(not my image. I just find these comical and incredibly dangerous)

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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

This isn't a problem with Americans. Every country has idiots. This just happens to be one of ours.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    But some countries have many more idiots per capita.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    Here in the US, we've been cultivating idiocy with a long standing anti-education movement in the Republican party.

    More exactly, there are a multiple intersecting movements:
    ~ No public education / No education for the poors
    ~ Religious (Christian nationalist ideology) education for all
    ~ Charter schools as grift
    ~ Obey authority. Trust the state.

    And these figured into the instant army that rallied to Trump in 2015-2016 from the rest of the Republican party. Principal figures from the party watched their own ideology collapse, and there was nothing they could do about it.

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