11-03-2016, 10:47 PM
(11-03-2016, 04:44 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-03-2016, 03:06 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Nate Silver's chart shows Hillary in free-fall; if trends continue as they are, Trump will be ahead by Nov.6.
The vast majority of the current US electorate scares the shit out of me. It's an indictment to most people's critical thinking skills to witness how fickle they are with such matters of importance.
This is a good reason to expand the educational norm of K-12 education to K-14, with expected courses in philosophy (to push formal logic), psychology (for showing the techniques of personal manipulation) and economics (the basic reality of much of human relationships).
Obviously if it is without charge to the student it can be regulated in content... but we could use more liberal-arts learning at the undergraduate learning anyway.
The better-educated people are much less likely to fall for any demagogue, Left or Right.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.