Thread by @mariliacout

1/ The USA and, as a consequence, the world, has an American White Christian Nationalism problem: they are less educated, impervious to logic or fact, believe trump and fear the "abstract other"
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…

2/ While the actual major terrorism threat is "the enemy within" (domestic terrorists are predominantly white nationalists), they fear a declining Muslim extremism.
csis.org/analysis/rise-…

3/ Even the Arab world is becoming less religious in a fast rate

theguardian.com/global-develop…

4/ Unfortunately, even though non religious segments of all populations are growing, the uneducated religious people have a high fertility rate

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…

5/ The problem, then, is the religious, uneducated, unintelligent and fertile mass. The decline in intelligence is related to stunted cognitive development during early childhood, associated with religiosity and authoritarianism.

sciencealert.com/iq-scores-fall…

6/ We have immediate and urgent problems to slow down or confront the global rise of the right-wing in major elections. On the long run, though, the chances of consolidating and spreading democracy are not great. Climate change looks even worse.

7/ All in all, the window of opportunity is getting smaller and mistakes can be fatal.

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