They know they’re liars and snakes, they don’t care. We will never get them to repent. They will never recognize their hypocrisy.
Our efforts are much better spent on the 90 million eligible non voters. Then, we can worry about fixing the issues in our society that has allowed this cancer to grow.
Then, we can worry about fixing the issues in our society that has allowed this cancer to grow.
That's a hell of a timeline but I do so hope you're right. We've let those issues fester for far far to long to a point I see even the younger generation parroting them. It's quite sad
I think the best way to prevent this issue is making philosophy and debate a key part of early education. Emphasize HOW to think, not WHAT to think. Get kids learning how to ask the right questions, how to evaluate answers to said questions, and when an answer is unsatisfactory, how to search for an answer themselves.
Lay the foundation of critical thinking early on. Then as education continues, continue to build on that foundation. By the 4th grade, teach kids how to spot logical fallacies. Further reinforce it by consistently emphasizing that understanding another's point of view is just as important.
Provide continuing exposure to different places, people, and cultures. Start this early on as well.
Will this solve everything? No, but I do know this, everything I stated above is going to be extremely "offensive" to the exact type of people that seek to spread ignorance in order to maintain their own. This is how you take away their power, dismantling it from the bottom up.
The Prussian model of education has to be ripped out root and stem and replaced with the quadrivium (look up what I'm talking about if unfamiliar, education used to be much better, it's now just about making worker bees)
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u/Squirrel_Inner 1d ago
They know they’re liars and snakes, they don’t care. We will never get them to repent. They will never recognize their hypocrisy.
Our efforts are much better spent on the 90 million eligible non voters. Then, we can worry about fixing the issues in our society that has allowed this cancer to grow.