Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.
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And what specifically should we do?
Not to mention the desire to control media so that his agenda is delivered without question, fact-check, or rebuttal.
And social media so we can't gather to discuss on our own. See recent rash of age verification policies under the guise of "protecting the children."
…and history.
Their values are such that they are FINE with that. They don’t care what you call it. They believe any amount of horrible is a reflection on what they feel called on to suppress or eliminate. That’s the logic. The abusers say “YOU’RE so bad you MADE me do it.”
It’s Mao’s cultural revolution all over again. Destroy society to control it
I agree. Fascist hate educated, well-informed critical thinking people. These actions MUST be seen on a larger scale. "He who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" George Orwell "1984"
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I had an account on Nazi social for 15 minutes before being banned. 🤣🤣🤣 They sure hate freedom of speech and facts.
I'm definitely not the smartest person in the world, but I am well-educated and therefore an enemy of Trump and all the others fascists.
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A history professor in college told our class that it was a crime to educate slaves in the US. He also said this was typical of slave economies throughout history. "But wait," one may object, "we're not slaves." Not yet. Think it all the way through.
While they push the alter net so lies are easy to find, read and spread
I think we've established that fascism has come to America. The question is, what are we gonna do about it?
I agree. I feel like the NEW RULE should be: every post by these pundits should contain a PLAN. Turn Blue Sky into a platform for CHANGE instead of one for soapboxing and preaching to the choir. (Unless ur goin' Gavin Style;) We don't need more INFO We need STRATEGIES AND LEADERSHIP
Women too
It never ends well for the fascists.
Thank you for all you do to help spread facts. The South wants to rise again and take the other red states along.
Everyone needs to know our history to understand why we need to stop the current regime. Some of us have never been exposed to what can happen when evil is allowed to grow. Inch by inch it takes a foothold until fear is so widespread that to stop it seems impossible.
Agree, of course. FYI, I touched on this about 15 years ago in my book Camelot, Inc.
If all of the educational institutes banded together Trump would look like the stupid ass he is
Itz 100 times easier to Destroy, Deceive and Deconstruct than it is to Develop and Grow. Trump has proven even with no sense of morality can, and do rule Country(s). Trump appeals to middle and lower middle class citizens. Unfortunately, those make up a gigantic portion of the US Population.
Well put. Thank you.
and to add that: Pol Pot killed all people with glasses as he suspected some brain behind glasses
... it's totalitarian thinking, so fascism meets here other totalitarian regimes....
None of his followers are educated. No wonder they love him
That's also why Bluesky is banned in Mississippi.
I didn’t know that?!?
It's for age verification but the outcome is information deprivation. www.wired.com/story/bluesk....
Museums are communist!
With masked 'police' on the streets and gerrymandering. What are the Democrats doing? What are non-Trump Republicans doing?
I worry about those who do not read political media. Do they understand the mess we are in?
Republicans want the people educated JUST enough to keep our economy moving, but NOT enough to question, rebel, or reject propaganda.
We it inspired me to learn more
I wish more people connected the slave holding south / the confederacy (and sure, the north too, when it still had slaves) to fascism. Maybe a different variety, but it was certainly closely related!
It is so obvious! Wake up Americans
Yup
He wants everyone to be just as ignorant as he is.
Most of us would have to work overtime to accomplish that goal.
Exactly.
Let's see how long until there are gladiator like games. They already hinted that with immigrants who can play for their right to stay.
It’s called Football
UFC on the White House lawn 🙄
The dumbing down of America and the rest of the west has been going on for a very long time, hasn’t suited anyone really to have an educated citizenry, not just been tyrants
Trump is not only following the fascist playbook, he is teaching other members of his fascist party how to follow in his footsteps.
"I love the poorly educated."
Don’t forget about censorship, propaganda, and control of the media.
Trump Truth Social statement: “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad Slavery was,…….” Yes folks, how dare the Smithsonian describe how bad slavery was. Welcome to the Trump party.
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None of those politicians care about Education. Trump is just the one in the big seat. All of those Politicians are ruining this country.
Percival Everett's "James" has many moving moments, among them the high price a slave might pay for stealing a pencil, hoping to write.
Republicans have never supported education & certainly the Heritage Foundation (authors of Project 2025) doesn’t support it!
It’s easier, exponentially, to bamboozle the ignorant!
Far to many people don't care until something effects them. They vote for politicians who support tax cuts for the rich, they don't hear the part were those cuts won't help them because they weren't really listening They won't pay attention until there are tanks on main street in their city.
Interesting parallel. That's what the GOP has in mind for the entire country.
He will fail, miserably.
Nazism 101
“Every educated person is a future enemy" Martin Bormann and Hermann Göring
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Know nothings versus experts… whom should we trust? Trump dreams up the “objective” truths while straddling his golden toilet. He’s dumber than a bag of hammers.
Uneducated poor people are much easier to control and manipulate…one of the oldest tricks in history!!
An educated public is harder to control.
Dear RR Prof I just explained Tariffs to a Republican cousin. I started with Tariffs = an import tax! And ended with that they just heard ECON 101 on Tariffs. I could not have done it without you. Thank You
Pol Pot targeted people that wore eyeglasses or spoke a foreign language.
Learning and learning to think is crucial to maintaining a healthy democracy. Pictured is the final page of Chapter 2 of Carl Sagan's A Demon-haunted world.
