‘Freedom? We don’t need no stinkin’ freedom’. Anonymous leftwinger
George Rebane
The Pew Research Center released the latest edition of a poll on free speech that they have been conducting for years. It contains the latest tranche of evidence that corroborates one of the longtime tenets of Rebane Doctrine – a major fraction of Americans are no longer smart enough to maintain our democratic republic. Not only that, but the level of dumbth in the population is increasing at an alarming rate. (more here, H/T to reader)
Over the last five years Pew has posed this poll three times. “In 2018, Democrats supported free speech by a 57-40 margin, almost identical to the Republican view. They now oppose it by 70-28, a massive shift over the last five years, while Republican views have not changed.”
As RR has held for years, most Dems are true believers in big government that they entrust with managing their (and our) lives with an unending and ever-growing tsunami of regulations, and with the handling of an ever-greater fraction of your finances. And in recent years they have been convinced by their lamestream media and neo-Marxist politicians that the whole effort to convince new ideological recruits and maintain existing membership is by convincing everyone that allowing people to hear “misinformation” in the public square is inimical to American democracy. Moreover, those (Republicans) who continue to maintain and support the First Amendment are evil along every social dimension – white supremacists, racists, homophobes, inequitable, non-inclusive, rejecting diversity, … .
Today our progressives and woke contingents are actively working to break down our country from the inside. As recently as 20 years ago these lame brains were overwhelmingly to be found in our ‘deep state’ bureaucracies and academe. Now the infection has spread to and runs rampant in K-12 public education, corporatist business enterprises, and the military.
The bottom line is that most Americans today would be sanguine living in a society where all permitted public speech must first be vetted by a newly established Ministry of Truth and its local offices spread across the land.
America’s Numeracy
George Rebane
America’s numeracy has been covered in these pages since RR launched. As technology accelerates in these pre-Singularity years, our innumeracy has become more of a critical factor in how we govern ourselves and our general quality of life that depends on our ability to create wealth. For example, it’s almost impossible for the innumerate among us to understand the axiomatic human behaviors that make the failures of collectivism hard to understand (e.g. the widespread acceptance of neo-Marxism). A recent article that expands on all this is ‘I wish Americans would Stop Saying they are not Good at Math’. The table below is from that article.
According to the OECD-PISA website [1]: Mathematical performance, for PISA, measures the mathematical literacy of a 15 year-old to formulate, employ and interpret mathematics in a variety of contexts to describe, predict and explain phenomena, recognising the role that mathematics plays in the world. The mean score is the measure. A mathematically literate student recognises the role that mathematics plays in the world in order to make well-founded judgments and decisions needed by constructive, engaged and reflective citizens. [1]
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