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For me Jeff, it has nothing to do with left or right on this issue, but rather 2 things. Yes, I'm typically disappointed with people in general, perhaps a by-product of watching news and seeing firsthand just how "great" our nation is. Being a perfectionist with a work ethic that is downright unhealthy doesn't help either.
Being in marketing/advertising for so long and having developed one of the few fully quantifiable marketing/advertising infrastructures out there, I know that message and its impact on the intended audience has nothing to do with intelligence, sophistication, education, etc. There's so much to write on this one topic alone.
That said, do you really learn critical thinking in high school? No, but a good liberal arts degree can do quite a lot in developing this faculty. Elitist? Maybe, but for a while I couldn't talk with my family or friends from high school because there was a whole new world in front of me and they were not part of it.
I believe in being honest when discussing these things and as a liberal, education drives me, it opens up doors, new ways of thinking that left on your own, you are just not going to develop.
Well, that was more than I wanted to write.
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