But a large majority of Americans can't read beyond elementary school level. The person you are arguing with about trump probably cannot comprehend your comments because they are unable to.
This is why so many rely on YouTube and videos for their information. If it isn't spoken, they can't understand what is being said.
This is also how YouTube videos indoctrinated so many anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, fascists and authoritarian actions like rounding up and punishing immigrants, trans and homophobia, and several other tactics previously used by the Nazis to indoctrinate people.
If you can't read at a 12th grade level, you are easily indoctrinated by propaganda because you cannot comprehend what you are reading. This makes you an asset to fascists.
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It is also becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between those with genuinely low reading comprehension and those who simply have a short attention span. My boss is apparently an intelligent man, but I still have to spend time and effort creating "executive summaries" of my reports to ensure that he actually understands them 🙄
@SunshineGirl Intelligence is a varied accural of things. A person can be intelligent in some areas and ignorant in others. Sadly, we tend to think of intelligence as this lump sum thing when it is a large number of individual components.
@FoxyQueen A lot of people I know can easily assimilate and regurgitate information but at the same time they can't seem to analyze any given situation and come to logical conclusions. I have a nephew who breezed through school with honors, yet he readily believes obvious internet misinformation like taking the covid vaccine makes magnets stick to you. Stuff like this makes me see different layers to intelligence.
@robingoodfellow Critical analysis is a skill which needs to be acquired. But I am alarmed how many people seem to pass through formal education without mastering it.
@robingoodfellow Simply being intelligent does not make anyone less prone to falling for false claims and narratives.
Critical thinking skills are necessary to evaluate information, review reliable sources, ask informed & pertinent questions to come to the best possible conclusions.
What is really scary is how tRUMP is corrupting those previously reliable sources by appointing charlatans like RFK, Jr, Dr Oz, Linda McMahon, Kegsbreath, etc. with the intent to undermine and usurp the credibility of institutions we have long been accustomed to relying on.
One of the most dangerous abuses of the Office of the Presidency ever—and he’s during this with our economy, religion, news media… this list goes on and on and on. He’s feeding his base, our country, and the whole world a steady diet of vile lies.
