Any politician who seriously cares about the future of this country (at least, a future which involves democracy) should be pushing for literacy programs at all age levels. Low literacy and anti-intellectualism are gasoline on the fire of fascism. Source: National Literacy Institute - ThreadSky

forrestvalkai.bsky.social • 16 days ago

Any politician who seriously cares about the future of this country (at least, a future which involves democracy) should be pushing for literacy programs at all age levels. Low literacy and anti-intellectualism are gasoline on the fire of fascism.

Source: National Literacy Institute

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dm-author.bsky.social•15 days ago

So stupidly rules

willtuttle2000.bsky.social•16 days ago

Knowing this makes getting rid of the DOE even more scary.

hypertazdad.bsky.social•16 days ago

Sad state of affairs. I’m sure eliminating the Dept of Education will help. America has become too fat and happy. And less interested in feeding their head (as Grace Slick advised me as a teen). Please read something.

reality-imho.bsky.social•15 days ago

So many dumb asses who can be manipulated.

ladystardust57.bsky.social•16 days ago

Exactly, conflating a bunch of religious dogma into our government is the most dangerous thing that can be imposed. Their arguments are mind numbing.

whardy.bsky.social•16 days ago

It’s what the oligarchs want. A educated voter is their worst enemy.

flying-prist-06.bsky.social•2 days ago

But Forrest, if they learn to read then they might learn something dangerous like Science! Then they might realize that Republican policies are garbage and not based on reality one bit. /s

alemap-sc.bsky.social•16 days ago

Sad.

massyankee.bsky.social•16 days ago

These stats are very alarming.

goldenozaru.bsky.social•16 days ago

21% !!!!!!!!

cpcnw.bsky.social•16 days ago

socrates444.bsky.social•16 days ago

I’mmmm litter ate. I voted for honest don who never told a lie or was a trator or nuttin.

ccsky38.bsky.social•16 days ago

And 90 % of Trump Supports are at a level below grade 5.

martinrayner.bsky.social•16 days ago

Used to be a “content developer” for a while and was told my boss at the time to write to a Grade-5 level. How does one even do that? The mental gymnastics are beyond frustrating.

its-lex-actually.bsky.social•16 days ago

Simple English writing is a real skill and it is very important!

The Simple English version of Wikipedia is a great look into what it takes to make reading easier for people who don’t read easily.

ducttapejake.bsky.social•16 days ago

Do you know if the 21% being illiterate means they straight up cannot read, or is it a sort of 'unable to understand the message behind a given text' level? Because the first option is far more horrifying than the second.

meyrickkirby.bsky.social•16 days ago

They don't care about the future of the country, or planet if it comes to that.

johnbelusky.bsky.social•16 days ago

Elon's gonna be the Nazi President of Mars!

"Errol Musk later said it was a prescient reference to a science-fiction book written by rocket scientist Wernher von Braun about colonizing Mars. Elon is the title given to elected leaders of Mars in the book."

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/mr-nice-guy-elon-musk-124157303.html

martinrayner.bsky.social•16 days ago

Think we’re venturing into “feature not a bug” territory here with respect to the autocrats/plutocrats and others now driving the bus.

behindmyscreen.com•16 days ago

Just remember these facts when holding discourse on the internet. You’re most likely talking to someone incapable of reasoning better than a 5th grader.

jb-notes.bsky.social•16 days ago

Feels like: voting for people who harm your interests, low literacy, poverty, drug addiction and deaths of despair are all somehow intertwined part-cause, part-effect aspects of the same overall thing.

mathmatics.bsky.social•16 days ago

Thank you for this Forrest.

mxwinifred.bsky.social•16 days ago

That our current sitting president is quite probably only signature literate is horrifying.

gir-bot.bsky.social•16 days ago

This has been the right wing plan for decades. 6th grade level is below where "critical thinking" skills take hold. That's on purpose. And wow has it worked.

kamalaharrisbirder.bsky.social•16 days ago

That's exactly what Republicans want. You new here?

gagasantidote96.bsky.social•16 days ago

But they wanna gut DOE

bigmouthbitch.bsky.social•16 days ago

So they are stupid like the idiots who voted for this moron

joyfulenby.bsky.social•16 days ago

I recently found out there's footage of Elon saying if you want to get birth rates up, like he does, then people need to be uneducated, highly religious, and poor. It helps put into perspective what MAGA wants to do. They want people to be uneducated. It's their goal.

raynecloud33.bsky.social•16 days ago

This is normal republican thinking. The rich ones need people who will work till they are dead and not get ahead in life. I think it's wild that there are so many republicans fit the poor and uneducated description and follow blindly while things still don't get better. Often times they get worse.

joyfulenby.bsky.social•16 days ago

It's also why they want more
babies born. They only see them as future workers and consumers in this Capitolistic hellscape. No need for those babies to grow up smart.

its-lex-actually.bsky.social•16 days ago

OR they could be paid well enough to afford to raise happy kids. I fuckin hate this guy

drewsado.bsky.social•14 days ago

The GOP has waged a war on education for decades. GOP wants Americans dumb so they can fleece voters into following lies. They don't care about democracy, they only want power and wealth. Americans who don't understand the principles this country was founded on won't fight back.

d-reezy.bsky.social•16 days ago

Republicans manipulate ignorance to spread lies.

prairiehouse.bsky.social•16 days ago

Keep in mind that Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis and other extremists have Ivy League educations. Civics, which includes considerations of character, responsibilities, and other attributes of good citizenry is largely absent from schools, though. When it was eschewed as socialism, things soured

buzzcook.bsky.social•15 days ago

Trump wants hewers of wood and carriers of water.
Literacy just makes the plebs fractious.

burnhealz.bsky.social•16 days ago

I fully believe that raising our kids to be educated is one of the most important future goals we need to focus on in our country.

mjd2025.bsky.social•15 days ago

In the last 50 years or so our government hasn't passed a bill that truly supported the average American.

its-lex-actually.bsky.social•16 days ago

ALL AGES is really important here. Even if people don’t sign up or check it out right away, reducing the stigma and social shame of low literacy is what enables people to actually start learning.

cquia.bsky.social•16 days ago

A failing and fuckedup nation

jjsax.bsky.social•16 days ago

I'm a bit curious why they included the fact that 21% of people are illiterate. Isn't that implied when saying that 79% are literate?

laprimanerda.bsky.social•16 days ago

It’s for clarity and emphasis. Considering the literacy stats are what they are, other areas that would be lacking are media literacy, understanding statistics, and general math.

feraljoe.bsky.social•16 days ago

Have you seen our math scores?!

johnbelusky.bsky.social•16 days ago

Why not just eliminate the Department of Education.

The rich kids will learn how to read, and that's all that matters.

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