Education Is the Vaccine
Indeed. As Robespierre put it, “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
But how to get there from here? In the United States, we have essentially a two-party system, one of which has spent the last four years aggressively destroying public schools. One might suspect that’s because it knows that educated people are not going to accept various pieces of fiction that are part of its platform, like the stolen election and climate denial.
Sadly, this lands us in a position where “future Donald Trumps” are a real possibility.
Worse, Trump himself hasn’t yet “left the building.” He’s reviled by most Americans (and virtually everyone outside the U.S.), but his core base is desperate to see him return to power. As suggested above, the average educational level of people is appallingly low, but that’s where we are.
