The Attack On Education!

Or the dumbing down of America. Have you wondered about why the Republicans are pushing school vouchers, why Trump’s Secretary of Education wanted to tear down public education in favor of private schools. Why the Republicans want to close the Department of Education? Do you know why they are pushing vouchers?

This week’s elections point out why… two factors stand out like a sore thumb.
According to Axios: 55% of college graduates voted for Vice President Harris and 56% of voters without college degrees supported former President Trump.

People with college education think? And for the Republicans that is dangerous!

Why Pa. voters without college degrees are souring on Democrats
What the “diploma divide” does — and doesn’t — tell us about each party’s shifting fortunes.
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Aseem Shukla
September 6, 2024

In 2020, President Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by improving on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 performance among almost every kind of voter in the state.

But there were exceptions.

More than two in five precincts across the state were worse for Biden than they were for Clinton. And while those precincts ranged from rural to suburban to dense urban areas, nearly all had one thing in common: On average, they had far lower rates of college education than the rest of the state.

In one heavily Democratic Harrisburg precinct, for example, Biden won — but by 314 votes fewer than Clinton had.

In red rural Leacock Township, Lancaster County, neither Biden nor Clinton cracked 20% of the vote — but Biden got 542 fewer votes than Clinton.

Education isn’t everything. While an Inquirer analysis found that college education was the single largest predictor of vote change from 2016 to 2020, other factors, taken together, mattered more. Voters’ preferences depend on a lot of economic and social considerations, many of which are hard to measure.

In other words… the rich voted for Trump because they want to protect their wealth and the less educated voted for Trump because they didn’t know Trump lies about the economy. I knew that tariffs drove up prices and cause retaliation by other countries that put tariffs on our goods.

“I don’t think it’s overstated to say that education, beyond any other demographic factor, has impacted American politics and polarization,” said Chris Borick, director of the Institute of Public Opinion at Muhlenberg College.

I think the Trump voters are going to be in a big surprise!

PBS News looked into this…

Chris Vitale, Republican Voter:

I feel more like the Democrat Party has left me, not that I have left them.

Judy Woodruff:
He points to policies that he says have hurt the auto industry. Michigan has lost more than a third of those jobs since 1990, in part because of trade policies like NAFTA, increasing automation, and companies moving factories to non-unionized plants in the South and overseas.

Chris Vitale:
They don't realize how much they damage our employers with the regulations and the mandates and the uncompetitive positions that we're forced into.

Judy Woodruff:

That message has resonated with Michigan autoworkers, who have historically voted for Democrats. Macomb County, home to many union and blue-collar workers, has been seen as a political barometer that's flipped Republican at the top of the ticket amid economic downturns.

Trump has vowed to strip the Department of Education… ABC 7News reported that,

Former President Donald Trump took aim at the way education is being handled in the country.

He said he wanted to dismantle the Department of Education and pull funding from public schools that taught certain subjects.

He discussed his plans during an interview Friday on Fox News.

"We're going to take the Department of Education and close it," Trump said. "I'm going to close it."

"Here's what bothers me about that," Brian Kilmeade said during the interview. "Let's say you have a liberal city, like Los Angeles or San Diego, and they just decide that 'we're going to get rid of that history. We have new history. This is America, built off the backs of slaves and on stolen land.' And that curriculum comes in."

"Then we don't send them money," Trump responded.

Trump went on to say states like California would have to be watched and "if they want to get cute, you don't send them the money."

All they want public school children to learn in schools are the “3R” while the rich get to send their children to private schools. There's a push to limit certain topics in schools, such as critical race theory and gender identity issues, which some Republicans view as inappropriate or politically motivated and just teaching the basics. Just look at the books that they are banning, it fits right in with the pattern of limiting exposure that make you think. Books like the "Brave New World", "1984", "Animal Farm", "Fahrenheit 451" or books on the Civil Rights movement or slavery.

Welcome to the new "Brave New World" which will be divided into a ruling class that's educated and the new proletariat class with only the “3Rs”.