So I was reading the story about the 47 US Senators who sent a letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran and I was completely embarrassed as a US Citizen. How did we get to a point in our political system where undermining the President publicly in the face of our fellow Earthlings seems like a good idea? As I blame most of the breakdown of our country on our shit education system, so too can I blame this.
Here is my thought process.
We passed this "great" education reform where by students have to take this stupid test that proves whether or not they memorized certain facts. If your students don't learn those particular facts, your school doesn't get public funding. The domino affect of that was that teachers stopped teaching and they started feeding facts, otherwise they have no job next year.
Your students have to pass, they cannot fail. Your paycheck depends on it. So they don't fail kids anymore. The domino affect of that is that the high school diploma has become useless. Meaningless. Now in order to get a job that pays you enough money to live, you have to have a college degree. If you can't afford one, you'll take out a loan, or you'll live off the government, or both. The rich stay rich because their schools actually teach. The poor stay poor because theirs do not.
We have raised an entire generation of stupid people who know a bunch of useless facts but who don't know how to problem solve. That stupid generation is able to vote. They're not going to do research, they're not going to find out the truth because they have been taught their whole lives that THIS is the answer. Memorize it. Know it. Believe it. The end. So all this political advertising has become twice as valuable because all you have to do is make it sound halfway legit to win the election.
Slowly but surely the generations that came before are dying. That's just life. Soon we will have a country of stupid sheep who believe whatever you tell them to believe, because its the only way they have learned. The privileged won't fix it because they're in power. The poor will be helpless and they may not even know it. They will blindly accept that they are powerless and at some point, they may even stop voting. Laws will be changed to keep the powerful in power... all while sending the message that we are trying to help you, America! And the stupid will keep buying it because ... they saw it on TV, so it must be true.
This is what our founding fathers did not want. They tried to avoid this by stating very clearly that every man, woman and child is ENTITLED TO a quality education. But we have chipped away at the source of learning and its only a matter of time before there are two classes... the powerful and the powerless.
"Politician" was not meant to be a career. Our founding fathers had other professions, they did their time as PUBLIC SERVANTS and then returned to their lives. We have elected officials who make their living off tax dollars and have the AUDACITY to vote themselves pay raises!
Politicians have handcuffed educators.
Lending corporations have handcuffed students.
Sweeping changes have come from both sides of the aisle, so pointing the proverbial finger is unnecessary.
I urge everyone who is of a voting age to STOP RE-ELECTING ANYONE!
Demand change, and if it doesn't get fixed, elect someone else. Keep electing new faces until OUR country changes for the better! The Citizens of the United States of America hold 100% of the power, but you lose that power when you "pick the lesser of two evils".
Think. Vote. Change. Maybe someday we can be proud Americans again.
I agree completely.
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