Presidential Selection by Default

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Originally Posted by travelling_vic

Why would ANY logical thinking person have ANYONE speak for them? These are idiots who sell you out to the first lobbyist who comes calling.

That is what you have a brain for.

To change the subject slightly, pure true evidence-based thinking, as aggressively taught in medical cirriculums and used professionally daily for diagnosis, isn't taught in high schools any longer, IMO. The student taking advanced high-school classes may get some logic education in a bit of Socrates, but science, math and physics, and the pure thinking methodology that accompanies learning those disciplines in a more than superficial way, is in very short thrift nowadays. And it is a learned skill. Nowadays people seem to go purely on emotion, and facts or truth don't seem to matter much.