- cross-posted to:
- politics
- cross-posted to:
- politics
Summary
The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump’s long-standing pledge.
However, Congress must approve the agency’s abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.
GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.
Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.
How you all haven’t had a revolution I’ll never understand.
Read Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 for some insight.
Also, that whole treatise on language that Orwell stuck in the middle of 1984…
When the capitol of the country is possibly thousands of miles away, and missing work means losing health insurance and becoming homeless, it terrifies a lot of people that can’t even miss one day of work for being sick, let alone the days’ journey and expense it would take. Much longer than the maximum 8 hour drive it would take to get from anywhere in Germany to Berlin, by comparison.
Not an excuse either, the US is just huge, and set up for citizens to fail if they actually stand up.
DuH! And where are all those proud people, who so furiously attacked Russians with rhetoric: *why won’t you stop Putin, you lazy asses!"
Jan 6th 2021
Those morons didn’t come from DC, distance didn’t keep them from acting!
Oddly if you look into a lot of them, there were a lot of “small business owners” that aren’t beholden to a company or people connected to someone else’s wealth, or illegal under the table wealth, or other shady things. It has been a while since I looked into it, but it was a combination of personal fiscal stupid decisions, access to rich with money to burn. The tl;dr was basically: they didn’t care what they did to themselves because they thought The Orange Oompa McBurger Loompa was going to anoint them all soldiers of his magic rich person court.
When you have a fatalist/selfish/sure-thing psychology working “outside” the system, you really don’t care if your kids have medication, and you don’t lose your health insurance because you’re taking Ivermectin from the neighborhood vet that sells it under the table.
Surely there are protests in places other than DC too though
I’d love to be at the protests tomorrow. Why it’s on a weekday I’m not sure, but my capitol is hours away, and I work. I just started a new job and barely make enough to make ends meet until I get my first commission checks. I wasn’t working for months prior.
I literally can’t afford to go protest.
Bread and circuses. No one wants to revolt.
“The super bowl is on and I just heated up some nacho cheese dip.”
We aren’t starving enough. That’s why. I give is 18 months or so.
Look at us in Russia. Years go by, and we still are not revolting. I’m afraid, it will not be months for you.
For better or worse, civilians here have far more guns. But, your point still holds.