The destruction of public education, to ensure an ignorant, gullible, compliant citizenry has long, long been the dream of the ultra-conservative and far-right in the US, even beyond the Christian white nationalist aspirations of a theocratic educational model.
In many ways, “woke” is as much a slur against the “well-educated” as it is “liberals” for this reason. Just listen to anytime Desantis uses it for an example of that nuance. The irony abounds there, as well, given he attended Yale, and later Harvard Law; but that is because it is all about being “educated” the way the Christian white nationalist oligarchs want you to be “educated”.
But, as you and I have said many times recently, the MAGA-takeover of the Supreme Court may actually allow them to finally realise their vision.
One of so many reasons Harris must defeat Trump.
Hillbilly JD Vance, who went to Yale Law School(!), even talks about liberal elites!
They are supreme gaslighters who think YOU are so uneducated you’ll skip right by the mouthpiece and rush to see where the finger is being pointed!
America’s anchor around its neck is the STATE EDUCATION SYSTEM. The same RED STATES are always at the bottom of the pile and they generate the majority of the RED VOTERS in the country.
It really is statistically simple enough to chart education levels against political affiliation and votes.
It is also easy to chart taxes spent on education and social services the same way.
It is a well-known, if not widely spread, fact that BLUE STATE FEDERAL INCOME TAXES FUND THE FEDERAL PROGRAMS IN RED STATES!!
This is shown by the fact that for every $1 of taxes paid by Blue States, LESS than $1 is returned in federal programs or services. Red state federal taxes are returned in EXCESS of $1, thus being subsidized by the Blue states.
However, in most Red states, you hear about how bad Federal Govt is and how the Blue states are killing America!
THEY’RE OBLIVIOUS TO THE IRONY, AS ALWAYS!!
It’s like the MAGA sign “Keep Govt Out of my Medicare!” Medicare is LITERALLY the GOVT MEDICARE CARE SYSTEM FOR SENIORS!!!
Education in American schools is a disgrace. Schools care more about their swimming pools, football stadia, athletics tracks, theatres, and palatial surroundings than the 3 Rs. In fact, they’re so clueless, they’d even point out that only one of those words actually starts with an R, so you must be the dumb one!!!
Like I said, they don’t do irony…at least not knowingly!