Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Has America Had a More Depraved Prez Than Trump?" video.

I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law so I had many discussion about the US constitution. What's amazed when I compare today with the 80s is the insane ignorance about the US Constitution. Americans used to be incredibly proud of the understanding of there own nation. Compared to any other nation (including Australia) Americans WERE the most well educated people with respect to HOW their country ACTUALLY DOES WORK. BUT ITS NO LONGER TRUE and that amazes me because Americans used to be PROUD they understood their own nation. My frat brothers were ADAMANT that America could NEVER become a totalitarian state BECAUSE THEY WERE EDUCATED.
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@terryparenteau1200 I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and I thought at the time America was showing signs of slipping. Things like basic literacy and math skills. Don't forget America has a long history of simplifying spelling. Its one of those funny subjects between America and the rest of the English speaking world. Sorry fo he longer answer but you raise an important issue. I'm fairly well informed on what's happened in Australia with education as both my parents were High School teachers and 1 cousin was a high school principal. And our system is following America's. What's masking lower education standards are the advances in technology. If you've heard about how apps like MS Word have contributed to a decline in spelling skills because it auto corrects. We have a very similar issue in engineering with packages like AutoCad. Its brilliant in how it helps engineers design BUT it also makes them very lazy with some vital skills. The equivalent to spelling in engineering is tolerancing. That's where you decide how accurate each dimension on a part needs to be. In the past engineers had to think about how accurate each dimension needed to be and now they don't. I think there's been a long slow decline in Western Education that's been so gradual we don't realise it unless we something very specific. I've noticed in engineering but I'm certain its across the board. I think its being driven by at least 2 main things. First there's the fundamentalist religions for sure. That's the point you made and its all about power and obedience. Its been well practiced for 1000s of years by many religions that literacy is for priests and obedience is for the illiterate. Second is politics where its much easier to motivate mobs if they are less educated (eg. Trumpism). After those 2 I know of 2 others. There's pressure from business who again want obedience. There's a lesser and very significant pressure from the FAR LEFT (and I mean the far far far radical nutcase left) who want to take the "we are all equal" mantra to its extreme which means none of us are allowed to be smarter than the least intelligent person in the group. I see that in a lot of industrial training where there are NO GRADES just pass/fail. Its fine for many things but certainly not all. The strange thing is all these pressure drivers need people educated. They just don't like them too educated. Its like that great line from President Snow in the Hunger Games about how a little bit of hope is good and too much is very dangerous.
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@Armament Armed Arm Well what do you think they actually did study in civics. How old are you? What do yo u base any of that claim on? What does law is theater have to do with civics classes? If you want to contribute to a discussion contribute. But if you want to make stupid claims then just go over to the channels where that sort of garbage is popular.
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