Trump could not have been elected without the GOP’s war on literacy and knowledge, in which stupid becomes the highest qualification for elected office.
Senator Merkley gave a great speech a couple of days ago outlining point by point how Trump is installing authoritarianism in America. “Tamias” at Daily Kos has posted the contents.
He dared to mention Demosthenes, and sensibly explained who he was as well. This is the kind of education that allows self-empowerment, exactly what the GOP has declared war on.
“As Demosthenes , an ancient Greek statesman, legal scholar of the third century B.C. once said, quote, ‘There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots: suspicion,’ end of quote. What Demosthenes was saying was that in a democracy, we don’t take the statements of our political leaders simply at face value.”
Those sentiments do not aid the agenda of a Trump.