School and politics
Has anyone noticed that most of the states with the worst politicians are usually the ones with the worst educational standards and test scores in the country?
It's not always true, but I look at some of the states which are often bastions of extreme right politics and extreme right religion, and notice that those states are most often in the bottom quarter of all the test scores in the country.
It's also areas where the extreme right focuses on single issue voters, where critical thinking skills aren't exactly high on the agenda, and where teaching creationism often trumps actual science and evolution.
Am I wrong? It just seems to be that it's a pattern which isn't often discussed, perhaps because everyone is trying to be careful to be politically correct. How can the truth (if it IS the truth) be considered politically incorrect? Have we gone beyond common sense if we try to deny that a larger part of the voting public is undereducated or uneducated to be even knowledgeable about what they're voting means?
It seems to me that Repugs love that fact, and make extensive use of appealing to voters based on emotional issues, and not on the actual, logical and critical outcome of their votes.
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