If 21 % can’t read (are Illiterate) then it makes sense that 79 % can read (are literate). So yes, nationwide and in the US are the same thing.

Seems like I can’t read myself, I thought both said illiterate. My mistake.

Trump got 4 years of presidency in the US, which is definitely the more extreme punishment. It’s something I would never wish upon my worst enemy

The source seems extremely dubious with seemingly no way to see how they conducted the study and where they pulled the numbers from , and some of the points are not very well worded especially in their 2024 study, there the first 2 lines are:

“On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.”

Granted, English isn’t my first language but those statements just seem contradictory. “U.S. adults nationwide” and “adults in the US” seems like the exact same thing, unless someone can correct me. Turns out I’m the one who can’t read, thought both examples used “illiterate” rather than “literate and illiterate”

Comment sections are also filled by bots so that doesn’t give that much confidence either.

Lemmy is my main but I still use Reddit sometimes for more niche subreddits.

Climate change isn’t real, it’s the democrat water machines they have in the ocean to punish red states, dummy.

Fun fact: 90% of Democrats quit moving towards the right before getting moderate republican support.

But on a serious note, I remember seeing a bunch of comments on Lemmy about how Trump was guaranteed to lose against Kamala and then far-right would splinter and die out and everything would be fine again, yet this is something that might actually happen to the Democrats, given how they’re seemingly pointing fingers at everyone trying to find who to blame and who’s responsible. I really hope they don’t delude themselves into learning the wrong lessons, but it seems likely to happen.

Even though it’s too early to say, I wonder what the future would have held for US Democrats if Kamala were to win the election. Would they have learned that going right is the correct call?

What about a future where someone worse than Trump came up, someone who’s a religious fundamentalist with even higher support numbers due to constant billionaire-funded propaganda and radicalization in general, what would Democrats do then?

But maybe I’m too much of a pessimist.