[STARLIT]

Great post. I agree..even though many voters weren't Red-Pilled I still think they knew things weren't the way they seem for quite some time.

Fortunately enough old people were still alive to remember we were given freedom to think in school. The X Generation on down have been forced to believe or NOT pass in school.

[Axenolith]

Not all of em :-). I’m one...

[reformedliberal]

...we were given freedom to think in school....
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Not *given*. Freedom to think was EXPECTED and we took it for granted.

In 1961, in a university honors history seminar, no holds were barred. We came at things from all sides. The professor was openly Marxist, but he never stepped on anyone’s toes and defused potential contretemps with humor and questions.

Looking back at those discussions and the papers we had to write, most were classical liberals, meaning conservative in today’s lexicon, but everyone of us (about a dozen) entertained and questioned ideas from all sides without calling/being called names or penalized.

It was exhilarating and everything I thought university would be.