"You don't have to think to vote for the Left, all you have to know is that you oppose Nazis."
This is the crux of the whole issue. Many people are too lazy to think. Others aren't particularly lazy, and in fact they care about the issue, but nothing they have ever run into in public school teaches them how to approach anything with logic or with a critical approach. It is the triumph of our liberal educators that they have bought so many votes for the left wing, that for the last hundred years they have deprived succeeding generations more and more of their right to be taught good thinking.
My generation, the generation of hippies, didn't start this. But they sure did exploit it. "School shouldn't teach you WHAT to think," ranted the laziest bunch of people ever to land on planet earth, "but HOW to think!" They pounded the table demanding the schools eliminate every minute of "teaching facts to the kids" that could possibly be eliminated. As for the "how to think" part of the curriculum, they replaced that with iconoclasm. It sufficed for them to tell one another (and their elders) that every generation that had come before theirs was stupid, ignorant, didn't know what Life was, didn't appreciate the virtues of hedonism, and insisted there was no such thing as truth (is that true?) and that therefore there was no way to find truth or help anyone else to find truth. Then they threw out all the books that could possibly teach anything and replaced them with Rousseau's child-centered curriculum, where suburban kids should read about suburban experiences, because that's all that they'd be interested in, and inner-city minority kids were fed garbage about drug dealers and prostitutes, appropriately outraging the mothers of these children, whom the hippies subsequently patronized to death.
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