[lbo-talk] mass insanity

[Jon Johanning]

This points to a serious problem for the left. We can certainly 
recognize that there are all kinds of obstacles to reversing the 
rightward drift of the U.S. population besides ignorance of elementary 
facts about the system like this, but this sort of ignorance is a huge 
problem in itself.

What can we do to solve the problem that most people don't have the 
time, energy, interest, etc., to learn about the tax system, and the 
economic system in general, that affects their lives? What can we do to 
combat the "education" that has implanted all sorts of wildly unfactual 
ideas in people's minds since childhood? (Besides getting as many 
people to subscribe to LBO as possible, of course -- that goes without 
saying!)

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You 
should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest 
and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax