(May 26, 2017 at 7:42 am)LastPoet Wrote: A few years ago, we had a forum rumble about how US citizens were demonized for GW Bush. how unfair the smug european critics were and all that jazz. I am in Portugal, Our capital city is Madrid, should you decide to bomb us.
Heh, its the failure of democracy. If you have a majority of dumb uninformed uneducated people voting,...
What neds to be done is to give formal education in schools, increase the level of awareness so that people can think critically without falling to easy demagoguery.
I have long maintained that courses in logic and rhetoric (in addition to 'civics' and history) are essential to a properly educated populace -- especially one with a political system such as ours. But that's a hard sell, at best, when we already are doing such a poor job teaching the current curriculum.
