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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA young Trumpster told my daughter " Get with the program this is the 20th century!"-
My daughter told him. " No. This is the 21st century." Then he told her " Look it's 2017 NOT 2117 dumbass!"
Trumpster logic?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)They're not terribly bright AND they live in the past.
More_Cowbell
(2,192 posts)And sadly, our young people are not going to become MORE educated.
mdbl
(4,976 posts)and we all know with religion comes ignorance.
tomp
(9,512 posts)mdbl
(4,976 posts)the post I responded to was about being educated. In the US, it seems people vote for weird politicians that would rather teach fantasy in our schools than reality. So if you want to call me "broad brush" I couldn't give a hoot. I don't care if your Christian, Hindu, or Muslim - it doesn't belong in our public institutions - period.
rug
(82,333 posts)Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)with science, education and learning. In the older ones religion and not being ignorant go hand in hand.
Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)quickly lower our labor rates to compete with the 3rd world. It also makes us more likely to be religious because less educated people tend to attribute mysterious unknowns to a Deity.
Norbert
(6,043 posts)and, of course, like the orange dickhead, Hannity is never ever ever wrong.
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)My personal favorite:
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)catbyte
(34,546 posts)malaise
(269,328 posts)They are 'morans'.
barbtries
(28,824 posts)JHB
(37,166 posts)...while providing a textbook example of Dunning-Krueger effect.
DFW
(54,506 posts)We have 10% of the population that can write books, invent smart phones and Tesla cars, speak foreign languages and tell the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution, and 90% that couldn't even name the states that border on their own (which is probably why Hawaii always votes Democratic).
VOX
(22,976 posts)And WWII was waged in the 19th century.
Has this wet-behind-the-ears whelp ever watched a vintage movie by 20th Century Fox studio? Is he old enough to recall Y2K?
Fuggit, let him wear his ignorance with pride.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Ligyron
(7,645 posts)Unfortunately...
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . . when you pay fealty to a party that relies on 20th century Reagan blueprint problem-solving, it's easy to get confused.
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)like snowflakes.
But all the knowledge in the world won't stop them from sending us to the camps when they get a chance
Crowman2009
(2,507 posts)I say we should let them learn the hard way. Unfortunately, idiots like these won't learn until Drumpf kills a bunch of their friends or family members.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)That dumbing down of Merika keeps paying off in spades. Just wait until they get rid of the Dept of Ed completely...
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)it was still the 20th century.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)nikibatts
(2,198 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)yellowcanine
(35,705 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)We are becoming Idiocracy.