Matt Dillon (01-24-2021)
Cypress (01-24-2021)
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
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christiefan915 (01-26-2021), PoliTalker (01-24-2021)
Well as George Carlin said...if the average American voter is as dumb as shit then by definition half of Americans are dumber than shit.
My concern about people who have to be completely devoid of cognitive skills to believe in something as bat shit crazy as QAnon and respond with anger, aggressiveness and avpenchant for violence if you so much as disagree with them on their epic insanity.
Are our educational systems that horrifically bad that so many Americans don’t know our history our Democratic principles, scream for Constitutional government but have never read it? How could they not know how runaway nationalism led to fascism and totalitarianism in Europe and Asia that left all the Nations of Europe, Japan and much of China in bombed out ruins with over 100 million dead.
I mean who the fuck in their right mind would believe that vast swathes of our population would place themselves on the wrong side of history and be virulently opposed to anti-fascism given our history?
Recent events have definitely confirmed the old adage that those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it.
This would probably be a good time to evaluate how badly we teach history and civics in this country and correct that.
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
Diesel (01-24-2021), PoliTalker (01-24-2021)
I could not agree with you more. I was a high school history teacher for a brief time before I converted my profession. I was dismayed at how little sophomores and juniors (mostly) knew about basic world, Western, and American history. Half of them could barely spell. I went to my classroom hours early and stayed hours late to tutor (for free) students who wanted help. It will not surprise you that most students did not want help. They didn't care. They weren't curious. They asked the same question that gets asked in every classroom about every subject every year: "When am I ever going to need to know this in the real world?"
So there are the issues of the curricula and recruiting good teachers, etc., but this is what really grinds my gears. I failed about a third of my students. Most of the rest of them earned D and C grades. I think fewer than 20% earned B or A grades. The average GPA of an American high school graduate is somewhere around 3.3. The average GPA in my classes was probably somewhere around 1.4. So, to answer your question, yes, I think our educational systems are horrific. Think about how many adult, functioning people you know who drive cars and hold jobs and raise children who can't name a vice president, can't find more than two or three countries on a map, can't spell most of the words in the English language, can't divide fractions, and can't tell you how nationalism led to fascism and totalitarianism that caused WWII and nearly ended human civilization.
That's not because schools don't teach those things. You and I learned them. It's because students aren't held accountable and educators are restrained by bureaucracy and artificial standards. It's because uneducated people tend to maintain the status quo, which benefits the people who hold our power now. Think about how many "conservatives" think education is pointless. It's because education threatens them. And so now an education is derided as liberal and elitist while the so-called conservatives in this country think that the results of the 2020 election were fraudulent, that climate change and COVID are hoaxes, and that their political opponents are satan worshippers who rape babies in the basement of a pizza joint. I shake my head in disgust as Republicans continue to try to dismantle public education because without any educated people in the country, they would never lose an election. It's so foul, but I know we can do better.
christiefan915 (01-26-2021), Mott the Hoople (01-24-2021), PoliTalker (01-24-2021)
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