Gunner wrote:

Though the educational system is run by liberals.

And kept bled dry of sufficient funding

[with cries of "tax and spend, tax and
spend" from those whose "don't-tax and still
spend" habits have created the massive
US-economy-crippling national debt that
sucks away all the needed venture capital to
remain a first world economy, today]

to educate children enough to know better than to
elect reactionary science-luddites, by whom?

Oh, yes, the right wing.

What a coincidence that the very same right wing is
pushing so hard to get public funding of private,
faith-based science-luddite educational
institutions, to continue producing a bumper crop
of ignoramuses brainwashed and dense enough to vote
for the so-called "conservatives" who cannot see
their way clear to conserving, say, constitutional
rights and human freedoms, but prefer to trample
them instead in favor of converting the US into a
no-privacy theocracy the exact equivalent of the
Iran against whom we ready today to wage yet
another needless war.

FWIW

xanthian.

Producing stupid people as an educational staple is
arguably not a "survivalist" trait at the level of
nations, and nations which do not survive find
their citizens enslaved to the nations that do.

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today! Almost 6,000 years-worth is available in
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Don't be left out, get some now on the easy "free"
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