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How trashy TV made children dumber and enabled a wave of populist leaders
- mc32 7y agoI’m surprised this is coming from the WaPo. One of the main pillars of liberalism is freedom and propensity to advocate for the common person; we too are legitimate and it was counter to the more conservative impulses to set minimums and propagate a high morality. What a turn of events the last few years have been.
- hodgesrm 7y agoI tend to skip WaPo articles like these though this one actually cited quite a bit of data. That said there are so many variables at work in political choices that any claim of a single root cause needs a lot of scrutiny. For instance, what other characteristics link these populations? How were they excluded?
- Fjolsvith 7y agoIt doesn't surprise me. One of the failures of liberalism is to assume that conservatives are not common people. I would agree that the last few years has been quite the turn of events.
- draw_down 7y agoGood grief.