Countries get the politicians they deserve...WTH did we do a past life to be stuck with this rabble?

[Soph0571]

The election of the Emperor Donald the Dangerous, and the coup by the far right in the UK can, in my opinion, clearly be linked to the lack of proper investment in education in low skilled low-income populations for at least the last 3 decades. Generally, low information voters tend to stay at home as they are generally unable to see the relevance of politics in their daily lives. The far-right populists in our nations were quick to recognise and exploit this. Using the media, social media and Russian troll bots to manipulate these cohorts was always an obvious play for these disruptors.

I would hazard a guess that interrogating the political beliefs of the average Chump or Brexit voter will only lead to the 3 second sound bites we have all come to despise…

‘Build That Wall’

‘Take Back Control’

Yes. They are that shallow. Intellectually shallow voters lead to the bollocks we have in power at the moment.

It is almost like they had planned it….



Heh

[SeaTownBlue]

1. We Didnt Jail Bush Cheney

Next question?

[leftstreet]

3. +1

[HipChick]

2. Let me see...how about stealing land from Native Americans?

Inhumane Slavery of black people...
This land had blood on it's hands, it might never see any peace..

[hunter]

7. These horrors were glossed over in our history books.

The history lessons I got in public schools during the 'sixties and early 'seventies, even here in "progressive" California, were bullshit.

There are still many kids who freak out on their first exposure to a "radical" college history professor, anyone who teaches U.S. history horrors and all, anyone who would ask why Andrew Jackson is on a twenty dollar bill, or why Trump would place Jackson's portrait in the Oval Office.

This is why Republicans hate any public education beyond simple reading and writing and arithmetic, the bare minimum required for a worker to function in conditions of wage slavery.

Wealthy "conservatives" want their workers to believe everything is as it's always been, that there's no such thing as evolution or progress in society, or even biology.

[HipChick]

9. Worst for me...complete white washed...

"This land was taken, it has blood on it's hands..it might never known any peace.."

[ecstatic]

4. I've thought about that... in many ways, it's probably all karma.

Disgusting/deplorable start, disgusting/deplorable end.

It's not fair to most Americans who believe in this country's potential, it's ideals, and have not conducted themselves in a deplorable manner... but... it is what it is...

[emmaverybo]

5. The Cambodian people did not deserve Pol Pot. And plenty of other examples. We had a perfect

storm with at least a few tipping points.

There is work ahead to protect against against a hostile foreign country attacking our democratic election process. Let’s not blame the victim. He did not win fairly.

[a la izquierda]

6. Dunno...

Maybe ask the tens of thousands of dead Latin Americans whose only misfortune was living at the same time as Henry Kissinger and his ilk.

[DFW]

8. Maybe it's a late payback for the English and the Spaniards bringing diseases to North America

Karma, after all, has no time schedule to adhere to.