I just had a conversation with someone who likes this because they paid for private school and that “it’s not fair” they pay taxes.
Here’s what I said.
“Yes, it is fair. You chose to send your kids to private school. Every child should be eligible for a free education. Vouchers are crap. Private schools don’t have to take them. The voucher system won’t improve education. It will just make it worse.”
Trump to sign executive action to dismantle the Education Department:
npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-53338…
Tony Stark
in reply to Tony Stark • • •The best thing for children is to put more funding into education and make sure teachers have current training, schools have supplies, and schools are safe.
I can’t take these people anymore.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to Tony Stark • • •#USpol #Education
Dismantling of #DoE
That is all correct but just scratching the surface. 👉This is no partisan fight anymore. This is an all-out assault on #democracy.
Destroying education for the masses again is the aim👈:
2)
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1141…
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... Show more...The #TrumpMuskDuumvirate is merely bringing to completion #RonaldReagan's, #RichardNixon's, and #SpiroAgnew's brainchild 1) that #
#USpol #Education
Dismantling of #DoE
That is all correct but just scratching the surface. 👉This is no partisan fight anymore. This is an all-out assault on #democracy.
Destroying education for the masses again is the aim👈:
2)
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1141…
ETA:
The #TrumpMuskDuumvirate is merely bringing to completion #RonaldReagan's, #RichardNixon's, and #SpiroAgnew's brainchild 1) that #RonaldReagan jumpstarted in his 1966 gubernatorial campaign in #California. 2)
1):
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
2025-03-20 00:10:14
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Unknown parent • • •True.
What I meant to say is that this is no clash of ideas about "what is best for the country" anymore, as between rivaling political parties, nor even an ideological "culture war." The #TrumpCoup is a hostile government takeover, planned decades ago and executed step by step:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1125…
While the economic-theory foundation was masterminded by #JamesBuchanan, the legal strategist was the (later on) SCOTUS Justice #LewisPowell:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1132…
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