Trump: “I Love the Poorly Educated”…
5 min readApr 4, 2019
Our Education, Our Democracy…Why Should You Care?
In 2012 David Souter, a retired justice of the Supreme Court, argued that the greatest threat to American democracy was neither a foreign invasion nor a military coup, but ignorance about how government functions.
“An ignorant people can never remain a free people,” he said, referring to Thomas Jefferson, and democracy cannot survive too much ignorance”. People become willing to hand power to a strongman who promises to solve all their problems. “That is how the Roman Republic fell…That is…
