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k-dub

(97 posts)
3. The Democrats greatest challenge is how to get people smart again.
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 01:08 PM
Oct 2018

There is your problem. Intelligent inquiry and study is now mocked. The Republicans have trashed education, higher education, for years and years, stating it's nothing but Liberal propaganda. So anyone coming out of college who touts a progressive vision is dismissed as a Liberal propagandist. Of course, if a Conservative flies out of an institution of higher learning those people (like Ben Shapiro) are celebrated as brilliant thinkers. This is done with the media as well. State its Liberal propaganda so that anything a progressive would "support" can be cast aside as propaganda, but the first thing disseminated a Conservative would agree with is now all of a sudden hard facts.

Intelligence is not needed. Who did the Nazis persecute? The arts. The intelligentsia. However, NOT ALL within higher education in Germany were rooted out, those who towed the fascist line were used as "intellectual props" for the Nazi empire, while the system itself had been attacked.

We are barreling down toward a fascist state.

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A progressive vision, . . . and rooting out deep corruption, . . . empedocles Oct 2018 #1
Unfortunately corporatists in the party are at war with the progressives. LiberalLovinLug Oct 2018 #9
Please don't adopt trump's label of 'corporate democrat'. empedocles Oct 2018 #13
That's one of the MAIN things in messaging! calimary Oct 2018 #16
I agree! LiberalLovinLug Oct 2018 #22
"Earned benefits" is GREAT! calimary Oct 2018 #24
George Lakoff homegirl Oct 2018 #23
Abso-freakin'-lutely! calimary Oct 2018 #25
PLEASE Scubamatt Oct 2018 #26
Welcome to DU, Scubamatt! Thanks! calimary Oct 2018 #28
I don't take any definition Trump makes about anybody, least of all Democrats LiberalLovinLug Oct 2018 #18
The right has deceived the people into believing in them Loge23 Oct 2018 #2
The Democrats greatest challenge is how to get people smart again. k-dub Oct 2018 #3
Amen to your post. True Blue American Oct 2018 #11
And CONservatives get their voters.... SergeStorms Oct 2018 #12
Astounding, isn't it. calimary Oct 2018 #17
Looking like that blue wave is coming, huh? n/t kcr Oct 2018 #4
The blue wave, if it happens, is a reaction to the past two years. Yavin4 Oct 2018 #5
You have to understand those making the laws are True Blue American Oct 2018 #6
That's been true since the founding of the Republic Yavin4 Oct 2018 #8
Of course but not this bad True Blue American Oct 2018 #10
Yes, Kochs & Constitutional Convention. State votes important. All votes important. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2018 #7
You are correct but it needs to start with a firm hand lancelyons Oct 2018 #14
k and r Stuart G Oct 2018 #15
Very true...now that they are allied with the Russians unitedwethrive Oct 2018 #19
Republicans bucolic_frolic Oct 2018 #20
In the meantime, repudiate Republicans at the ballot box Every. Chance. You. Get. Beartracks Oct 2018 #21
yes, Yes, YES! The battle is MUCH bigger than stupid old Trump! machoneman Oct 2018 #27
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