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USA gets closer to Idiocracy every day (lemm.ee)

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[–] Hasherm0n 53 points 2 days ago

Isaac Asimov in 1980:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.