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We have a problem with those unwitting Americans who lack critical thinking skills. The weird right wants to cultivate the poorly educated though.
We have people with accumulated priors who were trained to reflexively respond to certain stimuli after decades of social programming.
You can't "critical thinking" your way past a phobia or a fixation. That's not how the human mind works. And Americans have had these neuroses embedded in their psyches for generations, thanks to a systematic effort by corporate interests to divide and conquer the domestic labor force.
The weird right is cracking up. It no longer has a firm liberal basis for reactionary beliefs or a large evangelical base with a uniform understanding of religious obligations and taboos. What education they're doing is fractured, confused, and contradictory. And a big part of that fracturing is coming from their dissolution of public education, public media, and post-educational institutions.
40 years ago, people talked about the Food Pyramid and the D.A.R.E. program like they were gospels. You didn't need to hang the 10 Commandments in everyone's classrooms, because we already knew them all by heart. Now you can't convince half the country to get a flu shot, because the paranoia and conspiracy has gotten so out of hand. Everyone's a weird fringe branch of a Protestant off-shot of a rapidly deteriorating central church. No "common core" seems to exist anymore. Education is just taking a thousand confusingly written word problem exams while we find new ways to replace teachers with teleprompters.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The center cannot hold. Slouching towards Bethlehem, etc. Either Americans find a way back to their Reagan-Era Traditional nationalist identity, they find a new center to rally around, or this thing we call a United States is going to crack like an egg.