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As someone who is intensely interested in how regional differences in people's education affect their political outlook, I sincerely want to ask you where you w
by afarrell 11y ago
As someone who is intensely interested in how regional differences in people's education affect their political outlook, I sincerely want to ask you where you went to high school.
I realize that response sounds condescending and I'm trying to think off a way to make it sound not condescending, but I am failing. Your statement so strongly contradicts what I learned growing up that blinked in surprise and had to take a step back and reconsider a belief that I didn't realize I'd never questioned.
I went to high school near Albany, New York and we were taught that the framers of the constitution started their design from the premise that humans are flawed and corruptible and that they needed to build a system to counter that. Hence, checks and balances. I guess all of the reading I've done since then on the founding of the country has agreed with this, but I suspect if there was some that disagreed with it, I would have missed that.