Time to wear your shitty logic...

[PatrickforO]

13. Actually, very few people do, and most cannot even define the word 'fallacy,'

let alone identify different types of fallacies.

I blame this primarily on the conservative 'christians' who have worked very hard to voucherize schools and to be able to finance their children's education in 'christian' schools with public tax dollars. Not to mention the massive corporate money that began purposely changing the dialog in this country with the 1971 Lewis Powell Memo to the US Chamber of Commerce, followed by Reagan's 1987 pocket veto of the Fairness Doctrine, Citizens United, Super Pacs, the manufactured consent of our corporate-owned media, and finally the merchants of doubt paid by corporations to publish pseudo-scientific studies to cast doubt on things like the dangers of asbestos, tobacco, and carbon emissions.

If we really wanted to solve a lot of problems, we'd get rid of the primacy of the shareholder doctrine, which Warren is trying to do by introducing the Accountable Capitalism Act (August 2018), which would expand fiduciary responsibility of CEOs in publicly held companies beyond shareholder earnings to also encompass worker, consumer and environmental welfare. It would solve a lot of problems, that.

Unfortunately, back to your point, it won't do much to smarten up what Stephen King calls 'the Great Stupid.' We kind of have to do that ourselves through grass roots efforts with local school boards and so on.