A crime against the soul of a nation

caroline myss in the huffpo...

A conscious effort to "dumb down" the education of this nation qualifies as a crime against the soul of America. And dare I say this? If there was something as grievous as a mortal sin committed by a group against its own people, then the Republicans -- with Reagan at the helm -- and all the Democrats who stood by, or worse, backed this catastrophe -- committed that sin when they choreographed how they would dismantle the intellectual power and potential of our own children. (You should check your age -- you could be a product of this crime.)

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There comes a time when we have to just stand up to these carnies (slang for carnival barkers) and tell them to stop polluting the soul of America with their constant and endless transmission of psychic free radicals in the form of lies, negative press, ridiculous criticism, overall lack of intelligent ideas and comments, and complete absence of creative thought. We should just blast them with emails and tell them to stop polluting the soul of our nation. Just stop it. We've had enough. I know I have. And I deeply believe the soul of our nation can't take much more of their strategy of deliberate division against the people of their own nation. That is a true crime -- and perhaps their greatest crime -- against the soul of this great nation.

as i sit in the food court of the airport on the first leg of the long trip back to afghanistan, a trip that will be punctuated by the next three nights in d.c., i'm surrounded by my dumbed-down fellow citizens, all sitting under the watchful eye of fox news, spewing worthless inanity in a constant reinforcement of our deteriorating collective mental capacity... what's supremely ironic is that, as i type this, fox is airing more of the completely bogus and manufactured controversy surrounding obama's address to the nation's schoolchildren...

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