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Tiktok mental health advice is out of control
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Yeah, if you follow the Flesch-Kincaid reading level of Presidential speeches over time, that's another way you can broadly track American English just literally being dumbed down over time.
Trump basically only speaks in stream of consciousness, run-on sentences that are so vague that my 6th grade English teacher would describe as 'word vomit.'
Speaking of 6th grade... the average adult American reading proficiency is now between a 5th and 6th grader.
Less than 10% of the population is capable of critically comparing contrasting stories about the same thing from different sources, and pointing out their differences and comparative biases.
Something like 30% of the population is functionally illiterate, only able to read extremely simple instructions and basically children's books.
EDIT: Also, its not a coincidence.
Republicans, for longer than I've been alive, have been wrecking public education.
Why? Stupid people are easier to lie to.