re: #560 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I also see this as the cuts in public education that started under Reagan and continued in a downward spiral coming home to roost.

Now it is truly the case that people are openly proud of their stupidity and wear it as a badge of deplorable identity.

I believe it was Issac Asimov who noted there’s a strong strain of anti-intellectualism in American culture and it’s been there pretty since the beginning.