> The cynic in me suggests that one of the political parties in the US doesn't really want the population well educated.
yes just the single party that is the opposite of mine of course ;)
yes just the single party that is the opposite of mine of course ;)
Here's a for instance:
In ruby red Idaho, where I live, Mike Lindell said that votes were switched from Trump to Biden. [1] Trump won with 64 % of the vote in Idaho.
Get this:
"Butte County after the election reported a tally of 1,193 votes for Trump and 188 for Biden. Lindell contended Biden only received 130. But the hand count of ballots found 188 to be accurate."
So Mike Lindell thinks the democrats reached into Butte county in Idaho and twisted 50 votes towards Biden!
[1] https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-election-r....
Yep. Both U.S. political parties are equally problematic! No distinctions to be drawn, whatsoever!
I thought one of the benefits to the US was a "marketplace of ideas".
Is the "markeptplace of ideas" like when the Media and the DNC incited mass riots for eight full months before the 2019 election, mass-terrorizing American voters? To what end? To make sure there was a "fair trial" (note: this assured the opposite)? Or to make sure that the preferred candidate was elected? Again, by targeting American voters.
I recall a certain January 6 even to which the convicted criminals Elaine Stefanik refers to as "Hostages".
Who are you talking about?
Yes, there are a lot of people in prison. They have been subject to norm-breaking prosecution under the opposition party's adminstration. Whenever an opposition party decides to arrest and prosecute its competition, they try to deflect from the authoritarian fact and deride those people as crimimnals as much as possible. This is the playbook for every tin-pot dictator since Sumer.
And in this instance, the authoritarians in question rode into office on eight months of nation-shattering street terrorism that their party incited and protected. Of course, the dictators proclaim those riots as perfectly legitimate and that of their competition as criminal. See: Tin Pot Dictator.
Republicans, much like the Tories here, appear to want to cut taxes because everything they say is about reducing government interference.
Not always a bad thing, but cutting taxes inherently means some services will get caught in the trim.
When your Department of Education releases things like this, I can see why you would ignore the highly emotional charged language
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/fact-sheet-house-repu...
However I never see proposals from Republicans to improve education, just either cuts or demands to ban books. Do you have examples where they have proposed improvements to education? Without that then I'm afraid Republicans really do always to appear to be anti-education.
https://prod-static.gop.com/media/Resolution_Platform.pdf
I don’t think any party is for slashing tax revenue anymore. The GOP wants a supermajority for raising taxes.
Reading the DoE press release you linked, it sounds like the objection is to double-dipping.
None these proposals are very education-forward at all, and are mostly just hot button issues to rile up the base. Each of these policies just decreases educational support and funding. How will any of these policies have any beneficial effect on the quality of education American’s receive?
Don’t even get me started with their stated tax policy. The Republicans’ entire platform on tax reform is to repeal the Johnson amendment, a ban on non-profit political campaign activity that prohibits non-profits (which includes churches) from participating in, or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for political office; and to make the tax code “so simple and easy to understand that the IRS becomes obsolete and can be abolished.”[0] This is a literal quote from the 2016 Republican Platform that you linked. Yeah, let’s just abolish the IRS. That’s a super realistic policy.
Their tax policy is just laughable.
[0] https://prod-static.gop.com/media/Resolution_Platform.pdf
That was 2016, which was Trump who gave you folks tax cuts and attacks on education. Completely mad.
a lot of political topics, particularly foreign policy and economics, are far too complicated for ordinary people to be informed about. if you ever have the time i would recommend reading the book "propaganda" by jacques ellul. or just skimming the chapter titled "the necessity for propaganda." it's pretty relevant to the thread as well