••• Moore: 40 million illiterate. This is the UNDERLYING reason this country is so easy to brainwash

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Michael Moore says there are 40 million adult Americans who are functional illiterates, which means they can't read and write above 4th grade level.

I think this is the ultimate reason we have all these fundie wackos turning our political system upside down. There are too many people in this country who are so easy to brainwash.

And they are going to resist attempts to educate them.

"I may not have much ejucation, but I's got me enough ejucation ta know yer wrong!"

I think we should co-opt and buy out the fundies.

If we had a school choice compromise program that paid lip service to school choice, funneled a bit of money into it (Supreme Court, till we replace those coup plotters, says it's constitutional) and a lot of money into public education, two things would happen.

One, people would get more educated.

More people would put their kids in religious schools but they would be the more moderate ones, swamping the wackos.

Once we take back power from these wackos we get rid of the current Supreme Court and get back to the way things used to be.

Religion is too tenacious for a direct assault. If the communists in Russia had said, you can have your religion, we just want to redistribute income, today the whole world would be communist. (No, that's not an endorsement of communism.)

Religion is too tenacious to be hit with a direct assault and needs to be enlisted in the left. Many of the greatest progressives in history, such as the abolitionists, were religious men. I think we need to co-opt and also enlist the religious in the progressive movement. One of the reasons Martin Luther King was such a threat to the power structure was that he spoke in the language of faith.