Many of America's problems stem from an overabundance of individuals who have been schooled in excess of their respective capacities to absorb or benefit from an education.
Beyond the 12th grade, and in many cases beyond the 7th or 8th grade, they gain a great deal of unjustified self esteem and confidence together with some superficial surface polish. Thus, even though they have acquired little knowledge and even less wisdom, they often possess the ability to talk and perhaps even to write glibly and smoothly.
This process has transformed many of the nation's colleges and universities or a good many portions of those institutions into something akin to the finishing schools that used to train girls from well to do families for places in society.
Emerging from such schooling, many pretenders go on to careers as entertainers, and in academia, the media, and government. They dominate our legislative bodies at every level of government and even attain executive power in some cases -- such as that of the current occupant of the oval office or that of the moronic Carolina governor who would suspend elections so that the ruling elite could govern by diktat without fear of being ousted by citizens (whom her process would transform into subjects).
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