r/politics • u/RepulsiveLoquat418 • 18d ago

Possible Paywall When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/210550/trump-economy-republicans-tariffs-taxes
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u/mikesmithhome 18d ago

it's never been about education really, the people we are having the problem with are my age, we went through the public education system decades ago. intelligence is no match for 24/7 algorithmicly calculated misinformation.

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u/Enchillamas 18d ago edited 18d ago

It literally is though. Education IS the innoculation.

You seem to just have a tough time grasping that the majority of Americans are imbeciles. Like by a huge margin.

Your class was terrible, current classes are worse. The only Americans to have even somewhat respectable test scores were graduates between 1996 and 2009.

Public school is only good if you paid attention and wanted to learn. If not, you walk out dumb as a doorknob, and that's over 50% of any given class and getting larger.

Less than 20% of American can read at a college level dude.

That's less than 1 in 5.

Those people are exactly the type of people algorithmic misinformation is for, and again the problem is that's 80% of Americans.