Human Nature

[Ivan Denisovich]

You could be right of course, although I disagree.  People who are well-enough educated are on their guard against common misperceptions, misinformation, and fallacies in thinking -- to which our common human nature makes us prone.  Many atheists posting in this forum are good examples of this standard.  It's like the difference between those who are vaccinated and those who aren't.

Hardly. People who are educated are simply better at rationalizing bullshit they believe in. One easily can be educated and maybe even expert in some subject and buy into conspiracies outside of relevant field of experience. Education does not guarantee wisdom and might even stump it if is arranged badly enough.

"Education is political"?  Only to those who want to make people think it is, i.e. the people who want to peddle disinformation.  Theists jump to mind.  Climate change, evolution, vaccinations, and other such information are considered matters of fact to the experts.

Of course it is. What is taught in schools is matter of policy and what "experts" think might easily be influenced by their political views. You try to use clear cut examples but consider economy or philosophy - when I was in school teachers were saying that low taxes are good and marxism is height of evil. That's however ideological and political stance not objective fact, just like myriads of other things taught in schools.

The reason why politicians often can't tackle our problems is that they lack the leverage to do so, largely because so many other politicians oppose them.  So politicians often need education too.  I don't think you could force people in a democracy if they were unwilling to change because they were poorly educated.  They would just vote for people who didn't make the same demands on them.  That, in fact, seems to be what has happened.

I disagree. What's more I view this alleged opposition as perfect excuse - they will stop us so we will not even bother to fight. But when one does not fight for what one deems right then how one can expect voters following him? I maintain that what stops politicians is lack of vision and satisfaction with status quo. From my pov it is no wonder that millions of Americans stayed home and others decided to tear down shit. trump certainly changes things (for the worse of course) and change is what many seems to want.