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Lonestarblue

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14. And Republicans are not finished dumbing down America.
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 09:55 AM
Jan 2022

In Republican-led states, they’re banning books about race, about LGBTQ, and no doubt about women, especially minority women. They’re turning social studies courses into myths while trying to turn science into superstition and religious beliefs. We will have a generation of kids who come of age only to learn that their education was essentially useless, except perhaps for mathematics and physics which Republicans haven’t yet figured out how to bend to their peculiar ideas.

It is the children in Democratic-led states who will have a true education that will prepare them for the workplace and an understanding of how our government and our country functions. Those are the future scientists who will do something about climate warming and addressing pandemics while many Republican kids who just follow in their parents’ footsteps will remain the uneducated base the Republican leaders want.

There's a biblical passage that springs into my mind sometimes: there's nothing new under the sun captain queeg Jan 2022 #1
It's from Ecclesiastes 1:9 which is wnylib Jan 2022 #9
Yeah I get some of those auto corrects like that captain queeg Jan 2022 #11
Well, that's because Sagan IS Satan! krispos42 Jan 2022 #19
Oh dear. I fear that my phone is wnylib Jan 2022 #21
Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite OT books because it pounds on the illusions that PatrickforB Jan 2022 #26
Most people regard Ecclesiastes as wnylib Jan 2022 #28
Wow, is THAT a blast from the past! I read Dragons of Eden in the way-back-when - PatrickforB Jan 2022 #30
I read it back in the mid 1980s wnylib Jan 2022 #31
Yes, I belong to a Noetic Sciences discussion group that meets one Saturday a month. PatrickforB Jan 2022 #32
Ecclesiastes 1:9 Lonestarblue Jan 2022 #10
Wish that I could give this more than 1 ChazII Jan 2022 #2
The dumbing down of America: Auggie Jan 2022 #3
Sadly, Delphinus Jan 2022 #4
When Democracy gets in the way of Income Streams... Bourgeois Liberal Jan 2022 #24
Must agree Rebl2 Jan 2022 #33
Full quote at end of show (excellent): erronis Jan 2022 #5
Thanks for the quote. Wow - he was right on! TheRickles Jan 2022 #8
An accurate description of social decay. wnylib Jan 2022 #13
And Republicans are not finished dumbing down America. Lonestarblue Jan 2022 #14
Think about that last sentence though. plimsoll Jan 2022 #16
Sagan was prescient, an intellectual equal to Michelangelo, but why less celebrated is itself Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2022 #18
Thanks, was getting ready to search for "Carl Sagan quotes" KS Toronado Jan 2022 #15
Tnx, I was just gonna turn on "Notes" and use the voice recognition to type out the quote mitch96 Jan 2022 #27
Yikes. The guy nailed it long ago captain queeg Jan 2022 #29
K&R UCmeNdc Jan 2022 #6
KNR niyad Jan 2022 #7
Kick dalton99a Jan 2022 #12
Wow, he saw it coming. Farmer-Rick Jan 2022 #17
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2022 #20
A "celebration of ignorance". That's it. We stopped ... Whiskeytide Jan 2022 #22
Superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas... ananda Jan 2022 #23
An amazing man.. mountain grammy Jan 2022 #25
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