12-29-2016, 08:37 AM
(12-29-2016, 03:36 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-24-2016, 02:35 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(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"?
That is pretty much what we have had for the last eight years with (President Obama -- insulting deprecation removed).
Say what you want about President Obama, but in 2008 and 2012, voting for him correlated positively with educational achievement, much the opposite of what used to be the norm. Even in 1964 Barry Goldwater got a majority of the vote among people with college degrees.
Barack Obama understands the complexity of political, economic, and legal reality; Donald Trump simplifies that rhetorically. Should his deeds match his rhetoric, then we stand to get lots of wrong answers to the challenges of the day.
Rigid ideologies fail to solve problems.
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.