12-24-2016, 02:35 AM
(12-23-2016, 04:00 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-22-2016, 08:43 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Furthermore, if the electorate gets even more dumbed down between now and 2020, The Electoral College may end up being the salvation of the nation.
Lets hope it doesn't come to that.
Oh, so you want a dumbed-down electorate that accepts every lie by the "Great and Glorious Leader"?
Yes, the sort of electorate that loved Mussolini, loved Hitler, loved Stalin, and loved Saddam.
It is hard to see anything more obvious than that Donald Trump won because of support by white people either too dumb or too intellectually-lazy to read between the lines. I expect reality to hit Americans hard, and when it does they will see the clay feet of the idol. They will recognize the inhumanity of an economic ideology that sacrifices poor people to the god Mammon. As plutocracy hurts them much as a child-molester does by inflicting shame and pain that no child should ever feel, they will come to hate Donald Trump. When his diplomatic and military bumbling comes back in the form of body bags containing the barely grown-up children of people who voted for Donald Trump they will start to know how bad he is.
When this is all over Americans will recognize the value in education that does more than prepare people for narrow roles of employment for harsh exploiters. We need people able to recognize propaganda for what it is, to insist upon fact-checking of authorities, and to see bigotry for what it is.
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.