They have always wanted to replace public schools with Christian nationalist schools forcing their cult, beliefs on everybody. Control of everybody and their thinking. The national religion. It is all laid out in the 2025 plan and has been in the making for a couple of decades. They started by villainizing the teachers and public education. Then they started by defunding it cutting every year.
If you will remember, Betsy DeVos was the education secretary under Trump, and during the pandemic, they were trying to force students back into public schools, and Trump threatened them to get rid of the Department of Education and then they were going to just pass on the students to the Christian schools and give out vouchers.
She has a lot of money and came out of a Maga church in Chicago
Her brother is Eric Prince . You can Google about him and his security company.
Trump himself said he “loves the poorly educated “
American scientist Peter Gleick posted:
“There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.”
And the Evangelical right wing churches are able to control their congregations through fear and by refusing to allow their congregants to question what they are hearing from the pulpit.
It is also true that Catholic Churches in America encouraged their congregations to vote for trump the first time with the promise he would dismantle a women's right to choose an abortion in Roe vs. Wade. The American Catholic Church threw their Latino/Hispanic followers under the bus because they overlooked the disturbing moral character (that is, lack of morals) of a greedy lying playboy conman for the singular goal to eliminate the procedure of abortion to all women. No one seems to want to call the Catholics to answer for their deadly stand against their own people of Latino heritage.
Based on my life experience of 72 years and my experience in education of 21 years (and nearly getting my DMA) I can attest to the great value of a broad education that helps young people think critically and have a desire to explore and learn about many things so they are prepared for careers that are meaningful and provides knowledge of how to live in a Global economy and Global Culture I can also attest to seeing how a lack of education hurts kids, deprives them of rich experiences and opens them to the devices and indoctrination of idealogues be they religious or political. We will never be leaders of the world with a poorly educated populace but a poorly educated populace is more easily controlled and turned into obedient unquestioning workers. If you are wanting to dismantle education then you got that one covered.
Ignorance breeds suspicion of science, knowledge, people different from you in some way and leaves one susceptible to propaganda and lies. Ignorance causes fear, ignorance causes hate. Ignorance serves those in power who want a tightly controlled populace. Fascist governance thrives on ignorance and the power of suspicion. A fascist form of education merely supports the control of the rulers and the ruling class. That kind of education educations only for the purpose of creating loyal unquestioning citizens. This is dangerous for any society as we have seen in Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Soviet Russia, Putin's Russia adn a list of others who sought to control people though either meager education, no education or a very controlled education.
"All hatred is rooted in ignorance, and since hatred is the Republican Party’s sole political platform, they must propagate a steady stream of that ignorance."
The use of the word "stupid" is unfortunate, John. That implies a deficiency of brain power. Many--if not most--of the children who will be denied proper education have bright, inquiring minds that Trump intends to stifle.
The alleged Conservative six on the Supreme Court have opened the door to replace education and tolerance with Lies and Bigotry , massive ignorance by paving the way to allowing Trump to ruin education for his own perverse needs.
They are a disgrace and all six need to be removed for being consummately corrupt and un American. They , including their lying raging leader, In-Justice Robert’s need to go for America to survive.
It won’t do any good to save the Department of Education as long as State Departments of Education limit what can be taught. Witness Ron DeSantis policies in Florida that have essentially eliminated Black history and stated and local governments allowing books about topics they don’t like to be removed from libraries. DEI can’t be restored through the Department of Education with the current administration. Certainly their staffing and control of funds obliterated by the current administration needs to be restored to preserve important scholarships, grants and things like Head Start. A department with no power and a woman who hates the Department and whose experience is running the WWE can’t serve its former powers.
When Hitler invaded Poland, the first people he came for were the educated class, the scientists, lawyers, engineers and educators. I know because my father in law was there. He was an engineer. And he was the only one who escaped. His story of survival is remarkable. And I see it happening again, in my lifetime. The hatred and persecution only took two generations to re-emerge. I fear for us all.
I am a former teacher married to a retiring teacher, with 3 children teachers, one of whom is no longer teaching. This has been such a gut-wrenching year and the future seems very uncertain. The problem is fighting this misinformation. Teachers have their hands tied behind their backs right now by red state governors, legislatures, and school boards---all bought and paid for by the Trump GOP. It's what's happened in fascist movements throughout time. We have to unite and fight it but how-- if the law is no longer the law, with no more checks and balances. Too many of the masses are simply getting by and believe the lies and empty promises. They have no time to understand government or interest in the powers that reign over them and the depth of harm and violence they are inflicting on others, the vulnerable and themselves. They are already the other (as they believe the immigrants are) but do not recognize it yet. Killing the department of education is a part of killing democracy and I don't know how we stop it except by voting, if our voting system hasn't already being sabotaged.
