The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
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If it doesn’t change course, we could end up with citizens who unknowingly elect an administration that represents the wealthy class, who will use our citizens lack of knowledge and history to wind back the clock 250+ years, and end up with us all fighting to not serve a pseudo-king.
Essentially negating every sacrifice made by all of those before us, to preserve a country based upon an idea, and not a king.
Everyone lost in wars, all our soft power, squandered away by a vote from idiot descendants.
Dumb and getting dumber ...
That's slightly more than 1 in 2 people between the ages of 16 and 74. You can't force adults to fix themselves
social media has dingbats believing that they're smart b/c all of their friends are dingbats too
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
But also (of course) -
It's a global problem.
…it’s how they take pride in it.