North Carolina

This was years before Trump came along. But modern Republicans have long been contemptuous of schools, teachers, education.

Remember the prohibitions in our country forbidding teaching slaves to read?

Now it's not just the slaves. Our corporate overlords and their flunkies in government wants us to be too ignorant to recognize what they are doing to us and our country.

Problem is other countries are still pushing forward with innovation, education, and problem-solving. We cannot compete with a world that is better educated, that respects truth and facts, that understands science and math.