text:  in the 1770s. This should not be something that people are unaware of. You should have awareness of certain things. Our public education is absolutely atrocious. And I would say there's a lot of reasons for that. One of them is, well, I don't want to get into it. There's so many side topics we could get into. But suffice it to say that one of them is a driving force that says a stupid electorate is a controllable electorate.