Compare/contrast American Presidential elections

[Eric the Green]

And we know however that Trump kept Hitler's book next to his bed, and read and absorbed its lessons.

We know that the first step in dumbing down America is to replace the public schools with a voucher program for private schools. The Republicans have been pushing this for decades, along with libertarians, and succeeding in Middle America (but not CA). It sounds OK, but ending public schools means that the vouchers can be reduced or turned off too, and the public has no control. Who pays for all that's needed in a school? Individual responsibility, right? So, teachers and students must provide all the materials, and teaching standards are left up more often to the schools. Most of the private schools are religious schools. A country of private schools is education only for the wealthy. An uneducated public will be easy prey for the "populists" who are not populists, but only the most popular. But why not? After all, public schools is socialism, right?

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There are many ways that the Republicans and New Democrats have used to dumb down the people. For example, removing the fairness doctrine meant that radio talk shows could be as slanted and biased as they wanted to be. Concentration of media has meant taking away public affairs from the radio entirely, except for right-wing talk shows that boost public support for the corporate world that owns them. The media cabal have largely reduced TV news to entertainment. Now even the best network news only featured news for the first half of the program, and ABC has reduced real news to almost zero. Pundit talk shows are disappearing on PBS, and news magazine shows have become solely entertainment outlets, whether crime stories or entertainment news.