On the campaign trail, Donald Trump again vowed to shut down the Education Department and endorsed a Louisiana law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools. He has also pledged to cut funding to schools with vaccine requirements. Laura Barrón-López discussed that with Dr. Paul Offitt, a pediatrician and a professor of vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania.
He’ll find any way to defund education. Why? Because a dictator always “loves the poorly educated.” Why? Because they’re easier to control.
Get with the program, folks. Everything is about control.
Also doesn’t that open up to vouchers for Christian schools, which of course is a big bonus. I’m not from the States so fuzzy on how that side works exactly.
Edit,I do mean a bonus for the fanatical right that wants a Christian state, not a bonus for freedom.
Power. Control is a byproduct.
They want power.
They already have the power. Control/subjugation is harder. It takes manipulation and requires subjects to comply and not rise up.
The conservatives have already acquiesced to their “dear leader.” It’s the pesky liberals and progressives who have enough intelligence to know that what is happening is wrong. Get rid of that element and you have ultimate control.
Control = More Power