I really hate this post-truth timeline. The lying is so blatant, and so everywhere.

[niyad]

11. It really isn't so fast. The deliberate, intentional, official dumbing down

of our populace has been going on for over 50 years, helped along by an anti-intellectual strain that has been present since the first European invaders. . excuse me. . .colonists. There is a reason we actually had a political organization called the "know-nothing party". Nearly forty years ago, I read an article in a literary magazine that talked about how much money we spent on education, and how poor the outcomes, concluding that such could only be intentional. Almost daily since then, I have seen the truth of their conclusions, but never more so since 2015, on an escalating basis.