• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    I’m increasingly convinced that the US will never escape this pit of anti-intellectualism they’ve dug.

    • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
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      I don’t think they ever will, at least not as the US exists today. I can see a possible future in which the US fractures and Balkanises and then, the better off of those future-countries would maybe see a rejection of traditional US beliefs, values, and ways of thinking.

      But I can’t see that happening in the US today because keeping the people ignorant, gullible, and under a broken electoral system is highly beneficial to the ruling elite.

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      Not if Americans refuse to cast off the chains of their masters. Blissfully walking into slavery?