The Impact of Low-Quality Public Education on the 2024 Presidential Election

My read on the election is significantly different from most analysts.  I am aware of the demographic groups in which Kamala Harris lost ground and the perceptions that so many had of the state of the economy, never mind in the latter case that Biden-Harris actually managed the economy very well after dealing with the Covid mess left by Trump, and that at present GDP growth is just under 3 percent, inflation is a bit over 2%, job growth is strong, and the United States economy is the envy of the highly developed nations of the world.

But people want to pay lower prices anyhow, in the supermarket, for houses, for gasoline (which should actually be taxed for investment in electric vehicle production and green energy sources).  And because people, especially in the lower middle class, are feeling economic and overhyped border anxiety, they are willing to vote for a sexual predator, multi-count/multi-case criminal, pathological liar, and nasty human being with visions of autocracy.

Thus my own read  >>>>>   

The low information base and questionable ethics of the American public has been exposed.  People spend more time on social media than reading nonfiction books on government, economics, international affairs, and ethics---  or even seeking out quality online articles pertinent to such subject areas.  People know little of the behaviorist principles of psychology that would allow them to understand the social and physical environmental determinants of their own whims. 

Until we create knowledge-intensive, skill-replete public education, full of opportunities to discuss and debate societal issues and ethical decision-making that sends people into the world prepared as citizens who grasp that decisions made for the good of all will actually result in a better life for the individual---    the body politic will be ever susceptible to lies and misrepresentations that induce decisions in search of evanescent personal  advantage, rather than the public good.

But I am not weighed down by the immediate circumstance of Trump's election.  

We still have a democracy.  

In a democracy the people are the government.  

This is time for personal activism in behalf of the issues important to the creation of a promising future for the generations to come. 

Trump and his policies cannot prevail if people at the local and state levels counter with policies consonant with the public good.