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What I don’t understand is why no politician who’s against this has proposed an education act under the guise of national security.
What republicans are doing with education is very dangerous. Stupid voters are easy to manipulate, which seems to be the goal, but they have to do more than vote for the other 364 days a year. Having a poorly educated population means you have less engineers designing infrastructure, less trades people building that infrastructure, less doctors to treat injured and ill people, and less skilled professionals overall. The US is largely in the economic and geopolitical position that is in due to the manufacturing and research capacity we had after WW2. For decades, the US was where people went if they wanted to be at the bleeding edge of design/research, because we had very good higher education and the skilled manufacturing to bring those designs to life. Attacking education only hastens the decline of that legacy. A few decades like this means the US will no longer be able to make the advanced military equipment used to project power across the world, or US companies not being able to find people who can maintain, improve, and innovate on products without hiring foreign contractors. If Desantis’ attacks become a national thing, they’ll be putting the US on a fast track to rapid decline and economic collapse.
I agree with what you've said, but you're missing something. Look at the U.S. as a whole. The brains who leave Florida aren't generally going to Canada. They're coming to California, or going to other more liberal, better educated, states.
Further, kids who grew up in the better-off states will continue to pursue higher education.
Republicans don't need to control the entire population. Just enough of them
definition of oxymoron
So what’s the alternative? More conservative, better educated? Is that oxymoron too or are you the moron?
Use progressive instead of liberal and they may not respond that way. It's a super ambiguous term on the internet, and even more ambiguous on Lemmy.
DID I SAY THAT? NO. Why's everyone here just jump to conclusions? fcuk man, this is why we're in the state we are in politically. "If you're not my friend, you're my enemy". There's no such thing as nuance any more and we're incredibly worse for it.
The conclusion is pretty clear in your comment: that liberals are uneducated. I’m inverting your logic to test if that holds and the conclusion there is that conservatives are educated. There’s not much nuance here and I called you a moron because your post makes a pretty moronic conclusion.
Conservatives strike me as less educated if you want to know what I think, but that’s a really broad generalization and it’s not a fact at all and just my opinion. That’s the nuance that your post completely missed. There just wasn’t much in your comment to glean any nuance anyways, and in fact I believe you are doing exactly what you are complaining about with the the not my friend rhetoric with making such comments in the first place.
Don’t make such polarizing comments if you don’t like how people respond. If you want to make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make change, as MJ said.
I doubt that's the goal for many of them (because who wants to rule a castle that's crumbled), but they have a fair number of accelerationists in their ranks who see Republicans as useful to their own goals.
As much as we try to paint them all as a fascist monolith, they have their own subgroups with their own awful end goals, and once the rapid decline has started, it is a lot easier for them to keep the momentum going.
You’re ignoring the big argument: less engineers and scientists to design and build next generation defense technology. America doesn’t give two shits until our ability to make bombs is threatened
Pretty sure that goes with “America won’t be able to field the advanced military equipment we use to project power across the world”
You're right...but the core assumption is the Rs care about our place on the world stage. They don't.
Part of the overall plan for the Rs is isolationism. They want to close the boarders and pull out of our trade agreements. Hell, I think Trump wants us out of NATO.
If we are alone over here on our big ass island, the people will be dumber, desperate, and much easier to brainwash.
The big picture is dystopian order for the US.