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They could have used this exact headline nearly every day for the last 18 months
IDK man, I feel like he's been incoherently rambling for way more longer. I still remember that time in 2016 when I decided to watch a trump rally just to see what right-winger could possibility like about it. 2h of nonsensical bullshit and bragging, not a single coherent point, my head still hurt. It really was the point I realised americans have an out of control under-education problem.
truth. Sagan put it best:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Under education isn't the main problem here per se I don't think. Anti intellectualism is. But more than anything, it's the alternate reality the oligarchs crafted for the right wing's sheep.
So it's more diseducation and under education, I think.
Yeah, the education system was never designed for people to question authority.
Right, so the minute they start to they just fall for the most charismatic grifters
People keep saying he's getting worse, and my inside reaction is always some flavor of "Do you even remember his first term?"
I do but also he is getting worse. There used to be some underlying train of logic but it's been breaking down exponentially, which admittedly is about what id expect from a progressive variant of Alzheimer's or Dementia. My great great aunt went out like that about 3 years ago, her mind just collapsed after awhile though mind you she was also suffering from cancer but the last couple weeks were rough.
Loser just loves to hear himself think out loud.
That rambling bullshit is not thinking.
Yeah, its more like how sometimes words will randomly appear when you stir your alphabet soup.