Another side of Andy Borowitz

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39. Yes, BUT. WHY did so many discard their education to vote for Trump?

Same for those who believed the unbelievable deceptions of the LW populist leader -- or both in turn? WHY on earth?!

It's not really that schools didn't try to teach them principles of liberal democracies, to seek truth and ways to recognize deception (multiple choice answers with ALWAYS and NEVER in them are ALWAYS wrong). It's that for too many it didn't take.

The problem's much deeper -- in our personalities, both wired in by genetics and imprinted by our societies. Education needs to find out how to implant basic facts and commitment to truth so strongly that more people won't rush to discard them in adulthood for attractive lies.

Understanding that we'll never adequately educate those who will be fooled all the time because of cognitive, and/or moral, deficiencies. Some people, for instance, literally will never be able to differentiate adequately between lies and truth, all input seeming valid, and thus hapless victims for charismatic salesmen.

A special problem is the many who will never believe in equality, popular sovereignty, and other principles of democracy and always long for leaders to give them orders. Or those who will always be fine with election theft as long as it's their side subverting the election.

Those who can be adequate citizens are those we have to do better with.