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Alister Sutherland's avatar

Try watching some of the 'man on the street' interviews on youtube with Trump supporters at their own gatherings as well as outside his rallies. It would be amusing were it not so dispiriting and depressing to see such blatant, rampant ignorance and outright stupidity. The vast majority literally have no grasp or knowledge about their own country, its history, political or economic system.

How can it be that the wealthiest nation in human history has literally 10s of millions of citizens who lack the most basic education, most of whom are functionally illiterate and are unable to articulate even a modicum of a cogent sentence? They speak gobbledygook and can't even regurgitate what they hear on Fox News.

I know this little missive is largely rhetorical, but it's a damning indictment of the education system in America, as well as its economic and class systems, and speaks volumes about why the country is in the situation it is today.

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