Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Ex-prosecutor: What DOJ may be looking for in Trump’s Twitter account" video.

@elmosweed4985 I KNOW WHY - I have researched this for a book Im writing: This is the story of why America is full of idiots. In the late 1970's and early 80's computers became a thing and you could process lots of statistical data for the first time. And the political parties did... The data showed the GOP they would be demographic-ed out of existence in a couple of decades. It also showed the GOP that stupid badly educated people - amazingly - voted for them. Voted AGAINST their own interests, as blue-collar workers and for the GOP. So the GOP started to breed their own supporters. They systematically defunded education - in 1976 education was 5.7% of GDP. In 1983 it was 3.4% Some of the specific changes they made were to STOP teaching critical thinking skills, skills that ALLOW people to spot a lie. And it was wildly successful. America now has an uneducated subclass of 35% idiots and it is enough to swing elections. Thatcher did the same in the UK and that led in the end to Brexit. If you cant tell a lie is a lie then you vote for the people telling the biggest lie. This used to be the GOP and the Tory party, but people worked out you could tell BIGGER lies and they would still be believed so you get Trump, Boris Johnsons, MAGA and Brexit.
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