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In the article at the link below, the author, Marci A. Hamilton makes the same erroneous assumptions as the Founding Fathers, as they struggled to write into the Constitution phrases to prevent power grabs by unethical individuals and groups.
In the first two opening paragraphs, “There is a deep connection between education and a successful, well-run representative democracy.” and, “Voters need significant education to be able to judge the people to whom they delegate the power to make governing decisions and to assess how their governing system is operating. Without adequate education generally and specifically about representative democracy, the system itself is at risk.” that erroneous assumption becomes immediately clear.
As the framers looked to the future, they assumed the population of the growing nation would embrace knowledge, and through this expected enthusiasm for education, protect the government’s ability to serve only the public good from corruptive and dangerous influences.
The Founding Fathers were SO VERY WRONG. In the second half of the twentieth century a conservative movement began to take shape, one to denounce and condemn education and the educated. Right wing leaders sowed fear among the extremely religious, cultivating the deep concern that government was going to take away their rights to free expression of their faith.
In reality, the United States was, and still is, becoming more diverse in religious preferences, and certain laws based in the First Amendment have been passed to protect non-Christian individuals and groups from persecution by the predominantly Christian U.S. population.
To level the playing field, so-to-speak, public places were designated as “religion neutral”. This did not outlaw displays of any faith’s icons or symbols, it just meant public property was not available to promote any one religion.
With this, the well known knee-jerk conservative paranoia exploded and was exploited by the Republican Party. The GOP’s propaganda machine went to work convincing the uneducated and undereducated that their religious freedom was in jeopardy from the “educated elites” and that school curriculums other than those approved by the Christian church were a danger to their “Christian” nation.
The Founding Fathers assumption that education would be embraced and create the guidance necessary to protecting the people from the greedy and corrupt has been effectively erased in the minds of conservatives. It has been done so efficiently that most right-wingers believe they are MORE knowledgeable on all subjects than those people who have received formal teaching.
Conservatives refuse to accept empirical evidence in a widening range of subjects. Most are self-proclaimed experts in economics, constitutional law, international diplomacy, domestic policy, all scientific fields, history, you name the subject, most conservatives will have a steadfast opinion that follows the right wing agenda, and has little, if any, resemblance to proven facts.
The GOP created a valuable political tool in the proud disdain for education and the educated they’ve cultivated in their right wing voting base, and Donald Trump used this contempt for learning to win the support of the less educated white working class.
This is illustrated quite clearly in these two paragraphs from the article, “Trump, apparently tailoring his message to his less educated base, has made statements that indicate he need not respect the framers’ governing system, e.g., saying he would not concede if he lost the election. But if he won the election, he would happily accept the result of the system. His apparent inclination to respect the system according to the result is precisely the type of power grab the framers rightly feared and sought to deter.” and, “He also has implied that his supporters could or should use guns against Hillary Clinton, his rival. Again, he is advocating dealings with the government that go beyond the constitutional system into the fields of anarchy and ipse dixit power. His statements would have been the stuff of the framers’ nightmares.”
Unfortunately, the conservatives' chosen preference to avoid education, especially the knowledge of U.S. history, assures the Trump voters’ denial of these facts, just as it does nearly all other documented evidence. All they know and can cite are right wing falsehoods and talking points gleaned from the usual conservative sources.
Why are white, uneducated voters voting for Trump?
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People of reason and rational thought must not pay any attention to the Trump voters responses to this OP or any other posts. On November 8, 2016, they all proved they had the thought process of a grapefruit.
.
.
In the article at the link below, the author, Marci A. Hamilton makes the same erroneous assumptions as the Founding Fathers, as they struggled to write into the Constitution phrases to prevent power grabs by unethical individuals and groups.
In the first two opening paragraphs, “There is a deep connection between education and a successful, well-run representative democracy.” and, “Voters need significant education to be able to judge the people to whom they delegate the power to make governing decisions and to assess how their governing system is operating. Without adequate education generally and specifically about representative democracy, the system itself is at risk.” that erroneous assumption becomes immediately clear.
As the framers looked to the future, they assumed the population of the growing nation would embrace knowledge, and through this expected enthusiasm for education, protect the government’s ability to serve only the public good from corruptive and dangerous influences.
The Founding Fathers were SO VERY WRONG. In the second half of the twentieth century a conservative movement began to take shape, one to denounce and condemn education and the educated. Right wing leaders sowed fear among the extremely religious, cultivating the deep concern that government was going to take away their rights to free expression of their faith.
In reality, the United States was, and still is, becoming more diverse in religious preferences, and certain laws based in the First Amendment have been passed to protect non-Christian individuals and groups from persecution by the predominantly Christian U.S. population.
To level the playing field, so-to-speak, public places were designated as “religion neutral”. This did not outlaw displays of any faith’s icons or symbols, it just meant public property was not available to promote any one religion.
With this, the well known knee-jerk conservative paranoia exploded and was exploited by the Republican Party. The GOP’s propaganda machine went to work convincing the uneducated and undereducated that their religious freedom was in jeopardy from the “educated elites” and that school curriculums other than those approved by the Christian church were a danger to their “Christian” nation.
The Founding Fathers assumption that education would be embraced and create the guidance necessary to protecting the people from the greedy and corrupt has been effectively erased in the minds of conservatives. It has been done so efficiently that most right-wingers believe they are MORE knowledgeable on all subjects than those people who have received formal teaching.
Conservatives refuse to accept empirical evidence in a widening range of subjects. Most are self-proclaimed experts in economics, constitutional law, international diplomacy, domestic policy, all scientific fields, history, you name the subject, most conservatives will have a steadfast opinion that follows the right wing agenda, and has little, if any, resemblance to proven facts.
The GOP created a valuable political tool in the proud disdain for education and the educated they’ve cultivated in their right wing voting base, and Donald Trump used this contempt for learning to win the support of the less educated white working class.
This is illustrated quite clearly in these two paragraphs from the article, “Trump, apparently tailoring his message to his less educated base, has made statements that indicate he need not respect the framers’ governing system, e.g., saying he would not concede if he lost the election. But if he won the election, he would happily accept the result of the system. His apparent inclination to respect the system according to the result is precisely the type of power grab the framers rightly feared and sought to deter.” and, “He also has implied that his supporters could or should use guns against Hillary Clinton, his rival. Again, he is advocating dealings with the government that go beyond the constitutional system into the fields of anarchy and ipse dixit power. His statements would have been the stuff of the framers’ nightmares.”
Unfortunately, the conservatives' chosen preference to avoid education, especially the knowledge of U.S. history, assures the Trump voters’ denial of these facts, just as it does nearly all other documented evidence. All they know and can cite are right wing falsehoods and talking points gleaned from the usual conservative sources.
Why are white, uneducated voters voting for Trump?
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People of reason and rational thought must not pay any attention to the Trump voters responses to this OP or any other posts. On November 8, 2016, they all proved they had the thought process of a grapefruit.
.
.
