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[-] NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

It really is just simplistic bullshit that seems to trip them up, isn't it? As a passionate lover of philosophy, I've come to a pretty good understanding of the sheer magnitude of what it takes to be considered an "expert" in any subject. And, hoo boy, my radical commitment to what is true has only served to illustrate to myself how much I lack in understanding... pretty much anything. I'm not one of those jackholes who do that smarmy-ass "I know nothing", so I'll admit that I understand a hell of a lot more than the average person in political theory and general pragmatic governance. So it's both infuriating and baffling to me how often the average 'right-winger' decisively demonstrates how little they understand any political subject they have no business holding such a strong and certain opinion on. And really, that also applies for most people willing to talk politics in America. Like, how the fuck are people's opinions so fucking strong for how shallow their position is???

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

What you describe can be boiled down to lack of enlightenment. Like, the thing our ancestors fought really hard for in the past 500 years or so (historians please correct me), the very foundation on which things like a stable democracy are build upon.

The USA always had really weak education and overbearing religious tomfoolery, but now it blew up to a damn crusade against everything enlightenment stands for. For the foolish it's "one-upping the libs", for the uneducated or indoctrinated it's "doing gods work", the powerful see it as an opportunity to shift power to their own "rightful" rule. Meanwhile the only thing it actually is is a damn tragedy that leads to suffering and death.

Sorry if my english is somewhat clunky.

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