vacuum, as if there was nothing leading up to whatever is being presented or written about. Worse, people tend to be quite proud of their lack of knowledge of history.
Frost that cake with the frosting of people not reading very much, or if they do read it's Game of Thrones or the latest Tom Clancy thriller, never a bit of non fiction of any kind, you have a truly ignorant electorate.
The movies are great medicine. DUmmies love 'em some Mikie Mooreon.
Party on Garth. (or should that be Goth?)
