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Meghan R's avatar

One of my things is every person should take a class in basic economics before graduating high school. It’s stunning how even some, very well educated people have zero clue how any of this works and then are like constantly like wait what?! I can’t tell you how many people I’ve had to explain simple concepts like interest rates, inflation and supply/ demand. And some of these people have masters degrees!

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Dave's avatar

and Civics!

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Dan-o's avatar

And every person should have to work the polls for two or three elections before they can vote, kind of like the peace corps. That immunize us from the incredible BS spread by TFG. We might not be in this situation now if we did this.

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eah's avatar

My tenant is a poll worker and is firmly convinced the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. She believes her many years of being a poll worker gives her more insight into voting than most people have. She thinks Bill O'Reilly and Tucker Carlson are "really smart." So I wouldn't count on being a poll worker to prevent the American voter from being susceptible to brainwashing.

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