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Democracy requires an educated electorate

Posted: Mar 2, 2016

I recently learned that the reason education through high school in our country was "free," (though obviously paid for by taxes) was because in order for democracy to work, you have to have a well-educated electorate, i.e., you can't turn over the decision-making process to people who are not well informed. Looking at the demographics of the Trump supporters, which reveal that so many are NOT well educated, and not well informed enough to see that a President of the United States needs to have better qualifications than Trump has, seems to really be proving that point.

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Obama low information voters get a pass? - sm

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Truly hypocritical. Low information voters gave Obama the White House twice. What's that old saying Karma is a _itch? Time for the adults to take over the country.

Instead of asking for voter ID - old and burned out

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why don't we just ask what are the 3 branches of government?

This is not a democracy; it's a Republic. You Tube has best of - Obama voters, see how "brilliant"

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they are, including...

Free money, no work. Ambassador Stevens had it coming in Libya. Benghazi is a person.

My favorites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm5QIq-1U-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpv0lPz-pd4

AND the every classic Obama phone lady...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio

Actually, a democratic republic. Not something - we need to quibble about in this context.

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Don't forget about Obama's personal gaffes that - aren't simply a slip of the tongue.

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Many of these include foreign policies mistakes.

I think he says what the teleprompter tells him to say. A few for your reading pleasure.

I've now been in 57 states.

The reforms we seek would bring greater inefficiencies in our healthcare system.

Europe is a country (it's not, it's a continent made up of countries).

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's.

He gets a pass by the MSM.

Then, there's his breathtaking snobbishness.

Simple rural folks and other proletarians who cling to guns or religion...

Typical white person who sees a person on he other side of the street...

Then he goes to another country and makes fun of Americans.

The list is endless.

Education is the key. We don't have that now. What we - have is indoctrination.

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Students are taught what to think, not how to think.

Just look at the college campus today. Look how hostile they are to conservative opinions. Free speech it USED to be called.

Colleges are just like any other business. They seek to maximize profits for the least amount of capital investment. They found their niche by getting students to take out ridiculous government loans to pay for essentially worthless “education”, and run a racket with business through the concept of meritocracy.

So enter Bernie Sanders. "Free college" for all. So these college can essentially charge whatever they want because govt will pay. Just like healthcare.

I feel sorry for the next generation.

A well-educated electorate requires educators who love - America and The Constitution,

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many of the professors we have in colleges went into teaching because then you could get of out going to Vietnam if you went into teaching.

So we have people behind the scenes who are not pro-America "re-educating" and undermining the Constitution.

If a Founding Father miraculously appeared in our world today, he would probably be shocked at the size of government and all the social atrocities that exist in our modern society.

The greatest problem with the Constitution is that no - written document can prevail

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against the ill will of a majority who wish to subvert it, and certainly that majority exists today.

Typical republican Neanderthal view. Education bad. - nm

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Typical darwin worshipping master race view by - Liberals. Besides there's never

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never been any evidence of Neanderthal inferiority, that began as an invention of R. Virchow.

I apologize to the Neanderthals. - nm

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All you have to do is look around and see the fruits of - wrong education in the United

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States and where it is leading.

Freedom of speech comes with a responsibility to tell the truth.

Drive and discipline will serve you better than - an expensive education.

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That kind of thinking sounds like elites and snobs in Washington, - Harvard and Yale "educated"

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who come out of college all thinking the same way and knowing the same people. They have no idea why those of us who graduated from the school of hard knocks are fed up.

We are sick of being marginalized and laughed at by Washington insiders and Liberal elitists who all trained at the same schools and all think the same way.

Not informed? Look at thousands of Obama voters.

Alexis De Toqueville came to America to study - a situation not unlike what we

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have today. His conclusions were very pertinent to our situation today. The French revolution took over an existing powerful central government. Ours created a new condition working from the small town governments up with a very weak (by design) central government. He was not optimistic about the future if the power was reversed.

Now we DO have a powerful centralized government.

The American Revolution was all about Americans wanting to keep what was theirs, and not liking to be taxed and ordered about by far-off England, for the benefit of the English elites. It was a revolution of the American middle class against those who wanted their stuff.

The French Revolution involved the seizing of the property of the old elites, and degenerated into a fight over who would have power over those appropriated assets. It was a revolution of the underclass, to seize and redistribute wealth. As such, it resembled the later Russian Revolution.

We are headed towards the second.

Iceland also recently had a mini revolution...sm - VTMT

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When their banks caused an economic meltdown (much like here) the bankers were sentenced to jail, debts forgiven, and the banks sold off and the profits distributed to all the citizens. It is called a government of, by and FOR the people.

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