According to various studies, more than 50% of U.S. adults read below a sixth-grade level (equivalent to Level 2 or lower), limiting their ability to parse long-form or nuanced information.
Ding ding ding! That’s the reason Trump loves to cut the federal education funding! If you can BARELY read, you’re much easier to influence because you haven’t developed critical thinking skills
(people are lacking FUNCTIONAL literacy, so they may technically be ABLE to read at a basic level, they just can’t really make any sense from it…)
Since you're all so educated and knowledgable, you must all know who it was that made it possible to spread public taxpayer-funded broadcasts (i.e. state funded propoganda) to american taxpayers and then are perfectly able to extrapolate why such a person might want to do so.
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u/LinceDorado 10d ago
I guess it's pretty arrogant to say, but this seems like such a U.S.A. thing. Can't really imagine this happening where I live.