Which is precisely why the GOP constantly seeks to control and degrade the education process.
If you keep voters dumb and afraid, they’re far easier to manipulate.
If you keep voters dumb and afraid, they’re far easier to manipulate.
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John Collins
Most of our problems could be solved by properly funding public education.
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Guess which states those are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
Dems need their own media to spread truth further than the lies are spread
https://upine.medium.com/time-to-solve-our-propaganda-problems-like-the-military-does-e97eda71ba7b
The con: 1.Scare parents 2.Offer solution (vouchers) 3.Let vouchers drain public education of funds 4.Kill vouchers/Charge tuition
5.Parents take out student debt= debtors forever
https://wapo.st/3BshKx1
https://www.salon.com/2022/04/08/the-guy-brought-us-crt-panic-offers-a-new-far-right-agenda-destroy-public-education/
The results are in 40 yrs later: it worked.
In 2024 approx 50% of voters cannot think critically.
You don’t need an education for that.
Dickensian Britain meets the Taliban.
Even RFK Jr. anti-vax theories hurt public schools: without robust vaccination, parents won’t risk sending their kids to public schools.
No wonder a big Russian disinformation campaign (2015-16) was anti-vax… pre-COVID!
Destabilize the USA. Literally, kill us.
https://politicalamericans.com/trump-voters-excited-to-receive-bonus-checks-from-china-tariffs/
POOR - DUMB - AFRAID
'Republicans have finally won their longest running war -
the war on education
What a concept!!!
There is no, "Hey, let's pass some legislation to improve our country and the lives of my constituents"... it's just one huge, endless grift.
The resistance starts locally with your school board and board of supervisors.
Run for something and/or help the good people running for these offices.
Those two places are where real impact happens, good or bad.
Want to #resist? Start there!!
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Horace Mann
Nelson Mandella
Margaret Bancroft
Carl Sagan
Epictetus
Socrates
These are just the few I can think of off the top of my head who constantly spoke and wrote of the importance of education to a free society and democracy.
Free thinking and Scientific reasoning are dangerous adversaries the Religious Establishment recognise as a mortal enemy.
Home schooling and religious private education offer a means to indoctrinate and ultimately meld the youth to be used as they see fit.
It's about control.
to NEW OWNERSHIP ??
HAS America been sold
to a small group of well-funded investors who now have
controlling interest and will be governing as an
Ersatz Oligarchy
You can't teach folks they are unwilling to learn. Which is why this problem will always persist.
https://www.donnaramadishes.com/post/an-inconvenient-truth
It's another piece of the long con that started before Reagan.