great reply! I think his actual phrase was… “I love the poorly educated.”, so I didnt nail my punchline.

agreed with pretty much everything you said, with the caveats that…

• critical thinking is both an innate and learned skill - one we have failed to teach.
• once you have the above covered, it harder to split us up into warning factions.
• because of the above two failures… I have no idea if any of it is salvageable.