[quote=FlyerInHi]ZK, i think we are a country of very smart people at the top, but mostly populated by dumb people. That wasn’t a problem in decades past because the world population was uneducated. It’s a problem now because China has more middle class than we have people. Then India, then Latin America, then Africa.

We keep our people dumb at our own peril. Absent government intervention, pure economics and pure meritocracy require that smart people live better than dumber ones. Simple as that.[/quote]

When you say “smart” and “dumb,” I’m deducing that you mean “educated” and “uneducated.”

If I’m wrong about that, you can disregard the rest of this post.

So how do you propose to educate the uneducated? If your past statements are any indication, you’d like to just leave them behind. That doesn’t work, in my opinion, for a couple reasons. Number one, we end up paying tons of money to support them, and our economy is worse off. Number two, they vote.

And which uneducated do you mean? While there are lot of uneducated rubes supporting Pinocchio L’orange and the craven republican congressmen who won’t stand up to him, there are plenty of college-educated people who have been manipulated into believing what fox propaganda is selling. So just a college education doesn’t necessarily work.

How do you get a college-educated, intelligent person who swallows fox propaganda whole to come around to seeing that it’s propaganda? How do you get an uneducated but intelligent person to come around? How do you get an unintelligent person to come around?

I don’t know the answers to these questions. I’m not sure there are viable answers to these questions. I’m not sure the lack of answers to those questions won’t lead to the end of the American position of leadership in the world, and to the end of American prosperity.