We will need to create Alt schools and colleges, and run them like the Underground Railroad, or like the speakeasies that were hidden behind funeral parlors during Prohibition. .
The Republicans and tech bros like Thiel’s Cabal need serfs of limited literacy, and serfs that are totally illiterate, to slot into jobs that cannot be performed by AGI Robotics.
There will be zero healthcare for serfs who will make up 99 percent of the population because their deaths are now and always will be meaningless to the Purchased SCOTUS, the Purchased Congress, the Purchased Dictator, the Purchased Religion.
This will all give way, including “Nation States” to a world population living within the Islands of Technological Corporations Influence.
Fox News may not be with us in its current form that much longer. There is a lawsuit among Rupert Murdoch's children, pitting three of the four in favor of changing Fox or shutting it down, and Lachlan, the fourth child and CEO of Fox News now. It is expected that the three plaintiffs will prevail over Rupert and Lachlan, and if that happens, Fox will change into a responsible news organization, or cease operations. It can't happen soon enough
Unfortunately Newsmax is waiting in the wings to slide in its place. They are equally off the rails sycophantic, they just lack the revenue and massive audience.
As a retired professor and university administrator, I agree with what you are saying, but I think calling anti-education "stupid" doesn't help us convey why the Education Department and education in general is important. It only continues the polarization. What we need to do is help those who approve of the MAGA agenda in disrupting the Education Department, Environmental Protection Agency, and the science/medicine departments to understand why they aren't politicizing their findings. Calling each other names is not as important as learning what makes us polarized.
There are a number of new memes popping up with messages like “I hate it when people confuse education with intelligence. You can have a master’s degree and still be a clueless idiot.” That is a subtle way of indoctrinating us into believing education is not important and undesirable. Same with memes touting becoming an electrician or a plumber instead of going to a university. My father, my brother in-law, and my nephew and great-nephew are all in the HVAC business with no 4-year degree, so I have respect for the trades— for any work. However, I can recognize a systematic attempt to turn us away from wanting an education. You rarely hear statistics about how much more college grads earn over a lifetime, and efforts to make four-year college more affordable are generally dead before they are out of committee. This is planned, on purpose, demonic. Don’t fall for it. Fight it.
They have always wanted to replace public schools with Christian nationalist schools forcing their cult, beliefs on everybody. Control of everybody and their thinking. The national religion. It is all laid out in the 2025 plan and has been in the making for a couple of decades. They started by villainizing the teachers and public education. Then they started by defunding it cutting every year.
If you will remember, Betsy DeVos was the education secretary under Trump, and during the pandemic, they were trying to force students back into public schools, and Trump threatened them to get rid of the Department of Education and then they were going to just pass on the students to the Christian schools and give out vouchers.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/virus-spreads-trump-threatens-cut-off-funding-schools/story?id=71670167
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-christian-schools-vouchers-charter-education-secretary/
She has a lot of money and came out of a Maga church in Chicago
Her brother is Eric Prince . You can Google about him and his security company.
Trump himself said he “loves the poorly educated “
American scientist Peter Gleick posted:
“There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.”
And the Evangelical right wing churches are able to control their congregations through fear and by refusing to allow their congregants to question what they are hearing from the pulpit.
It is also true that Catholic Churches in America encouraged their congregations to vote for trump the first time with the promise he would dismantle a women's right to choose an abortion in Roe vs. Wade. The American Catholic Church threw their Latino/Hispanic followers under the bus because they overlooked the disturbing moral character (that is, lack of morals) of a greedy lying playboy conman for the singular goal to eliminate the procedure of abortion to all women. No one seems to want to call the Catholics to answer for their deadly stand against their own people of Latino heritage.
Based on my life experience of 72 years and my experience in education of 21 years (and nearly getting my DMA) I can attest to the great value of a broad education that helps young people think critically and have a desire to explore and learn about many things so they are prepared for careers that are meaningful and provides knowledge of how to live in a Global economy and Global Culture I can also attest to seeing how a lack of education hurts kids, deprives them of rich experiences and opens them to the devices and indoctrination of idealogues be they religious or political. We will never be leaders of the world with a poorly educated populace but a poorly educated populace is more easily controlled and turned into obedient unquestioning workers. If you are wanting to dismantle education then you got that one covered.
Ignorance breeds suspicion of science, knowledge, people different from you in some way and leaves one susceptible to propaganda and lies. Ignorance causes fear, ignorance causes hate. Ignorance serves those in power who want a tightly controlled populace. Fascist governance thrives on ignorance and the power of suspicion. A fascist form of education merely supports the control of the rulers and the ruling class. That kind of education educations only for the purpose of creating loyal unquestioning citizens. This is dangerous for any society as we have seen in Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Soviet Russia, Putin's Russia adn a list of others who sought to control people though either meager education, no education or a very controlled education.
