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  3.     We don't teach history and literature.
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  The elections of Stephen Harper, Rob Ford, and Donald Trump are, more than anything else, damning indictments of our school systems.   In a society with a functioning school system, it should not have been possible for any of them to have obtained a nomination, let alone to have been elected to public office.
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  4.     The rise of fundamentalist religion.
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  What we now call "evangelical Christianity", or pentacostalism, started in about 1920.  The incidence of fundamentalist religion correlates almost perfectly with low education, low employment, low income, poverty, unwanted pregnancies, substance abuse, domestic violence, shorter life expectancy.  Statistically, the higher the level of church attendance, the greater the prevalence of virtually all social problems.
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  Yet evangelical Christians vote more heavily for the Republicans/Conservatives - whose policies prey on poor whites - than any other group.  Like lemmings.