>“It takes hard work, years of religious indoctrination, the failure of public education and the fulfillment of Neil Postman’s prophecy about “entertaining ourselves to death” to get a country to the point where a Glenn Beck or Donald Trump is not simply laughed (or scorned) off the national stage by an informed public that knows that village idiots belong on lonely street corners howling at the moon, not on talk shows taking the rest of us with them.”
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>Your caption, jb, is a sweeping generalization. C'mon, every country has its mental midgets, but I don't think I would use those ignorant "models" to cast the country's character. Beck and Trump haven't been "scorned." ???