[Magdalen] Trump, education and children

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

He has a graduate degree in business. A dummy he ain't.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> My question: Is he in fact "uneducated" himself and literally unaware of
> either facts or ethical issues or even political sensitivities;  or is he
> making a cynical and deliberate appeal to the millions of citizens who do,
> genuinely, appear to be uneducated and ignorant and frandly malevolent?
>
> Education was a key "old liberal" value, then the money people came in and
> over my lifetime I've seen it become more and more vocationally driven. At
> the same time the social status of teachers has been massively degraded
> (along with their real salaries and benefits), and educational systems have
> been required to do more with less. Higher education has not become more
> accessible, in fact it seems that it's been rolled back in every way
> intellectually and financially.
>
> The USA may be a particularly egregious example, but it seems to me that
> every industrial country now has an enormous, angry, ill
> educated rent-a-mob; uncomfortably reminiscent of the former
> Austro-Hungarian empire in the years between the world wars, or France
> before the Revolution. Except that this bigoted, hateful and ignorant Vox
> Populi is more easily expressed and extended via social media.
>
> I've read that children in America are being deeply affected by Trump's
> shenanigans (and maybe the other republican candidates as well to the
> extent that they espouse bigoted or cruel opinions);  and it's interesting
> to me to watch my own childrens' reactions to him - as they like kids all
> over the world spend a lot of time online and the online world is dominated
> by the USA, so to them Trump is a very real and horrifying figure.
>
> Our youth minister was recently on a tour with a group of Evangelical, but
> indisputably well educated Americans; some of whom, to her amazement, were
> supporting Trump. So it'ss not as though all of his supporters are
> uneducated, either theologically or in any other way.
>
> As for me, I don't know if I do believe in education as a foundation for
> social progress any more. Maybe too many people are just not capable of
> benefiting from it...and those countries that have continued to invest in
> education and have achieved a higher standard, had much less economic
> inequality to start with.
>
> Maybe we need to see a child-led campaign against Trump - let the children
> speak and give us all the benefit of their honest, clear vision. Though I
> am heartened by recent reports that his ratings overall have slipped far
> behind both the Democratic candidates.
>
> Sally D
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 02 April 2016, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > A political analyst a few minutes ago on Chris Hayes' show on MSNBC said
> > something to the effect of, "I've followed presidential politics for five
> > decades, and all during that time there has never, EVER, been a candidate
> > -- and that includes Pat Paulsen's candidacy -- so positively uneducated
> in
> > regard to domestic and foreign policy as Donald Trump."
> >
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