Originally Posted by
Oneuli
Isn't it true that, despite your notion that there's been an attempt to destroy education, in reality education has improved greatly, on average -- that, relative to the 1970s, for example, standardized test scores are up, drop-out rates are down to record lows, and percentage of people getting higher education are at an all-time high?
Replacing education with brainwashing makes it easier automatically, and allows you to pull in more females and minorities. Obviously “scores” then go “up”. Dropout rates are less for the same reason, and obviously more receive “higher education”. Making student loans easy to receive and easy to avoid paying back increases this intake. In the end every Tom, Dick and Harriet is crowded into college to get their three years of indoctrination. When they come out they can’t spell, add up or anything much, except vote for the Democrats and regurgitate Leftist propaganda, like your next paragraph.
With regard to destroying discipline, isn't it true that crime rates have generally been dropping since the disaster of the late Reagan/Bush era (when violent crime rates hit their all-time high), and overall things are back to about where they were in the mid-1960s, which is among the best they've been in all of American history? With regard to the economy, isn't it true that right now real median incomes, real wages, and real GDP per capita are all at all-time highs?
Lefties don’t report the crime, they ignore it. Their cops don’t do much about it either, so people stop calling the cops. This affects the “crime stats”. Here’s how that happens:
Ten people in in a certain street in Chicago are burgled in one day.
Only two bother to call the police. The others don’t bother because they know the cops won’t do anything and nobody will be caught.
The two that do report burglary are recorded as one. Why? Because the Democrats in charge tell the cops to make crime appear less than it is. So they “forget” to record one of those crimes.
The results come out: How many houses were burgled in that street during that day?
1.
The true figure?
10.
This allows the Democrats in Chicago to say crime has dropped, which is nonsense. Rule number one: Never Believe Leftist Stats.
Fertility rates have indeed fallen. If you want to find high rates, you'll need to go to a country that's savaged by poverty and social dysfunction, like Niger, Burundi, and Uganda. When things improve in a country, fertility tends to fall. That's a long-standing historical truism.
The United States wasn’t savaged by poverty and social dysfunction in 1954. It was a fantastic society – the envy of the world. The graph below shows you that the U.S. crude birth rate in 1954 was 28.38 per 1,000 population. That dropped to 12.50 by 2015. The reason wasn’t poverty; it was because Americans had and could afford contraception. The pill was available from 1960, and before that there were other contraceptives used. Also, hand in hand with the pill, there were the baby boomers (hippies) and feminism. They believed women should stop having babies and turn into men. Having babies was frowned upon and still is by feminazis.
In poverty ravaged places like Niger, Burundi or Uganda they can’t afford contraception. The same graph for Niger shows that in 1962 the crude birth rate was 58.23. It went down to 48.44 by 2015. Why are they so poor they can’t afford contraceptives?
Socialism. See here and here for details. As is the case in all 3rd world hellholes, Socialism lurks under layers of false names, sucking the life out of its host.
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