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12. Lack of getting/understanding the basic concepts - "learning" things on the surface.

Reply to Arne (Reply #8)

Sun Dec 20, 2020, 01:12 AM

Dec 2020

And I'm not being condescending/elitist to them.

Part of things about their not focusing on education is subsistence, the economics - how they have to make a distinction between survival and their own best interests. KKKarl Rove's technique of getting people to vote against their best interests.

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We know this: DRUMPF will be gone, but the Deplorables will always be here. [View all] UTUSN Dec 2020 OP

I wouldn't call making sure that a history or govt curriculum points out the failures propaganda. Karadeniz Dec 2020 #1

"more honest what we've been/falling short" - UTUSN Dec 2020 #5

I can only go by the impressions I had in school. I was definitely not told that the electoral Karadeniz Dec 2020 #9

Yea, my eyes weren't totally closed but ZINN opened them wider. UTUSN Dec 2020 #11

What is ZINN? Karadeniz Dec 2020 #15

Howard ZINN, "A People's History of the U.S." UTUSN Dec 2020 #16

I think between the violence dweller Dec 2020 #2

Yip, seems like their own ignorance is self-defeating, in addition to their age. UTUSN Dec 2020 #4

Joe Biden has been termed a 'Kennedy Democrat'... Kid Berwyn Dec 2020 #3

Have always been here. Make no mistake they have not changed recently. bullimiami Dec 2020 #6

Yep Proud liberal 80 Dec 2020 #7

What happened to the brain of the Trump crowds? Arne Dec 2020 #8

Lack of getting/understanding the basic concepts - "learning" things on the surface. UTUSN Dec 2020 #12

the Deplorables have always been here Skittles Dec 2020 #10

Need a catch-all thread: Repuke party has forfeited *ALL* of their claimed principles UTUSN Dec 2020 #13

Every election cycle, it's the same group of assholes with a new name. Initech Dec 2020 #14