Neil deGrasse Tyson on the popularity of dictatorships

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7. Yes. The loss of the WWII Generation--the so-called "Greatest" is going to be the death of democracy

if we don't WAKE UP! Young people are largely not learning history-- or if they actually go to a school with a good curriculum, the RW is determined to dismantle it with their propagandist alternatives.

Previous generations might have been more immune to this by virtue of the fact they had older generations around them who countered the nonsense or taught them from their experiences. But equally important, previous generations, including my own READ and read voraciously. it is hard to counter fascism when the very basis for why we CHOSE democracy (or at least a Democratic Republic form of government) is lost on them. Or when they've never read the scores and scores of biographies that I did about people who barely survived the alternatives. Social media may well be the death of critical knowledge for many.


Now that our public school systems are under systematic attack, will we wake up (in time?)