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by Demiurge 2275 days ago
I suggest by campaigning to bring logic and critical thinking into early childhood education. Then philosophy, the classics. Science education.

Once you have more people who can understand that there are scientific and moral issues with manifest destiny, and religion isn't going to solve global warming, there will be some shifts in the public discourse and public policies.

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What's the scientific issue with manifest destiny?
It's the creation of pseudo-scientific explanations for coincidental advantages Europeans had, that created extreme intellectual complacency and bias that is holding back progress.
Having the schools teach RightThink instead of WrongThink tends to be a hard sell to an ideologically diverse nation.
The whole point of logic and philosophy is that it teaches to think and analyze for yourself, Think, not SomeThink.