Don’t fall into the trap of thinking Republicans are doing dumb things with education policy because they don’t understand it, or are stupid, or some such.
This is a coordinated strategy. They planned this. They know exactly what they are doing: protecting and elevating the aristocracy by wrecking the social mobility provided by public education.
Don’t fall into the weeds arguing technical points about policy. They want you to waste time on minutiae.
A better political strategy is to point out the dark money. Point out the corruption. And better yet, point out their ultimate goal of desperate poverty for most Americans.
They don't care about the dark money, either, though, because the same has paid for some very effective propaganda. An effective education has become an assault on identity.
They don't believe us when we say the goal is poverty, they refuse to understand the history and instead lionize the very bastards who'll bepeasant them for the act of bepeasanting; their egos will not allow it.
Alex Wild
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