Reply #30: You are posing some good questions, questions that deserve

[ladjf]

answers. One of the limitations of writing on DU is that we generally try to be as brief as possible with our posts. But, and this is especially hard for me to do, we are so brief that we either leave out so many salient points that the readers are quite able to get your point.

As to what is wrong with the American people: there is a hugh array of interrelating causes, so many that it would be hopeless to cover a majority of them. One additional contributing factor did come to mind as I read your post: the right wing has been feverishly dedicated to ruining the public school system for whatever their crazy reasons and they done a pretty good job of doing that. With the public schools largely in disarray, there is going to be a real drop off in decision making skills. Ignorant people are not to interested in the researching topics such as politics. They are more inclined to just use their general impressions of the candidates as they relate to certain hot button issues, i.e. abortion, gay rights, family values.