DOOMSAYER!!
 
 Professor Henry A. Giroux Knocks It Out of the Park in Salon.com     *  SATURDAY, JUN 24, 2017 07:00 AM MDT    Manufactured illiteracy and miseducation: A long process of decline led to President Donald Trump    A deep-rooted crisis in education, and a long cultural and political decline, is what got us here. There's hope!   HENRY A. GIROUX   I am wholeheartedly recommending you read this article.   It's a straight-up super piece of reality, a facing of facts, and a powerful call to action.  Just what Doomsayers are supposed to do, get us off our duffs.   Go read it at  Salon !   A FEW HIGHLIGHTS.  (Kind of like the briefing before the battle.) Cliffs notes of Prof Giroux's diagnostics on where the U.S. of A. is slipping off the tracks:      -a plague of deep-seated civic illiteracy, a corrupt political system and a contempt for reason     -the withering of civic attachments, the undoing of civic culture, the decline of public life and the erosion of any sense of shared ...