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Is that how it went down back then?
Maybe you're right. I just have trouble imagining the future where my family ever moves on from this shitstain of a human
Two things.
First, I think it will be glorious when people finally realize they've been had. Lincoln said you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. MTG is already ahead of the curve and getting her axe ready.
Second, there used to be a course called 'Civics' that every high school student learned. You were taught the Constitution, the history of how the different Parties formed, and got a basic understanding of the mechanics of how elections worked. They started phasing that out during the Reagan era, because of course they did.
Well you put a lot of stock in the larger population's ability to self reflect. I really wish I could have your optimism.
Yeah we would be looking at a very different present if the project of destroying education to let private interests redefine reality never came to fruition, but here we are