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To: ProgressingAmerica
The mass of absolutely illiterate, of feeble-minded, grossly neurotic, undernourished and frustrated individuals, is very considerable, much more considerable there is reason to think than we generally suppose. Thus a wide popular appeal is circulated among persons who are mentally children or barbarians

Trillions spent on 'education' and nothing has changed.

2 posted on 07/29/2011 12:49:17 PM PDT by relictele (Pax Quaeritur Bello)
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To: relictele

Why would it? As progressive educators dumb down the curricula, these progressive journalists dumb down the news. They’re creating the very thing they despise the most, then blame us for being stupid because in the end, we still won’t do what they want us to do.


3 posted on 07/29/2011 1:09:47 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (What's the best way to reach a you tube generation? Put it on you tube!)
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To: relictele

Our Founding Fathers, who restricted the vote to property owners, may not have disagreed with Lippmann all that much. The problem is not elites, per se, but rather a decline in the quality of said elite.


4 posted on 07/29/2011 1:11:56 PM PDT by I Shall Endure
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To: relictele
He already made it clear that he views portions of the populace as "mentally children and barbarians", and "grossly neurotic"

Do you disagree?

5 posted on 07/29/2011 2:41:00 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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