Letter: Education necessary to save democracy

I just read the David Brooks New York Times commentary (thanks to The Salt Lake Tribune) called “The rotting of the Republican mind.” His ideas on the paranoia of conspiracy theorists were enlightening.Brooks thinks that the lack of a higher education and economic fears which describe a large percentage of Trump voters contributed to a paranoia that has turned almost half our population to the “dark side” of the media.As a retired teacher, I believe that education is obvi