Pretty much every single problem that we as a nation are suffering through right now can be traced to one very important [but often ignored] fact: Anti-intellectualism.
Or to put it another way, the glorification and outright hero-worship of the purposely uneducated and/or the willfully stupid.
Harlan Ellison once said that the two most common elements in the universe were hydrogen and stupidity - and he was not wrong. It doesn't take a genius to come to the conclusion that all of our current ills could be more than halved tomorrow if we enforced laws already on the books, embraced Democratic Socialism, installed universal healthcare, went back to taxing the uber-wealthy, protected and increased Social Security and other programs meant to assist rather than to shame people, and poured more available resources into education rather than the military.
The main obstacle keeping us from having these things are The Stupid.
What makes things even worse, The Stupid are backed by the Uber-Wealthy, who use them... let me emphasize that, USE THEM as cannon-fodder, voices of propaganda and roadblocks on the path to progress.
In short, millions of us are being held hostage by a small group of individuals who, if NOT fabulously wealthy, would be living in trailers on the outskirts of town, hoarding piles of useless crap. The only difference between the old coot living in a fortress of old newspapers & pizza boxes and Donald Trump is that Trump is better at conning his fellow dummies into believing all his crazy talk. Beyond that, they are one and the same.
And that's who's currently running the show.
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