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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@Convivial I disagree. Reading is not boring. Reading allows us to experience and learn things that we may never have the opportunity to do in our lives.
@FoxyQueen sorry...I didn't make myself clear... That is not my viewpoint but one I think held subconsciously by many young people.. Why read when you can have it in colour pictures on your screen?
I think that we have definitely become an instant gratification, low attention span society in America, which lends to reading being boring. Most people in school only experience reading as boring textbooks and mandatory books in english, which teachers are rather unable to express why these books may be pivotal to the experience of reading them. That is a turn off for reading, to be sure, especially when you can watch a 2 hour movie that supposedly gives all the highlights of a book that could take up to a week to read.
We really short change ourselves horribly when we refuse to read.
