alt Hacker News>why did they give up their agency to these shadowy media oligarchs
decades tearing down education is paying its dues. Once again, from the people who are making you feel like democracy isn't working.
>I'm tired of giving stupid people so much power over my life.
If power is money, boomers still have a lot of power. And they leveraged politics their whole lives to benefit them (even if destruction of the younger generation is a side effect)
If power is votes, then millenials should be the bloc in charge now... but we still had worse turnout than boomers. That really says something.
I disagree that education had any meaningful part to play. It's true that less-educated people were more inclined to vote for Trump, but it's also true that we got all the "education" about Trump between 2016 and 2020 that anyone should have needed.
You can fix ignorance with education, but you can't fix stupidity.