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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15070)	4/8/2017 6:49:23 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356053

It's not that complicated. Look at history and look at the world. Until about 100 years ago the entire world for all of history was the most amazingly barbaric place to live, everywhere. We only ended slavery 150 years ago in this country and had black chain gangs in the south until the 1930's. We only ended segregation 50 years ago and women only got the vote less than 100 years ago. When you look around the world, you see that the countries that are the most educated and least religious have the most civil rights. Try and find exceptions to it, good luck. Compare the Nordic countries and Europe to the Middle East. The Nordic countries and Europe are very secular and educated in liberal arts and in the Middle East they are very religious and have little education in liberal arts . And the entire Middle East is nothing but a big old war zone with all of the people there trying to get to Europe and the Nordic countries. You don't see people in Europe and Nordic countries trying to get to the Middle East. Look at Central and South America. Very religious and primarily ruled by military dictatorships forever with only a few fledgling democracies. And a vry unsafe part of the world, so they are fleeing north. Or look at Africa, it is all religion of one form or another and very little education and it's a nightmare over there. In Asia and India they are plagued by overpopulation so it's hard for them to do much of anything no matter how much education they have. But the small countries like Taiwan, Japan and South Korea that are highly educated, are very democratic and have amazingly good civil rights very much like the Nordic countries. Or look at history, the middle ages we were barbaric as to be unbelievable. Torture was commonplace, the rack, floggings, public hangings and drawing and quartering and the church was involved in it as much as anyone else. We don't do those things today. Waterboarding is a huge deal and in the Middle Ages it would've been considered quaint. Just take at the look at the evolution of civilization over the last 12,000 years, very hard to find humanity anywhere and until about 100 years ago. And the correlation I'm speaking of is that as we became more educated we became more humane. Nobody would even consider reinstituting segregation today. It is out of the question. Education. And for 100 years not one state in the South voluntarily desegregated. They had to be forced to by the federal government and the south is both poor and uneducated and they elect the worst politicians. Education does not have to be formal, it can be undertaken by the individual, or society as a whole.