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10. Dear Leader approves.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 11:28 PM
Sep 18

Oh the hypocrisy, let thee count thee ways…

1) the right wing that hates college and calls it a scam has several college influenced members of this civics project.
2) the reason we don’t teach much civics anymore is because conservatives in the 80s forced the push to take it out of public education led by Bill Bennett. Now they’re rueing that boneheaded decision and want to put it back in. (Typical arsonist always think they’re the ones to save the building that they sat on fire).
3) they want to teach civics and history, but are bringing in only conservative mindset. I bet each of these groups would probably flunk a sixth grade history exam nor could pass the citizenship test. And yet they want to create curriculum?
4) modern Republican Party realizes that educated people don’t vote for them and don’t buy their gaslighting. Those that develop critical thinking skills are not their friend. It’s not a good look for them to be the party of dumb assery, so they’re going to push “alternative facts” filled education and manipulate the masses to form their own version of Idiocracy. That will not give them the long term outcome they think it will. (See #2)

We have a thing they didn’t have in the 80s when they were successfully killing Civics education, “the Internets”.

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