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Was there a time in history where people actually had a basic understanding of civics and history?

How do we invest so much in to education but still produce borderline illiterates?
It gets pocketed by teachers' unions and used for keeping Democrats in office. And the education standards keep getting lower because "it's too haaaaard!"
 
Was there a time in history where people actually had a basic understanding of civics and history?

How do we invest so much in to education but still produce borderline illiterates?
Even worse, we have the World Wide Web in our fingertips. Hundreds of millions worth of information that can be accessible in a click of a button, yet we are still ignorant of history or context?

This was supposed to be the Information Age, yet information is suppressed, gatekeeped, deleted or rewritten beyond its original context or intent.
 
Living in a different state is racist now.

Huh, what do you know? Slave owners wanted them to count as "people" so they can be ordered to vote as their master tells them. But the alternative is just as dehumanizing and racist as the original intent.

Just like today I suppose.
You just described a common practice that still happens down here in my region in Brazil.
Back in the Old Republic years, in the early part of the 20th Century, land owners required their workers to vote for either them or their associates under threat of either expropriation or outright death, a practice that survived in a way. We call it "horse halter vote". Guess what, the left wing uses it wonderfully in the poorest parts of the Northeast region of Brazil, where I live, whereas other regions mostly vote for other candidates due to usefulness or shallow promises.
 

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Thanks for ruining a good movie.
 
Was there a time in history where people actually had a basic understanding of civics and history?

How do we invest so much in to education but still produce borderline illiterates?
Because it's a feature, not a bug. The American education system was designed from the beginning to produce successively dumber generations, with the end goal being to wear down anything that stops someone from being a good little cog in the system. Before the dawn of public education, Americans were known worldwide for their love of reading, with an effectively universal literacy rate. But once we adopted the educational models that took inspiration from the fucking Indian caste system, literacy plummeted and students began to learn and understand less and less. This is why it's hilarious when people ask what's wrong with the educational system, because to those in charge, it's working fine. The elites send their kids to private schools where they actually get an education so that they can rule over the dumb masses. The system itself isn't intended to teach kids anything, which is why no matter how much money gets thrown at education, results get worse and worse every year.

I can't stress enough that people should read The Underground History of American Education by J.T. Gatto (link is a free PDF). It's a major eye-opener with regards to our educational system, how and why it's failing kids. And the fact it was written twenty years ago should tell you how bad things have gotten. It's more relevant now than ever.
 
You just described a common practice that still happens down here in my region in Brazil.
Back in the Old Republic years, in the early part of the 20th Century, land owners required their workers to vote for either them or their associates under threat of either expropriation or outright death, a practice that survived in a way. We call it "horse halter vote". Guess what, the left wing uses it wonderfully in the poorest parts of the Northeast region of Brazil, where I live, whereas other regions mostly vote for other candidates due to usefulness or shallow promises.
I knew you were Brazilian but I didn't realise you were in the north east, the stronghold of corrupt socialists and gangsters. That's a rough life. At least southern Brazil has some areas which are relatively more respectable.
 
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