| One thing that emerges from the Presidential campaigns this time is the fact that the American people are a mixed bag, some completely ready to entertain ideas that will guide our country during the next four years or more, but other people pretty much a train wreck of dashed illusions, fear, slightly below average intelligence, fear, clinging to stale dogmas and Fox Noise bombast for dear life. Many of both groups will fail to vote, but many who really have no business voting because they have no earthly idea what it is all about will vote. That's democracy in the 21st century and the 18th.
 The problem is education and honing a skill at something like "critical thinking." The corporate media are not at all interested in providing the whetstone. They are interested in market share and profits. They know that most Americans only weakly grasp the import of the passing events of the day, but they choose not to elaborate or to educate. Education is so politicized, they say, that they are better staying away from it.
Into this brew steps Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle with a ramble through the fogs of American indifference and unease.
JB |
