If enough people believe it, then you failed in your democratic duty to create an educational system that produces citizens able to separate fact from non fact. Relevance from irrelevance. And so on.

In a democracy, the educational system is a democratic practice. A civic duty. We could have changed our educational system to be better, we didn’t. That’s on us. We could change it now. We won’t. That’s a choice. A democratic choice.

The practice of democracy is not solely about voting. There are many democratic choices we make every day that concert to give us the government we deserve.

I’m sorry but in 2025 that type of thinking feels extremely naive. There is an education issue, but that’s such a detail compared to the level of propaganda, misinformation. People have been groomed by entire networks of misinformation for such a long time. It’s a complete take over of the democratic system, by nefarious actors, to their own benefit. Doing so fully in the open