"All hatred is rooted in ignorance, and since hatred is the Republican Party’s sole political platform, they must propagate a steady stream of that ignorance."
The Supreme Court sick six
Supreme Court Sleazy Six
The use of the word "stupid" is unfortunate, John. That implies a deficiency of brain power. Many--if not most--of the children who will be denied proper education have bright, inquiring minds that Trump intends to stifle.
The alleged Conservative six on the Supreme Court have opened the door to replace education and tolerance with Lies and Bigotry , massive ignorance by paving the way to allowing Trump to ruin education for his own perverse needs.
They are a disgrace and all six need to be removed for being consummately corrupt and un American. They , including their lying raging leader, In-Justice Robert’s need to go for America to survive.
This is just so very sad. So unnecessary and destructive.
It won’t do any good to save the Department of Education as long as State Departments of Education limit what can be taught. Witness Ron DeSantis policies in Florida that have essentially eliminated Black history and stated and local governments allowing books about topics they don’t like to be removed from libraries. DEI can’t be restored through the Department of Education with the current administration. Certainly their staffing and control of funds obliterated by the current administration needs to be restored to preserve important scholarships, grants and things like Head Start. A department with no power and a woman who hates the Department and whose experience is running the WWE can’t serve its former powers.
When Hitler invaded Poland, the first people he came for were the educated class, the scientists, lawyers, engineers and educators. I know because my father in law was there. He was an engineer. And he was the only one who escaped. His story of survival is remarkable. And I see it happening again, in my lifetime. The hatred and persecution only took two generations to re-emerge. I fear for us all.
I am a former teacher married to a retiring teacher, with 3 children teachers, one of whom is no longer teaching. This has been such a gut-wrenching year and the future seems very uncertain. The problem is fighting this misinformation. Teachers have their hands tied behind their backs right now by red state governors, legislatures, and school boards---all bought and paid for by the Trump GOP. It's what's happened in fascist movements throughout time. We have to unite and fight it but how-- if the law is no longer the law, with no more checks and balances. Too many of the masses are simply getting by and believe the lies and empty promises. They have no time to understand government or interest in the powers that reign over them and the depth of harm and violence they are inflicting on others, the vulnerable and themselves. They are already the other (as they believe the immigrants are) but do not recognize it yet. Killing the department of education is a part of killing democracy and I don't know how we stop it except by voting, if our voting system hasn't already being sabotaged.
We will need to create Alt schools and colleges, and run them like the Underground Railroad, or like the speakeasies that were hidden behind funeral parlors during Prohibition. .
The guy LITERALLY told his rally goers, "I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED!" gawd.
And they cheered!
The Republicans and tech bros like Thiel’s Cabal need serfs of limited literacy, and serfs that are totally illiterate, to slot into jobs that cannot be performed by AGI Robotics.
There will be zero healthcare for serfs who will make up 99 percent of the population because their deaths are now and always will be meaningless to the Purchased SCOTUS, the Purchased Congress, the Purchased Dictator, the Purchased Religion.
This will all give way, including “Nation States” to a world population living within the Islands of Technological Corporations Influence.
Fox News may not be with us in its current form that much longer. There is a lawsuit among Rupert Murdoch's children, pitting three of the four in favor of changing Fox or shutting it down, and Lachlan, the fourth child and CEO of Fox News now. It is expected that the three plaintiffs will prevail over Rupert and Lachlan, and if that happens, Fox will change into a responsible news organization, or cease operations. It can't happen soon enough
God, please let it be. I think FOX destroyed this nation as much as any other thing.
Unfortunately Newsmax is waiting in the wings to slide in its place. They are equally off the rails sycophantic, they just lack the revenue and massive audience.
As a retired professor and university administrator, I agree with what you are saying, but I think calling anti-education "stupid" doesn't help us convey why the Education Department and education in general is important. It only continues the polarization. What we need to do is help those who approve of the MAGA agenda in disrupting the Education Department, Environmental Protection Agency, and the science/medicine departments to understand why they aren't politicizing their findings. Calling each other names is not as important as learning what makes us polarized.
There are a number of new memes popping up with messages like “I hate it when people confuse education with intelligence. You can have a master’s degree and still be a clueless idiot.” That is a subtle way of indoctrinating us into believing education is not important and undesirable. Same with memes touting becoming an electrician or a plumber instead of going to a university. My father, my brother in-law, and my nephew and great-nephew are all in the HVAC business with no 4-year degree, so I have respect for the trades— for any work. However, I can recognize a systematic attempt to turn us away from wanting an education. You rarely hear statistics about how much more college grads earn over a lifetime, and efforts to make four-year college more affordable are generally dead before they are out of committee. This is planned, on purpose, demonic. Don’t fall for it. Fight it.