This statement is very elitist. The bill of rights defines the rights of everyone, not just the “educated”. No country has a perfectly educated populace.
The first time you wrote this appeared to be sarcasm. Repeating it five times has dispelled that misapprehension, but the claim has become no more convincing.
USA has more college graduates (and "some college" non-graduates who still owe on their student loans) than ever before. You're right that education is a fine venue for gaining experience in dealing with lies, but these are not the only Americans who have the fortune of such exposure. There are also plenty of lies in every other facet of human life: church, business, news media, social gatherings, children's playgrounds, etc. Far more dangerous than this ever-changing cacophony of various lies, would be a single lie heard forever. (Or maybe five times in a single thread?)
Jennifer, are you really saying that the very government that has blatantly lied us into every war during your lifetime should be responsible for determining what narratives and information are available to the broader, uneducated public?
What would you say defines "educated?" I hold no college degree, but have spend my 65 years reading extensively, on a wide range of subjects, from authors with wide-ranging socio-political views, and in converse with highly intelligent people with varying areas of interest and study.
I suggest that a recent B.A. in Grievance Studies is unlikely to produce as well-educated an individual - nor as well-developed an intellect - as my path has.
I have to say this again since you keep making this nonsense statement - the "educated" are most often merely indoctrinated into groupthink. As we saw the past 3 years. They believed the most astounding rubbish - like lockdowns are science-based, masks are science-based, natural immunity doesn't exist for covid etc ad nauseum - and persecuted the people who were right.
So - you're 100% wrong, and are making yourself look silly.
And most "educated" people in most "educated" countries did exactly the same thing as the US "educated." Buckley was right - better to be governed by names randomly drawn from a phone book than this "educated" class.
This works IF you have an educated populace BUT you don't!
This statement is very elitist. The bill of rights defines the rights of everyone, not just the “educated”. No country has a perfectly educated populace.
The first time you wrote this appeared to be sarcasm. Repeating it five times has dispelled that misapprehension, but the claim has become no more convincing.
USA has more college graduates (and "some college" non-graduates who still owe on their student loans) than ever before. You're right that education is a fine venue for gaining experience in dealing with lies, but these are not the only Americans who have the fortune of such exposure. There are also plenty of lies in every other facet of human life: church, business, news media, social gatherings, children's playgrounds, etc. Far more dangerous than this ever-changing cacophony of various lies, would be a single lie heard forever. (Or maybe five times in a single thread?)
Jennifer, are you really saying that the very government that has blatantly lied us into every war during your lifetime should be responsible for determining what narratives and information are available to the broader, uneducated public?
What would you say defines "educated?" I hold no college degree, but have spend my 65 years reading extensively, on a wide range of subjects, from authors with wide-ranging socio-political views, and in converse with highly intelligent people with varying areas of interest and study.
I suggest that a recent B.A. in Grievance Studies is unlikely to produce as well-educated an individual - nor as well-developed an intellect - as my path has.
I have to say this again since you keep making this nonsense statement - the "educated" are most often merely indoctrinated into groupthink. As we saw the past 3 years. They believed the most astounding rubbish - like lockdowns are science-based, masks are science-based, natural immunity doesn't exist for covid etc ad nauseum - and persecuted the people who were right.
So - you're 100% wrong, and are making yourself look silly.
And most "educated" people in most "educated" countries did exactly the same thing as the US "educated." Buckley was right - better to be governed by names randomly drawn from a phone book than this "educated" class.