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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Lane3 who wrote (50317)1/1/2018 6:11:47 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 364115
 
I cannot believe we are having this discussion. The Republicans have been trying to replace secular public schools with vouchers for 50 years. Now they have the perfect conduit for the effort to turn secular public schools into religious schools.

Betsy Devoss, she is another village idiot and religious zealot that Trump appointed as secretary of education is working on doing just that. . A billionaire zealot that never went to a public school.

The plutocrats/oligarchs that have control of this government would love to keep the masses ignorant. It is easier to use propaganda on uneducated people than educated people. The first thing tyrants always do ismuzzle the press and education. Everyone knows that.

Ask yourself why only 6% of scientists are Republicans and 81% lean democrat and 51% describe themselves as liberal.

Fox news, Trump and the Republicans have been so successful at fooling the people, that the people keep voting for things that are against their best interest.

As I keep saying you greatly underestimate the intellectual ability of the average person which comprises at least 80% of the people. One standard deviation below the mean and Two standard deviations above the mean. Stanford Binet.

And the way education e.g.free pre school, changes things is that studies how poor kids start kindergarten two years behind rich kids. Free preschool would close that gap.

If everyone is educated, bosses will be picked by individual capabilities as determined by people who hire them.

That's the way it works now. How does educating everyone change either the relative capabilities of applicants or the hiring determinations of bosses?
You never addressed that question. How does educating the kids at the back of the concert hall get them a better shot at the jobs currently filled by the signalers?


In science they have a term called "knowledge directed perception".

There's also a term called "confirmation bias," which means seeing what one believes rather than believing what one sees.
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