Brack: Use critical thinking skills to cut nimrodic blather

For the last two decades, there’s been a steady drumbeat of conservative messaging about how bad government is. But there’s not been much of a concerted effort to counteract the negativity.

Part of it’s human nature because it’s way easier to believe something bad about a person, program or effort than it is to use critical thinking skills to dispel what doesn’t make sense. And with everybody and his brother thinking they know how to really research something when most of them just pass along the latest social media trash, faith in government institutions has waned.

It hasn’t helped that the people now in charge from the president through the GOP in Congress and many state legislatures seem to simply hate government – or disrespect enough of what our founding fathers did to be the world