A proper education is self education. Part of the problem is too many American expect others to educate them.
And the ‘dumbing down’ of basic concepts feeds this. Rather than Glen Beck dumbing down politics he should be trying to raise the bar, make people think and research on their own, like Rush.
Spoon feeding the masses doesn’t help the underlying problems. This complacency and expectation of others doing your research for you is what has gotten us into this mess. People believe what the see on TV and don’t bother to find out if it is actually true.
As a teenager, I got into a situation that has haunted me for years because I took what some other people said something meant rather than looking at both sides and really doing my own research.
Several years later, I started researching the topic and found out that I was lied to and got out of the situation. That experience made me VERY, VERY careful to research everything and don’t believe what I am told, or what is on TV, or what I read, that trait has also made me a good historian, a hardcore Conservative and a devout Christian.
I sense NOTHING about Reagan in what you write. So maybe yous hould change your screen name to ReaganNOT.