We can't count on the media to educate the population, or even to act fairly, due to the fact that (again) these are the types of issues that need to be decided by a government. If we are to bring back the fairness doctrine, or enact some legislation that would make for a climate of real journalism again, in an age when real journalism is practically unable to financially survive, it will require government intervention.

In other words, the media is also a symptom of the problem of bad voting choices. The voting population being better educated, and making better choices, is a prerequisite to the media returning to form. It won't happen first.

Why do they need to think when we can do that for them...we after all know best.

we after all know best.

That said, Republicans are to blame for the sad state of education in this country.

I watched a report about online schools (they're classified as charter schools). The kids enrolled have terrible attendance yet the 'school' reports them as attending so they can get funding. If we grow dumb kids we get a dumb electorate.

If we grow dumb kids we get a dumb electorate.

That's how it's happened throughout history.

We've come full circle back to my point.

We're on the edge though. We've got to make significant changes and educate our children about human nature, our planet, our history, and how our government works or there will be another Trump. Maybe his equally craven daughter in 10 years or so.

Maybe it is inevitable, based on history, that democratic societies cannot be sustained. Eventually the assholes figure out how to dominate everyone else.

In those games where you have say $10,000 to split between a few people. You can decide to split it evenly, or try to take it all for yourself, but you are blind to the decision that the other people make.

If everyone agrees to split it, everyone gets an equal share. If one person decides to try to take it, and everyone else agrees to split it, that person takes it all. If more than one person decide to take it, everyone loses everything.

For an analogy, for a democracy to be successful, everyone needs to agree to split it. We have too many people that will be that guy who decides to take it. Sometimes they succeed and get everything, sometimes they just ruin it for everyone else, but either way the majority get screwed.

Based on seeing this game play out many times, it may just be human nature that more times than is good for us there will be at least one person to be the troll.

Was it not? They did not trust the will of the people. Nor should they, the masses can be easily swayed. Electoral college changes over the years morphed it into something that no longer really has a whole lot of teeth but in it's original form the popular vote really did not mean much.

Think about the neoconservative murderers he is ticking off. Recipe for disaster.