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Ralph DeVane's avatar

Our educational system at the national level has been controlled by leftists almost at the beginning of the country. The control started at the highest level, where even Ben Franklin found it necessary to drop out of Harvard at age 12. The leftists' influence was expanded to the primary grade level, where the basic skills needed to succeed in a free society are ignored in favor of social focused subjects that leave the students shockingly inept in dealing with real life.

There have been notable intellects who recognized this shortcoming as far back as Mark Twain, who cautioned "Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education." He further warned about the often skewed views of the newspapers (the tv news of that time) in presenting facts correctly, or leaving those facts they deemed unfavorable to those they favored, by cynically saying "If you're not reading the news, you're not informed. If you are, you're uninformed". formal primary education should be controlled at the local and state level, with a reward system for student results.

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Mary W Maxwell's avatar

Dear Elsa, As far as I am aware, there is no item on US ballots that indicates a voter's age. Rather, if 5 million votes came in for the Blues (the democrats) and 10 million for the Reds -- in an imaginary state whose population is 15 million adults -- the media would call that a Red state. That way of naming a state is already yucky enough. But a map showing what the over-45s did at the polls is just not honest. Of course a national survey company (with a large staff) could interview people on the street and come to a conclusion that most young folks believe in the Dem Party and most "MAGA hat" wearers are old. Generally speaking, I think that is a likely fact. But your article doesn't prove it.

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