“The dumbing down is so patently obvious to me it’s jaw-dropping.”
Yes, but not if you’ve been run through the school system lately. What is patently obvious to you and me is not to younger Americans. And, when they vote, bad things happen.
“Yes, but not if you’ve been run through the school system lately. What is patently obvious to you and me is not to younger Americans. And, when they vote, bad things happen.”
Aside from working with my own kids, the only thing I know to do is gently let young people know that I think they are exceedingly pathetic for not knowing things like, say, the three branches of our government, or how to return change.
Maybe it will motivate one or two of them to pick up a book.