More of this please.

[kpete]

Rep. Frederica Wilson to Betsy DeVos: "I've had some honest disagreements with my friends in the Republican party about how to move education forward but I've never, not one time, believed that they were out to destroy public education until I met you."

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[Newest Reality]

1. Isn't the Republican motto:

Just be ignorant and trust us!

Destroying the already neglected public education system is job one if you want to preserve that dinosaur called the GOP. It's irrelevance is glaringly evident and even the demographic changes to come won't support it as a meaningful opposition to a relevant party in a digital age.

Job one will be to remove all the appointees that Trump chose because the qualifications were to either not know anything about the agency you were to head and/or having a demonstrated antipathy for said agency. The mission: destroy, decimate, end it if possible or leave it shambles.

Now, in a world where the Fourth Industrial Revolution is in progress, and for the common good of this country, we can even put aside the myriad of policy disagreements we have with this obsolete relic of a party. What matters most is that the evidence shows they are neither savvy enough nor capable of supporting and nurturing what this country has to have in order to survive and flourish in the accelerated change and transformation that is ahead. The USA will fall and fail with that kind of leadership and that will be irreplaceable as other countries move forward.

The end of the GOP as a relevant party is the beginning of America's thrust into a very digital and advanced future. Perhaps some other party could emerge that would have something useful to offer us all?

[yonder]

8. Well said as usual, NR.

Defund any system they don't like to "prove" it doesn't work. GOP's SOP.

[PatrickforO]

12. Trump is circling the drain as we speak, and the GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln.

It has become the party of Trump, rage filled, bigoted, racist, full of chest pounding nationalism and woefully short of common decency and compassion.

I think people are sick of living in a 'post truth' society. I mean, this whole 'truth is not truth' and 'alternative facts' thing is bull shit. And people are getting mighty sick of it. God knows, I am.

You know what I think will happen? I believe that Trump will drag the party of Trump down the drain with him when he goes, and the Democratic party will end up splitting into a centrist party (think Obama, Clinton and Klobuchar), and a progressive party (think AOC and the squad, Katie Porter, Warren).

Because, you know, the GOP just isn't sane anymore. Not by a long shot. Every darned one of them seems crazier than a hoot owl.

[Newest Reality]

16. I like your prognostication there...

Well, if that comes to pass, then there will be only ONE benefit from Trump in the long run if he serves as a catalyst to sink the GOP.

So, perhaps that's a likely scenario. Thanks for sharing that. The ideas about the Democratic party. Interesting and visionary.

We need more vision and insight in general. We all know what's wrong pretty much, so maybe we can start to be REALISTICALLY optimistic in our projections and realize that what's going on out there starts IN THE MIND and as we change ours, things can change too.

[Duppers]

22. Nationalism

Saw this the other day...

[PatrickforO]

23. I like it. The play on words reminds me of the Christmas season, when I

always think of what Brad Pitt said in the movie Fight Club: We buy shit we don't need with money we don't have.

[Duppers]

21. "Isn't the Republican motto: ...

Just be ignorant and trust us!" 👍

Rather like religion, they go hand 'n hand. Churches promote this Republicanism.

[Garrett78]

2. Public education and media reform must become top priorities.

The greatest threat we face is ignorance. The Republican Party can't do what it does without mass ignorance.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Betsy DeVos is pure evil.

How someone like that has the nerve to call herself a "Christian" just amazes me. I will never understand the hatred that these people have for the average American.

[FakeNoose]

6. Betsy DeVos is a one-per-center

... and one-per-centers are NEVER Christians. They might call themselves "Christians" for political gain, but that is all. Their only goal is to lower THEIR taxes and increase THEIR income and screw everybody else. She has nothing in common with the rest of us 99% Americans.

[maddiemom]

14. And just how many BOATS does she have, again (not talking Sunfish here, but yacht types)?

[Fritz Walter]

7. Well, she probably holds regular prayer vigils on any vessel of her family's fleet of yachts

Of course, they'd be "by invitation only," and -- given the recent headlines about this administration's quasi-religious alliances -- you can guess what they'd be fervently praying for.

For fun, let's (re-)watch the intro to the "In Case of Rapture" episode of HBO's series "Six Feet Under", imagining that the Lady Secretary is the character in this clip. Roll film...

[CaptYossarian]

11. "In God we trust" doesn't qualify as a prayer.

[CaptYossarian]

4. They also want to destroy all labor unions.

They can't stand that there's a middle class between them and the American serfs.

[Dan]

9. Laughter,

normally one would say that revolution comes from the middle class. But America is sort of different, the American serfs can tend to be downright violent once they figure out that there is no hope.

[CaptYossarian]

10. Most of today's serfs voted for the orange goon, so they can't figure out much.

Because he claims to be rich, they think he'll make them rich. The best they can hope for is to upgrade to a double-wide.

[Skittles]

5. she seems naive

that has been a goal of repukes for a long time

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Another vile billionaire destroying another government institution. That simple. GOP high fives.

[Moostache]

15. Its MORE than just destroying institutions...

It is an attempt to enforce the disparity in opportunity and access that is destroying our entire society under the guise of "fairness".

Public education is one of the ONLY ways those born in poverty or beneath the means required to obtain an education caan be freed from mental slavery. An educated mind is so much harder to control, a mind open to questioning, to the scientific method, to doubting authority for authority's sake alone is something they rightfully fear.

People should ALL be educated to the highest degree they wish to attain and are capable of working towards, but to ensure THAT as a possibility, a solid and common frame of reference and foundation MUST be available to ALL. Public education, even for all of its flaws, IS that foundation, that equalizing force for good, that opportunity to rise above circumstance and privation and need and into possibilities, knowledge and equality.

These monsters do not WANT the poor or the less affluent educated because it does not serve their primary reason to live - the acquisition of material wealth and power over others. They make me sick, I wish they would all contract horrible diseases and suffer long and painfully before expiring, but what we must NOT allow is the animals like DeVos and company to achieve their REAL GOALS - hegemony and plutocracy with only their approved as being 'worthy' of education.

Well, fuck you much much Betsy, and all the horses of those who ride with you.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Could not agree more. It is a real war against public education, and has been for a long time.

The underlying malicious intent, as you so well articulate, can only be construed as a very aggressive form of domination. I truly hate these "people." Thanks for the reply. I wonder what it will take to say "enough"?

[gibraltar72]

17. She tried mightily in Mich.

[Bob Loblaw]

18. If republicans can't monetize a thing

it is of no value to them. Hence the long slog toward privitization of the US educational system. She's right.

But I'm sorry to say that her thing for cowboy hats is no less odd nor distracting than never wearing a jacket to Congress.

[warmfeet]

19. They want to destroy

everything and profit from the wreckage. That is their motto.

Somehow, this has become the American mantra.

I will fight it to my last breath.

[Demovictory9]

20. wow

[Mc Mike]

24. She's a radical bircher. They hate public education.

[saidsimplesimon]

25. Adoption shortage fuels policy?

I've become a cynic when it comes to "motives" of Republican politicians.