[video=youtube;fwlW4lx6TTo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwlW4lx6TTo&feature=share[/video]
I'd say despite being heavily under-handed, it's not anything that I haven't heard my peers saying. The cognitive dissonance caused by being born into a country where everyone says that 'we're the best' when it's apparent how much our schools are crippled by budget deficits and where the majority of students in the country come from financially strained homes is hard to handle. We're told terrible things about the world and that are happening in our 'great' country and yet we have a party that openly cheers for measures that would worsen the lives of many people. We're told to respect their beliefs, and not discuss the problems with their logic. It's better to keep quiet than to challenge someone who advocates ethically abhorrent policy. We are born into a country where we are expected to understand that politics and religion are generally off-limits to talk about, because people have become so pious to either faith or policy that they can't discuss them without the situation getting out of hand. We're born into a country of lunatics, and are told that we can't attempt to change their pathologically harmful behavior.
For every presidential term where education suffers, a generation of students fall through the cracks. They have their chances wasted by harmful policy, and they will never get a leg-up in the world comparable to what they could have gotten from an effectively administered and funded education. They aren't just lost, they grow up, and vote. They gain misinformed political views from biased sources that they haven't been taught to notice. They get let out into the world with an education that's left them unsuitable for easy entrance into college and the ability to study for tests pretty well.
Not a single class before I took Argumentation actually covered the general concepts of it. In my third year of college I found a class of core critical thinking skills that a vast majority of the population will never encounter. We don't teach critical thinking in high school, only to the ones that take it in college. How did this oversight happen? How is this okay? A large portion of the population staunchly opposes raising the budget for education, or anything that would help the less-advantaged in our country. They call it unneeded and often accuse the needy of greed. They literally don't regard the facts. I wonder if that's because they weren't' taught essential critical thinking skills in school? They got out of high school by testing well and doing the homework with no critical insight into the subjects they studied. Classes were a series of interesting or uninteresting things that had to be covered because they'd be on the test, rather than actually allowing or encouraging critical insight into the class material.
The reason our country is hurting so bad is in my opinion because we have suffered from several generations of students who were either disenfranchised or unchanged in the crucial learning years of their life. These our our Luddites and antisocial. They are the generations that were robbed of critical thinking, and thus have become concrete and dependent on one belief being correct.
It is collateral damage the general population that doesn't seem to acknowledge or care about. Even if the education were to get repaired after the supposed Romney/Ryan presidency, there will be another entire generation of students who have their initial steps into the world deeply undermined by our politics.
About time this was acknowledged
yo these are some pasty ass kids
I say we let China take over so when can make things for them
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This video isn't about the congress and government in general, it's about the Republicans.
Reading the description and the lyrics points it seems to be as if that's how the next four years will be under Conservative control and how the video description has "Re-electing President Obama is a momentous decision that will require every single voter.
What would the children of the future say if we let them down this November?" directly in it, which hints this is trying to convey a message that Obama won't destroy the world unlike the Conservatives would.
[QUOTE=Spork-Juct;38220931]This video isn't about the congress and government in general, it's about the Republicans.
Reading the description and the lyrics points it seems to be as if that's how the next four years will be under Conservative control and how the video description has "Re-electing President Obama is a momentous decision that will require every single voter.
What would the children of the future say if we let them down this November?" directly in it, which hints this is trying to convey a message that Obama won't destroy the world unlike the Conservatives would.[/QUOTE]
believe me when i say that it doesn't matter if obama or romney gets elected, it matters as much as eating shit or deep fried cum.
nothing is going to change extremely drastically for better or for worst under the rule of either, if anything they are a figurehead.
as always in america, it's a contest of who says what to people in the way they like it the most; not that it reflects what they are going to do.
I'm american, and I believe in change, but not the "lol republican vs democrat!?1/1/" or "conservative or slightly less conservative !1/1/?"
It's not black and white people, shit isn't going to change much anytime soon with the system we have. it's a bunch of distracting hype for jackshit nothing.
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