(#6109) Keeping America dumb is the republican strategy, don't let them dumb you down!

      Do your research! If you don't trust any news source then investigate the problem through objective eyes. Don't accept what is told to you, look into it yourself. What else are you doing that is more important than knowing the truth of what affects your life? As to what is important, let me remind you that living life is how we get along and survive. It isn't the most important thing about existence. What is the most important is understanding that we know very little about how or why we exist. So accumulating facts and truths as best we can is our way of learning and understanding how to think about how we live.
     We are not like the animals in nature that are mostly not conscious of time and space. We don't exist just to exist. We have another purpose in life. To build upon the knowledge we already have. To even move beyond our planet into the Universe where new laws of physics and their effects need discovering. We are by nature a curious species. Which is why we are not like the other animals who don't invent things and apply them to our societies. They don't record their learnings in ways that can be accessed by most anyone with a will to do so. Our species has a unique qualification when it comes to learning, we mostly want our young ones to know more than we do so they have a better chance of keeping our species evolving into more competent and skilled specimens of humanity.
     Our children are our hope for the future and keeping them informed beyond our own understandings is a natural nurturing desire. For those who do not hold dear the idea of a smarter more intellectual society, it is because they have an agenda that is more about themselves and less about the future of our children. The nefarious nature of republican politics is them being in control of what we think and how we should act. That is not free will it is akin to being property. I could scream from  the mountaintops that the republicans are not letting us remain as free human beings and many wouldn't understand or care since they seem to prefer being told what to do, much like herded cattle. I won't accept that and will fight for the right of all of us to pursue our own happiness while doing no harm.