 papananook says: The problem of lack of education...or something... Goes back to the interests who control the parties with their donations. They don't want thinking Presidents to mess up their rich world so they make sure they put puppets in place. Sure, some have a bit of charisma or espouse the good line, but modern leaders don't leave much of a mark. Bush and Palin are so obvious that it amazes me the way the unthinking follow them. The others such as Clinton and maybe Obama have their policies written for them by backers and use the rubber stamp. Chomsky has written some stuff on this, I think. Howard was obvious here, Rudd is not much less subtle. Cable TV, nintendo, and XBOX. My father grew up on a 160 acre patch of dirt in northwest nowhere Oklahoma in the depression. But his father read a newspaper to him (every time they had a newspaper) and the focus was on international activities that were leading to World War II. World War II focused people on international activities. This was the spark that led to my parents living overseas for 12 years and traveling the world culminating in being associate director of international programs for a university. Now a huge chunk of the US is inwardly focused not giving a damn about anything not American and even believing ridiculous tag lines for Republican campaigns like Bushes 2000-2004 "Eu... You were lucky to have such a well-informed Father and Grandpa...it's truly sad how the culture in the USA actually glorifies being stupid.. TV is mostly to blame...From the days of Hee-Haw to Jerry Springer...TV is the culprit when it comes to people NOT reading and the programmers are complicit in keeping the populace dumb and "happy" so they won't catch on to how profoundly they are being screwed by the corporate Military industrial complex. The problem is that they have been "fixing" education since 1960. It needs to be 'un-fixed' so we will not have the end results that show up in the comments of so many products of the exceptional education system in America. But that is nothing, wait until they "fix" healthcare. I hesitate to agree with anythin you say, Willie--so I won't. But there are sure a lot of dumbasses running around who don't know their elbow from their ass...I survived a public education but then my parents wanted me to think for myself and gave me books--Altas, Encyclopedia, classics science Fiction---all good stuff to read. You should have taken them up on the offer. The "they" in our state are conservatives and they F* up school just as much as anybody else. Sacrifice arts, music, and physical education at the alter of tax cuts. Willie being a pissant again. My public school produced a pulitzer prize winner, an editor for the New Yorker magazine, a lawyer who has argued before the supreme court, a dean of students at a major university, and more. But of course, my public school was in the liberal oasis of the state. If we need any compass as to how screwy Rethuglicans are just look at Palin. and Bill Cristol...what a coupla douche pukers. |
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