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America needs to improve our education system. From a young age through high school, critical thinking and logic need to taught, along with civics and history. And when I say history, I don’t mean glossing over facts that paint our country in a less-than-perfect light. We need to see our mistakes & learn from them. No person or country is perfect. Government needs to fund public education: pay teachers a good salary so teaching attracts the best, fund school supplies & not expect teachers to buy copy paper, etc., make sure that textbooks are factual & not spouting propaganda, & not give our tax dollars to private schools. All public schools, no matter their physical location, should offer the same opportunities. And I could go on & on....

As for Trump & his moronic statements, I automatically think any utterance he makes is a lie. Anyone who supports his pronouncements is sorely lacking in critical thinking. I just hope that November brings change in all branches of our government. It can’t happen soon enough.

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Schools also need to stop cutting school libraries and staff them with certified professional school librarians. They’re the ones that teach kids how to use databases and tell the difference between fake and legitimate news, websites, and primary sources. Library aides and volunteers don’t have the training to do that,

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My forehead hurts from the amount of times I’ve face palmed in the last three months. Who are these gullible people that questions nothing?!

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Amen.

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Feels like being lead by a cult leader. I just expected more by our citizens.

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Nope. Sorry. I’m 74 and have watched the massive hollowing out of our public educational system for two generations now. It’s sickening and very sad as well as it is dangerous. When both parents had to begin working, that’s when teachers began taking on even more responsibility at school. It’s gone down hill ever since.

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Whatever optimism I had left is long gone.

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According to Huffpost, Trump holds a not insignificant share of Sanofi, the company that makes hydroxychloroquine. So he probably isn’t really taking it (his doctor says they discussed it but he didn’t prescribe it, and not even the president can get prescription drugs without a prescription). He just wants people to THINK he’s taking it, so the dimwits who still believe him will ask their equally dim-witted doctors to prescribe it for them. It’s free advertising.

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The danger that this despicable cretin and his millions of mindless supporters pose to this country cannot be overstated. People have died because of his lies and stupidity........and Republicans don’t care (because he has stocked the federal bench with far right judges who will finally overturn Roe v. Wade and who will wipe out the few federal regulations we have left).

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Dem reps/sens need to find a way to connect with all society without sounding like socialists and undercut the us and them struggle that is the very dangerous situation we are in.

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Can you be more specific please?

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Dems have alienated so many folks but mostly from average working people and need to find a better way to reconnect based on their values also. I say this as a Dem.

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Should have written “poses”. Sorry for the grammatical faux pas!

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No way he's taking that drug. No way.

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My thought exactly.

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Stupidity is killing America.

Hydroxy chloroquine will be needed cleaner in the gene pool of those who believe Trump.

Down with the regurgitate SOL system in VA and similar tests that keep kids from thinking on their own. But most of the true Ding Dongs are late Boomers and Gen xer's. Too much pot??

Where the hell is the rest of the MSM on this. Oh let me guess. NOTHING. Reprobates owned by the 1%

Thank God for Judd.

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This is just so depressing...I cannot believe how many brain-dead sheep live among us. If anyone could believe a word from these psychos, how do we move forward as a society. How are actual doctors with medical licenses a part of this group? How are these pyschos able to practice medicine? I have no hope for America with this many idiots here.

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I'm not sure that America has any more or less stupidity than it always has. The country is full of noise, and bullies yowl while polite people clear their throats.

This center cannot hold, and the Always Trumpers will spin off into the black hole from whence they crawled and the new center of good and right will prevail, as it has in the past.

We, just by definition, are not alone. Believe it.

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America needs to stop being tolerant of quacks.

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