• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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    1 day ago

    Americans are relentlessly propagandized about how great we have it, and I guess our best option is to believe it, because the alternative is to cry over just how deeply shitty so much of the country actually is.

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      It truly helps the rich when the average adult reading level hovers around 5th grade and we’ll over 60% of Americans have never had to learn about logic, ethics, critical thinking, or how rights are earned by a strong citizenship.

      When the public is just ignorant of how to do basic thinking, what the history of liberty is, or how rights are earned & kept by the People by taking collective action against the rich you get a crumbling society sliding back into serfdom.