In an earlier post, Destroying America, I speculated that it is the decline in U.S. educational standards that is responsible for our electing “a conman with the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise.”
At left is a slightly different take on the subject, in which Mark Twain discusses the role of international travel in the development of people with “broad and charitable views of the world.”
There are two main problems with applying this principle onto present-day America, however:
• The growing chasm between rich and poor means that fewer people can afford to travel overseas than there were before the onset of “trickle-down economics” 45 years ago, and
• People steeped in bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness have very little interest in changing their character.
