Herb and Jamaal by Stephen Bentley for November 16, 2024

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

“Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.”

“A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.”

“Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”

“What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!”—W. E. B. Du Bois

It looks like ignorance won.

the latter—it’s already happening

Sadly it looks like ignorance is winning lately.

Luckily, ignorance lost this time. And they can’t understand why.

So many are already disappointed at how they voted. Muslims can’t believe that that man who doesn’t want them in “his” country, that they voted for, is all in on destroying Gaza. Young people voted for a man without understanding any of his policies or plans, and are now angry about it. Voters in Red states, where Trump won by a comfortable margin, also voted to codify abortion in their state Constitutions. People voted for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as well as Trump, they felt they both were for the working class. What else can it be besides ignorance?

Sorry to say ignorance won on November 5th

My money’s on ignorance.

“Our species needs, and deserves citizenry with minds awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.” Carl Sagan

“ Each of us put our hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. We did not put our hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.” PA state rep Brian Sims.

Just because someone said something doesn’t make it true. However, in this case…

The latter.

Ignorance is easier to propagate, and an ignorant society is easier to both control and mislead.