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The single party states always get some amount of of stupid indoctrination. You saw the same crap in the red states when the evangelical Christians had a lot o

The single party states always get some amount of of stupid indoctrination. You saw the same crap in the red states when the evangelical Christians had a lot of influence and tried to write evolution out of the curriculum. Now it's the blue states turn to give their kids a bad education. Look at the feedback loops and who's accountable to who and who wants what in the US public education systems and it's clear why these things happen in the single party states. Basically people are trying to please people who they aren't specifically tasked with pleasing but have to as a practical matter. Local officials and administrators implement crap in order to please the loud vocal minority of the local overwhelming majority and the state officials aren't gonna stick their neck out to stop them. Ultimately nobody is accountable for teaching kids anything that can't easily be measured on a test and there's lots of incentives not to teach them to think critically.

esarbe 6y ago
Hrm. The USA has many faults but being a single-party state is not one of them. What you describe however is true of any social structure. Vocal, highly engaged minorities dominate the discussion and thus steer normative process. The progression of the process is taken up by the silent majority and societies' overtone window is shifted. It takes another vocal, highly engaged minority to change the influence how the discourse shifts. As soon as the shift in overtone window is noticed by enough members of society, this minority finds together and the shift is halted.
- denton-scratch 6y ago
  I think you misunderstood; by "single-party state", the commenter is referring to those US states that consistently return candidates from the same party. Of course the union is not single-party; but some of the component states are, in practice.
  - esarbe 6y ago
    Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification!

esarbe 6y ago

Hrm. The USA has many faults but being a single-party state is not one of them. What you describe however is true of any social structure. Vocal, highly engaged minorities dominate the discussion and thus steer normative process. The progression of the process is taken up by the silent majority and societies' overtone window is shifted. It takes another vocal, highly engaged minority to change the influence how the discourse shifts. As soon as the shift in overtone window is noticed by enough members of society, this minority finds together and the shift is halted.

denton-scratch 6y ago
I think you misunderstood; by "single-party state", the commenter is referring to those US states that consistently return candidates from the same party. Of course the union is not single-party; but some of the component states are, in practice.
- esarbe 6y ago
  Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification!