If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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This is why Trump is neither the beginning nor the end of what ails America.
jul 14, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1,929 139 • view
It's been a long-haul project to push the US towards a white, Christian nationalist theocracy. If you haven't read Nancy MacLean's __Democracy in Chains__ it gives a good overview of early Project 2025's progenitors. It's a good, eye-opening read which is much maligned by right-wing pundits.
jul 14, 2025, 11:49 pm • 6 0 • view
I’d argue Trump is the best of the Republican Party. He’s a sociopathic piece of shit, but he’s simply a grifter at heart. After Trump, it will only get more racist, more fascist, more misogynistic, more xenophobic and much, much more politically competent.
jul 15, 2025, 12:01 am • 10 0 • view
And by best, you mean the worst of the Republican Party?
jul 15, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Honestly, I think he’s the best. Which is to say, it will only get worse from here. He’s an incompetent, clueless, ignorant, demented grifter. I expect we’ll see some truly evil, hateful, religious fanatically and politically effective people running that party at some point.
jul 15, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
This is true, he doesn't give af about anything but money. What waits in the shadows is far worse.
jul 15, 2025, 11:31 am • 4 0 • view
"The banality of evil" personified?
jul 15, 2025, 12:10 am • 2 0 • view
I have my own problems with evangelicals, but the way Nixon worked with Billy Graham, William Branham, and other celebrity preachers of his day has really done lasting damage
jul 14, 2025, 10:50 pm • 5 0 • view
They got played over and over until right wing politics have become central to their beliefs
jul 14, 2025, 10:52 pm • 4 0 • view
I mean....It's a whole swamp! TD never planned to drain it. He just filled it with more polluted water. Actually to call it a swamp is an insult to actual swamps. Should call it a cesspool. A lake full of piss and sh*t. 💩🤬 High crimes against the people and our democracy.
jul 15, 2025, 12:25 am • 3 0 • view
Please do a thread about how you stay positive given the weight of your specialty area. If you can, we can. 🙏
jul 15, 2025, 6:19 pm • 2 0 • view
He's the boil on top of a festering infection.
jul 14, 2025, 10:23 pm • 10 0 • view
The ass-pimple in chief, as it were.
jul 14, 2025, 11:48 pm • 2 0 • view
SCROTUS: So-Called Ruler Of The United States
jul 15, 2025, 12:34 am • 3 0 • view
Sadly, he is just their useful idiot.
jul 14, 2025, 10:49 pm • 8 0 • view
Anyone who thinks getting rid of Trump is the way out of this has really missed the big picture.
jul 14, 2025, 9:51 pm • 642 42 • view
Getting rid of Trump would be a good start, especially if it is accompanied by some kind of eye opening among his supporters. If they feel betrayed, they won't be much smarter than before but at least they won't make the same mistake right away. I say we should try it.
jul 14, 2025, 10:52 pm • 4 0 • view
It will take years of deprivation and pain and suffering before his MAGAt base recognizes they were the target all this time.
jul 14, 2025, 11:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Getting rid of Trump is ultimately up to Republican leadership though, no? And so many of them are compromised now along with him, why would they do anything?
jul 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 3 0 • view
But disappearing him would be a great start.
jul 15, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 0 • view
Yes he’s just the puppet being used….he loves the being the center of attention so he just keeps doing the shit he wants to while the rest of the Nazis work in the shadows giving him more right and taking ours away
jul 14, 2025, 11:10 pm • 11 0 • view
Oh no, I didn't write it as "getting rid of Trump *alone*" and now I'm in trouble 😩
jul 14, 2025, 11:45 pm • 144 3 • view
You're right though; getting rid of the orange felon is not a solution, but it is a step in the right direction.
jul 15, 2025, 12:36 am • 50 0 • view
Huge step.
jul 15, 2025, 2:16 pm • 4 0 • view
Any intelligent person knew what you meant. This country is not exactly known for nuance thought peace
jul 15, 2025, 8:01 am • 0 0 • view
More fool them. Crystal clear what you meant. Trump is an umbrella term for American style Nazis. The bombastic, rage baiting, rally crying, entitled prick who has visions of turning the USAs working class into a factory processing minerals & goods while it's one big country club for the elites.
jul 15, 2025, 3:58 am • 12 0 • view
Sounds about right
jul 15, 2025, 8:02 am • 0 0 • view
Good catch. :)
jul 15, 2025, 12:05 am • 7 0 • view
It won’t completely solve the problem and there will be much more work for generations to come, but removing him from office would definitely make me feel better.
jul 15, 2025, 7:44 am • 8 0 • view
We can agree that he’s the malignant colon polyp, not the cancer. Definitely worth going under the knife tho.
jul 15, 2025, 1:25 am • 3 0 • view
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jul 15, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 1 • view
Oh I can say it! got rid of trump by any means.
jul 15, 2025, 12:57 am • 2 0 • view
This started long before Trump came into the picture! Republicans have been moving toward this for decades! The problem is they’re not religious, just using religion to get rich and control people!
jul 15, 2025, 12:18 am • 16 1 • view
It’s a start.
jul 14, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Quite true Trump is a symptom of this country based on colonialism slavery and a history of white supremacy, amazed we’ve lasted this long.
jul 15, 2025, 8:00 am • 1 0 • view
I feel like we could have gotten a handle on things had he not been elected, twice, and reshaped the court, but it doesn't really matter now.
jul 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 2 0 • view
The only way out is through to something new. I can dream the Dems get a motivated majority in both houses and they start fixing everything that let this happen, but I'm not optimistic.
jul 15, 2025, 12:00 am • 4 0 • view
Yeah, the Dems are never gonna do anything to fight fascism in a meaningful way. They helped this happen.
jul 15, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
The current crop, that's mostly true, but I think we are going to see a lot of turnover in the next few elections.
jul 15, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
It'll help tho.
jul 15, 2025, 3:30 am • 1 0 • view
I don’t think him being gone will magically fix things. I do want him to stop wasting the oxygen that I have to breathe. In other words, him croaking could have a number of different things or not. But he’d be gone and I wouldn’t my mind one bit,
jul 15, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
But it will be a nice beginning…
jul 15, 2025, 11:16 am • 1 0 • view
So what is the way out?
jul 14, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Revolution.
jul 15, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
*just
jul 15, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
If there *is* a way out I cannot even begin to conceive of what it might be. And I'm a pretty imaginative guy.
jul 14, 2025, 9:57 pm • 73 1 • view
Gotta be legal though, right? ;)
jul 15, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
A general strike is what they fear most.
jul 14, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
union power literally is one of our best tools rn: organized, angry, experienced, dedicated, disciplined, united activists exercising solidarity progressive public servants & policies: genuinely still a powerful option & real way forward
jul 14, 2025, 10:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Indeed: the reason unions couldn't stop the 1930s rise of Nazism was because the Great Depression made it easy for German employers to find scabs, but the economic situation isn't like that now.
jul 15, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s why we won’t get out of it. We’ll schism into a minimum of two — more likely, three — nations. Red states will arrest people leaving their nation-state.
jul 14, 2025, 10:20 pm • 50 0 • view
I don’t believe this. 🐈⬛
jul 14, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
My fear…Trump is the great divider…he thrives on chaos…he loves to turn people against each other and sit back and gets a thrill seeing what he caused. Oh, wait! He did that at J6 insurrection, then pardoned them all and in gratitude, Proud Boys sued the government for $100 million
jul 15, 2025, 4:12 am • 1 0 • view
i think schism is inevitable at this point, but the human toll of it will be very, very high. the historical examples of partition should temper anyone's expectations of how it would play out.
jul 14, 2025, 10:45 pm • 7 0 • view
Perhaps it will provide an opportunity to kick Amazon and Wal Mart out of at least one of them.
jul 14, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
These will be the two countries.
jul 14, 2025, 11:26 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s not that simple IMHO. The dividing line is Urban vs. Rural.
jul 14, 2025, 10:46 pm • 4 0 • view
I’ve been begging blue states to come up with articles of secession. All empires throughout history collapsed, now it’s our turn.
jul 14, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Yah that's a best case scenario honestly. If I were yall I'd be looking to leave the whole country. America is an empire in decline and there's no coming back
jul 15, 2025, 1:14 am • 3 0 • view
I'm curious. Why do you think so many white Americans (my observation on social media) have such a pessimistic view about turning things around in/fate of this nation?
jul 15, 2025, 11:00 am • 1 0 • view
The system that has uplifted and provided privilege to white people all along is now weaponized against everyone. They’ve never experienced this kind of fear of institutions; never had to. 🫂 Compound that with the fact that 1/3 of the country plain can’t even see the very reality in front of them.
jul 15, 2025, 12:14 pm • 2 0 • view
I appreciate your thoughtful answer, and I agree! Any thoughts on how to move the needle from paralyzing fear to collective action?
jul 15, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
The pinned post on my profile. Centered Power With leadership style, which encourages temperance, empathy, and collaboration in a way that empowers the individual. You say it intuitively yourself; this will take mass collaboration. And that takes hearing each other in a way some never could before.
jul 15, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Good stuff!
jul 15, 2025, 1:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Please let's this happen as fast as possible
jul 14, 2025, 10:32 pm • 10 0 • view
Yeah this is fucked up. The reddest states aren't that way because of the majority, but because of who's kept disenfranchised.
jul 15, 2025, 12:53 am • 5 0 • view
You do know that there are huge blue dots in red states that are working like hell to turn things red to purple, purple to blue, right?? So just screw us?? Ex. = 42% of Texans voted for Harris/Walz. We would fight for you.
jul 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 11 0 • view
I am fighting too. But those states will never vote against Republicans. What is the solution? How will you win?
jul 14, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
We’re working to change the Dem. party here in MO. We’re getting a Democrat on the ballot in races that have been uncontested. MO votes for progressive issues = we added abortion to our Constitution, added paid sick leave. Dems quit in our rural areas long ago. We’re changing that. How about you?
jul 14, 2025, 11:00 pm • 4 0 • view
Didn't Republicans approve a referendum that will negate the abortion vote? I don't think voting or any normal channel of change exists anymore. We're in a full blown fascist dictatorship.
jul 14, 2025, 11:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Elections are still happening all across the U.S. and Dems are winning. Yes, we have a Rep. supermajority in MO that screws us. All the more reason to run a Dem on every ballot and talk to every rural voter. We are trying all kinds of things. Stop giving up on elections. Fight for ALL of us.
jul 14, 2025, 11:08 pm • 4 0 • view
How inconsiderate of you.
jul 14, 2025, 10:34 pm • 7 0 • view
Why is it in inconsiderate to want to break free from the tyranny of the right?
jul 14, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
As stated in my bio, I live in Alabama. We would be consigned to "the tyranny of the right."
jul 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 9 0 • view
Isn't that what you have now? Isn't that what we all have now? The Right gets everything they want. They have their own army already. We either have to fight a war or move on.
jul 14, 2025, 10:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Alabama and Mississippi are the models for what the Republicans are trying to create. I gather that you don't know our history. Federal court orders have made Alabama tolerable.
jul 14, 2025, 10:59 pm • 6 0 • view
Umm…I’m in a red state?
jul 14, 2025, 10:41 pm • 48 0 • view
if it doesn't happen. they will kill you if it happens, they will kill you, but you have a place to escape to. we can't stop them, only help people escape
jul 14, 2025, 11:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Bullseye 🎯 We’re all in this together.
jul 15, 2025, 12:33 am • 1 0 • view
Unironically call on them to come to Jesus. As John Fugelsang writes about, ask them which of these policies come from Jesus? Are we treating people as we want to be treated? Are we good Samaritans? Feed hungry? Etc. Call them to accountability to their own lord if they aren’t respecting civil law.
jul 14, 2025, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Are they not aware of the blessings the atonement delivers, that we may live in peace among all sinners and only love will make us better? All we need is love - said all the prophets, musicians, psych-scientists, healers, ancestors, literature and friends. It’s time.
jul 15, 2025, 12:53 am • 1 0 • view
I tried that. Gave a young couple a lawnmower, air conditioner, countless gallons of milk, pedialyte, rides. They gave me a miscarriage by sexually harassing and assaulting me. I assure you, MAGA is irredeemably evil. It’s like they’re not human anymore.
jul 15, 2025, 12:58 am • 3 0 • view
It’s the most poor in spirit who feel the need to damage their neighbor. I’m so sorry for your anguish. Unparalleled. You can’t be it for everyone. Churches were supposed to be mutual aid networks, not elite clubs, but the con men hawking sacrifices have infested the temples ones again. Peace to you
jul 15, 2025, 1:06 am • 2 0 • view
Sorry to hear that. I don't know how you can live alongside those people. Wouldn't you rather get out?
jul 14, 2025, 10:43 pm • 8 0 • view
You gonna pay my moving expenses and find me a job and housing?
jul 14, 2025, 11:39 pm • 2 0 • view
I would if I could
jul 15, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Why can’t you? Please don’t bully people for where they’re trapped.
jul 15, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
Wow that’s easy to say
jul 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 3 0 • view
You live alongside 'those people' (people who voted for Trump) as well. There are Trump voters in every state.
jul 14, 2025, 11:19 pm • 6 0 • view
Of course I do. But it's more about what the majority of the people in the area are will vote for and what their priorities are. I think any of my Maga neighbors would gladly move to redganistan if they had the chance.
jul 14, 2025, 11:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe you should put a bit more thought into what you're saying in public, to strangers.
jul 15, 2025, 12:00 am • 4 0 • view
the smug condescension toward us by those in blue states is not exactly motivating to say the least.
jul 14, 2025, 10:58 pm • 10 0 • view
No condescension meant
jul 14, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
yeah no condescension since you don't see people in red states as human
jul 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s a very common pattern I’ve observed over the years, so I guess it must just come naturally for y’all.
jul 15, 2025, 12:17 am • 6 0 • view
Yes, but it isn’t always as simple and straightforward as that. I have aging parents. I have roots here. There are many good friends here; we’ve rallied in the thousands against the injustices we see.
jul 14, 2025, 10:46 pm • 114 1 • view
To be sure, there's no reason to make it easy for Rs
jul 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess my point is that it is so easy to distance ourselves from the “others”— who would live in a red state for God sake? Well, a lot of different people—people like me who often want the same things you do. Leaving isn’t always the best solution and sometimes it isn’t even an option.
jul 14, 2025, 10:48 pm • 98 1 • view
I live in a pretty blue city in a red state. Things aren't so cut and dry
jul 14, 2025, 10:53 pm • 12 0 • view
If it really ends up with separate nations though - then leaving would become an option because it would become untenable to stay. Protesting would no longer even be allowed.
jul 14, 2025, 11:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Besides, we have the best fried chicken and blackberry cobbler in the land! 🙃😉
jul 14, 2025, 10:52 pm • 49 0 • view
I’m in a blue state but the small county I live in is red. Things aren’t divided by state but different areas. We don’t have to leave our roots. Stay live and fight those a-holes.
jul 14, 2025, 11:06 pm • 6 0 • view
I would agree 100% if I thought there would be a fair fight and if we still had a democracy. I just don't believe that is the case anymore.
jul 14, 2025, 11:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Sorry. I messed up.
jul 15, 2025, 1:37 am • 2 0 • view
It happens. These are tense times for all of us. The only time it’s hard to forgive is when it’s done purely out of malice (like maga and terfs).
jul 15, 2025, 1:38 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you! It’s ok, and I just hoped to raise awareness—wasn’t trying to pick on you.
jul 15, 2025, 2:19 am • 3 0 • view
Ok. I just don't see any way that the country is an overtaken by right wing lunatics. I mean they have their own Army now that doesn't report to anyone and it's larger than the Marines. There us no law. There will be no elections.
jul 14, 2025, 10:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Why do people always think it's so easy to pull up roots and move? No offense, but this is NOT the answer.
jul 14, 2025, 11:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Someone's never read about the Yugoslav wars and horrors that came out of it.
jul 14, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
You see a future where we can live peaceably with crazy racist fascist nut jobs? They literally want to kill 65 million immigrants.
jul 14, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
So your solution is to balkanize a nuclear power that has nuclear weapons scattered across its territory and possibly have a series of partitions that might result in mass death on par with that of the partition of India and Pakistan?
jul 14, 2025, 11:23 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s not a solution. It’s just another problem we will be forced into if this goes on too long. The SCROTUS puts state rights above God and the states won’t watch this prick disappear their people forever.
jul 15, 2025, 12:35 am • 2 0 • view
I agree. Something's got to give and it's going to be explosive when it does.
jul 15, 2025, 2:06 am • 1 0 • view
I don't have any solutions. But if we no longer have a democracy what is your solution
jul 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't know man. I honestly don't know. I don't have any solutions either. I just think balkanization isn't the way.
jul 14, 2025, 11:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Destruction of free speech and other rights for corporations. Also revoke tax exempt status for church violators.
jul 14, 2025, 11:09 pm • 3 0 • view
You just described Dem leadership for the past 40 years.
jul 14, 2025, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes. MAGA is a direct descendent of John Birchers. More like a 60/70 year movement. But, Trump is a pied piper for sociopath low frequency voters. MAGA won't go away, but I like the chances in national matchups vs JD Vance, DeSantis et al. It won't fix the damage short term, but it's a step back.
jul 14, 2025, 10:17 pm • 11 0 • view
And the John Birch Society was how Daddy Koch used phony anti-communism to divert people's attention from how he'd made millions from Stalin's gulags.
jul 15, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
"A good start."
jul 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe, but as horrible as trump is, the guy next up isn't going to be as undisciplined as trump and will not make as many stupid mistakes as trump does.
jul 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 4 0 • view
Fascists are never in it to actually govern, they all make stupid mistakes. That's why they always need scapegoats. Like we're being distracted from the rising death toll in TX by the attack on the ICE facility and other increasingly (but justified) violent acts of resistance.
jul 15, 2025, 1:33 pm • 1 0 • view
It IS, however, the most important step. Nobody should fool themselves otherwise. The battle against MAGA will go on after Trump, but it'll be *way* easier without him and the unique power he holds.
jul 15, 2025, 12:03 am • 2 1 • view
Yes - Trump is merely the pustule on the deep seated malignancy that has embedded itself (bit by steady bit) in the heart and soul of America over decades. It will take more than lancing the boil to destroy the infection and there is no guarantee that the patient will survive the needed procedure.
jul 14, 2025, 10:27 pm • 12 1 • view
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jul 14, 2025, 10:55 pm • 4 1 • view
We were founded on hate, racism, the patriarchy, ableism, misogyny, greed, and apathy. We've been pretty damn good at hiding parts of this list from time to time, but it was still always there, under the surface, waiting for the right moment to emerge. Well, they got it.
jul 15, 2025, 4:25 am • 9 0 • view
The only people we hid those things from are ourselves.
jul 15, 2025, 1:26 pm • 3 0 • view
I agree. I'm doing the best I can to help my daughter educate her children about the accurate history of this country, ugliness and all. We need to change the narrative so our kids/grandkids know the truth.
jul 15, 2025, 1:34 pm • 2 0 • view
That's the most terrifying thought to me.
jul 14, 2025, 10:48 pm • 5 0 • view
He’s not even evangelical.
jul 15, 2025, 1:20 am • 3 0 • view
He's popular with evangelical voters because he validates their worldview of racism, cruelty, and greed.
jul 15, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh I know. Sorry, my point is that he’s not even intimately familiar with the evangelical agenda. It didn’t start with him and certainly won’t end.
jul 15, 2025, 2:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Talibangelicals
jul 15, 2025, 3:36 am • 41 0 • view
This is really tastelessly stupid. You think the Taliban is the pinnacle of human depravity? If you hate Muslims so much, you probably ARE an Evangelical.
jul 15, 2025, 5:22 am • 0 0 • view
I dont hate Muslims and they are not the same as the taliban. However, both the taliban and the evangelicals are religious extremist groups that hate each other without realizing they are one in the same. Study it bruh. You might learn something and not say shit out of ignorance. Happy learning.
jul 15, 2025, 5:29 am • 1 0 • view
Happy learning? I did my Master’s Thesis on medieval Islamic philosophy. Under the Taliban, abortion was legal, and immigrants didn’t get put in concentration camps. There are much, much worse things about the Evangelical movement than a vague and passing similarity to the Taliban.
jul 15, 2025, 5:31 am • 3 1 • view
Ah yes, the classic ‘Taliban had one semi-progressive policy once, so they’re not that bad’ argument. Right before banning women from school and stoning folks. But sure, tell us more about how they're less problematic than evangelicals while we call the Ethics Department. Bold strategy!
jul 15, 2025, 5:39 am • 2 0 • view
Is this what you wanted? To argue about the Taliban? Maybe take a look around - there are more important things to argue about. I grew up with Evangelicals; they are destroying this country. And all anybody can seem to say is “they’re kinda like Afghani theocrats.” This is not a time for dumb puns.
jul 15, 2025, 5:41 am • 2 0 • view
I grew up Pentecostal. I know for a fact that they are destroying this country. I'm not arguing. I'm stating that religious extremism in any form is all the same and unacceptable. FULL STOP. It's harmful to the true piety of the religions they hijack and kamikaze into an unwitting populace.
jul 15, 2025, 5:50 am • 3 0 • view
Thank goodness we have a white savior like you to defend the honor of the taliban 🫡
jul 15, 2025, 6:59 am • 0 0 • view
Why do you claim expertise on the Taliban policies and views because of a relatively non-specialist diploma on a medieval theme, when the Taliban exist only since the 80s? Also when your subject of study was centered on an area what? 3000km away from it? In another cultural area?
jul 15, 2025, 7:13 am • 2 0 • view
That is all very akin to "I know all about the Franco dictatorship in Spain, obviously: I've studied the French Renaissance."
jul 15, 2025, 7:15 am • 3 0 • view
yep. honestly: sorry
jul 15, 2025, 7:16 am • 3 0 • view
like I was genuinely both obnoxiously persnickety in this thread AND ALSO haughty about my dEgReE (peak asshole behavior) in a frankly silly way, as you point out. genuinely, I apologize to all involved here, and hope your day improves
jul 15, 2025, 7:17 am • 5 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 5:25 am • 62 0 • view
Cultural context. It’s easier to see when someone ELSE is batshit insane. You rarely understand your own batshittery as being batshit.
jul 15, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
It's because of the sheer amount we've been lied to, from birth onward.
jul 15, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
The root of our problems goes back to the early abandonment of Reconstruction.
jul 14, 2025, 10:46 pm • 11 0 • view
Just wait until they finally convince Dems a Constitutional Convention is a good idea. It'll be over, they've game planned for 50+ years and already have what they need at the state level.
jul 14, 2025, 11:54 pm • 7 1 • view
I’m GenX. I’ll be dead before the kids figure out how to reverse this shit, and that’s not even talking about if anything can reverse the damage to our global economic standing. Hahahaha, I’ll probably die a pauper, too! Thanks, Trump.
jul 14, 2025, 10:32 pm • 11 2 • view
GenX here too and I feel the same way. Bloody hell!!!!
jul 15, 2025, 4:08 am • 3 0 • view
And that's why I've been anti religion for the vast majority of my adult life. Since the Bush era I realized they will stop at nothing to destroy the country and pretend it's a "Christian nation".
jul 15, 2025, 4:51 am • 10 1 • view
After Grok went Nazi my X timeline filled with Nazis. It’s not a small group of outsiders anymore. It helped me see we are some ways into the 4th Reich now, not because of DJT, but because of Project 2025. All the organizations & people working towards this over decades, that’s the Reich
jul 15, 2025, 12:07 am • 11 1 • view
Arguably, Reagan was the beginning. We haven't seen the end yet, although Orwell, Atwood and others have alluded to it.
jul 14, 2025, 11:15 pm • 26 2 • view
Reagan was the beginning. Billy Graham warned him not to cozy up to the moral majority. Big mistake. Let them in, they’ll take a mile, which they have. Now turned into Christian Nationalists. Trump is the end. The movement dies with him. There’s no one who can take it on.
jul 15, 2025, 12:48 am • 1 0 • view
Reagan was a real POS. Under him everything went downhill, trickle down robbed the middle class, unions were busted, prison population exploded, guns, drugs, the rise of the oligarchs. And Graham thought he needed to warn Reagan about Falwell? Trump is the demon bastard child of Reagan.
jul 15, 2025, 1:05 am • 10 1 • view
100% Matt. I completely agree with you.
jul 15, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
Nixon started courting evangelicals. His "law and order" policy was the precursor to the war on drugs, which was really just a war on black people and poor people. Really it goes back to the Civil War tho. Racists never got over losing.
jul 15, 2025, 1:21 pm • 4 0 • view
I love how you can legitimately keep tracing the origins of American racism back and back ever further. How about this: I can argue that it came over on the Mayflower. And it's not hard to find the roots of religious and ethnographic bigotry a century before that ship sailed from Europe.
jul 15, 2025, 1:33 pm • 5 0 • view
The entire Republican Party & conservative movement is the problem and always has been. It must be destroyed in order for this country to move forward.
jul 14, 2025, 10:57 pm • 13 1 • view
There are so many brainwashed people out there (maga), losing brain cells with every new covid variant, and carrying guns. And then there’s ICE, too. We’re really in trouble now.
jul 15, 2025, 12:22 am • 5 0 • view
You speak a profound sad-but-truth.
jul 14, 2025, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Correct. White supremacy (and all the things connected to it) should've been the starting point for addressing America's "ailments." But too few are willing to acknowledge its existence, much less deal with it head-on. So here we are...
jul 15, 2025, 11:08 am • 77 7 • view
But since when do white people police white people?Therein lies the problem! Too many have always been ok benefiting the white supremacy infrastructure and thus are quiet! How long had we been told white supremacist groups were the greatest threat of terrorism, yet nothing was done!
jul 15, 2025, 6:59 pm • 10 0 • view
This!!!
jul 15, 2025, 7:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes! I think we're arguing the same point: the absence of accountability and the danger therein.
jul 16, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh that wasn’t argumentative.. it was amplification..
jul 16, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol! Got it!✊🏾
jul 16, 2025, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
jul 15, 2025, 2:01 am • 6 0 • view
Yep. They’ve wanted it gone since its inception. Better they segregate & deny education to those that their little Jimmy shouldn’t have to be educated around.
jul 14, 2025, 11:12 pm • 5 0 • view
It is also the culmination of 50 years of liberals saying, “yes, there’s a few right-wing extremists, trying to interfere with everyone’s right to vote, but they are a minority, and present no danger. The systems have guardrails, and are safe. The checks and balances will protect us.”
jul 15, 2025, 3:18 am • 93 4 • view
Exhibit A: bsky.app/profile/poco...
jul 15, 2025, 5:55 am • 19 0 • view
Or if you've been paying attention.
jul 16, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
Yes - I was in a bible study in the early 80’s that linked every ill in America to removing prayer from schools. The only religion they acknowledged was fundamentalist *christianity.* Everything was about establishing a national theocracy, no matter how long it took. Glad I escaped them.
jul 14, 2025, 10:30 pm • 116 6 • view
Same here, but it was in the early-mid 70s. It took me a bit longer to escape, but I'm here.
jul 15, 2025, 4:33 am • 1 0 • view
Religious kids can pray in private. I wasn’t particularly religious, but never felt constrained if I felt the need. And I did Miami and Seattle public schools. I felt more constrained at the religion associated colleges I went to.
jul 14, 2025, 11:23 pm • 2 0 • view
And guess what? We never even prayed in public school. Ask your grandparents and great grandparents.
jul 15, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
That's KKKristianity
jul 14, 2025, 10:50 pm • 40 3 • view
jul 14, 2025, 11:33 pm • 64 8 • view
And all those Christians need quotations around them. They are Christian by label only, NOT by practice
jul 15, 2025, 5:16 pm • 4 0 • view
I've heard so many pastors talk about the evils of public school. I never hear them talk about how their kids could be the light they want to see in the world.
jul 14, 2025, 11:57 pm • 1 0 • view
A re-enactment of ‘Inherit the Wind’.
jul 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Evangelicals want to home school everyone so the boys only learn enough for physical labor jobs and girls only know how to cook and clean for the man whilst caring for 12 children - exactly like the lives of my great grandparents and grandparents.
jul 15, 2025, 9:51 am • 21 1 • view
Those people do not teach "facts". They teach "beliefs". Most of which have no basis in fact.
jul 14, 2025, 10:37 pm • 40 2 • view
jul 15, 2025, 12:30 am • 4 0 • view
Maybe we need to deport all the Republicans instead of our hardworking labor and field workers?
jul 14, 2025, 11:27 pm • 15 1 • view
Yes, it was always the plan
jul 14, 2025, 10:37 pm • 5 0 • view
Yea sure wish people had listened to us sooner- like 20 30- even 10 years ago- but no you get accused of being biased and all sorts of shit by people who in the same breath will turn around and call the perps fake Christians while sending them love gifts & supporting their candidates
jul 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 3 1 • view
😢
jul 15, 2025, 3:46 am • 2 0 • view
Yep! Life for the rest of us was better when those psychos thought government wasn't for them and they just fcked off in their weird as culty church communities. Reagan's advisors will burn in hell for this.
jul 15, 2025, 6:32 am • 8 0 • view
Yep. They’re all in on that heaven thing…it’s a destructive and defeatist mind set based in ignorance and fear. There beliefs are terrible but we have been cowed into being to tolerant to the point that have wrecked our Republic. We never pushed back when they went to war on Roe.
jul 15, 2025, 12:44 am • 5 0 • view
I couldn't help feeling at the time (Roe) that it was a boundary test. And now i see that it's one that we failed miserably. We should've been in the streets.
jul 15, 2025, 1:04 am • 6 0 • view
What a disaster for our country. I guess education is "poison" for the evangelicals. BTW, what Bible do they read anyway? Do they know that all of that is political fodder written for political reasons hundreds of years ago?
jul 14, 2025, 10:02 pm • 32 1 • view
KJV, of course.
jul 15, 2025, 12:58 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks.
jul 15, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
They don't read; they just make it up as they go along and pretend that it's in the book their illiterate followers can't read anyway.
jul 15, 2025, 12:41 am • 2 0 • view
Fundantalism, as we know it here, was popularized by titans in the oil industry. It's weird, the connection between extraction industries, racism, and a perverted understanding of the book of Revelation.
jul 14, 2025, 10:43 pm • 19 3 • view
That’s interesting, I’ve never heard that connection. Is there anything good to read on it?
jul 14, 2025, 11:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Shadow Network is a good book on the subject
jul 15, 2025, 12:19 am • 10 0 • view
Thx!!
jul 15, 2025, 12:21 am • 3 0 • view
Fire Weather by @johnvaillant.bsky.social
jul 15, 2025, 12:31 am • 7 0 • view
Ok thx too!
jul 15, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 0 • view
My sympathies. I have family members like that. However, my parents encouraged me to read everything I could get my hands on and to remain open-minded on the big issues in life - the best gift they ever gave me.
jul 15, 2025, 12:22 pm • 9 0 • view
If there’s one thing evangelicals love, it’s ignorance.
jul 15, 2025, 8:54 am • 22 4 • view
its means they can keep on beating their children while pretending theyre not enjoying it
jul 15, 2025, 9:26 am • 16 1 • view
💯
aug 10, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
Frightening. Eliminate science and religion will reign - until the next scientist comes along
jul 14, 2025, 10:39 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s refreshing to see that some people understand that this is really what’s happening. “This is all Trump’s plan!” Really? Historically speaking, have we seen a lot of incoherent, bloviating morons, as strategic planners? Trump is the clown, The Heritage Foundation is the power behind him.
jul 15, 2025, 1:38 pm • 52 2 • view
They picked a former movie actor because he appealed to 3 generations of voters, and they chose to target Christians to fill their base. Why? Can you think of a group more easily led, easily scared and easily manipulated, than a white Christian? “We’re the party of (Christian) Family Values!”
jul 15, 2025, 1:38 pm • 40 2 • view
While every leader, from their mega churches, to their local sheriffs and every politician in between, showed you nothing but the opposite of those values. They wallowed in their hypocrisy, (while robbing us blind) like pigs in their own shit, and the American Christian voter, cheered them for it.
jul 15, 2025, 1:38 pm • 21 0 • view
When you get past Catholics and Lutherans and the more Common named ones you end up in fringe religion with people who are already conditioned. They start teaching children that baby girls with u covered legs can be sexualized! Look at Spkr Johnson having a porn pact with a teenager??? Not normal
jul 15, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re not wrong. But in the 80’s and 90’s you might run into a Born Again Christian, now the vast majority are evangelicals who think they’re being persecuted because of their beliefs. And those aren’t the fringe churches…
jul 15, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes all this makes them an easy target. They already have the victim syndrome.
jul 15, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I grew up with a parent who saw what Reagan did to the California school system when he was Governor as retribution to the students protesters of the period. Hitler and the Nazis also attacked academia. So did Stalin. Authoritarianism always does the same thing.
jul 14, 2025, 11:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, indeed.
jul 14, 2025, 10:18 pm • 2 0 • view
they do not want their children brainwashed with science.
jul 14, 2025, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
75 year project….total John Birch Soc stuff from the late 50’s/early 60s SoCal.
jul 14, 2025, 9:54 pm • 93 7 • view
Agree. I was in Wisconsin in '50's. John Birchers there in droves.
jul 15, 2025, 12:20 am • 11 0 • view
Eastern Washington and Idaho. I Lernt real good about the Rothchilds and Commies and the Jewish cabals that ate children. Good times.
jul 15, 2025, 12:43 am • 8 0 • view
Yea, and the goal of hundreds of other groups as well. 🤔
jul 15, 2025, 12:38 am • 2 0 • view
Yes, a Heritage Foundation project!
jul 14, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 0 • view
I remember a friend of mine’s Republican father telling me around 1990 that the Department of Education should be abolished.
jul 14, 2025, 11:58 pm • 8 0 • view
👍👍👍
jul 15, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
I grew up a Southern Baptist, and I did not grow up in that household. My church back in the 60's had women deacons. I do not recognize what the Church has become. My mother was a teacher and I know she would never be for this because we've always been Democrats.
jul 17, 2025, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
a wet dream for the bible thumpers...
jul 16, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
Dumbing down of America
jul 15, 2025, 12:12 am • 3 0 • view
When right wingers don't get the GOP politicians they want, they keep voting GOP and pushing hard for 50 years, until they own the GOP. They've been focused since 1972. Like everyone, they whine, but they showed up every 2 years, even when they knew the GOP mocked them behind closed doors.
jul 14, 2025, 10:02 pm • 37 2 • view
Republicans will always come together over the two tenets of the Republican agenda - 1. Corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich. 2. Racism, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia and culture wars for everyone else. And Republican politicians always deliver for their voters.
jul 15, 2025, 12:04 am • 17 2 • view
Focused indeed - they seem to have been gunning for revenge on Americans ever since McCarthy was called out for having “no shame, at long last.”
jul 16, 2025, 11:11 am • 1 0 • view
Agree
jul 14, 2025, 11:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolutely! They want God (especially the Bible) in all classrooms even though there are children from all religions and those with no religious belief system in our classrooms! Separation of church and State!!!
jul 15, 2025, 12:07 am • 4 0 • view
That's true. This shit all started under Reagan and they have been going at it with the same force all that time.
jul 15, 2025, 12:42 am • 2 0 • view
I hope this is a wake up call for the many people still walking around thinking nothing going on will affect them.
jul 14, 2025, 11:12 pm • 11 0 • view
Seven mountains mandate / pillars… look up Peter Wagner. It’s intense
jul 15, 2025, 12:58 am • 5 1 • view
More of the Reagan/McConnell legacy.
jul 15, 2025, 12:18 am • 9 1 • view
A MAGAt talking point for dismantling the Department of Education is that test scores have gotten worse over the years. Incorrect. Other than the pandemic, the national average test scores for reading and math have steadily increased since the 1970s. Source: nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di...
jul 15, 2025, 6:54 pm • 10 0 • view
My father, a very liberal Presbyterian minister told me in 1980's that Evangelical Christians would be the downfall of America, if not the world
jul 15, 2025, 10:36 pm • 12 2 • view
100% The Repuklicants have to keep people dumb and full of hate and fear to control them. SCROTUM COURT can go To hell and fuq off
jul 14, 2025, 11:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Or maybe come from the South and have a family of MAGA you haven’t spoken to in 9+ years. The things is, they’d already mostly done this in red states by always refusing federal money with strings attached. Or hell, just stealing the money, like Brett Favre did in Mississippi.
jul 14, 2025, 11:29 pm • 12 0 • view
You read my mind! Still live here though. My family are unicorns around here politically and trust me, I’ve had my hair on fire for years about republican “policies”, but it’s impossible to compete with churches, they’re the center of society here, tbh
jul 15, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting reading on the real rise of the religious right as a political force. All part of the right wing’s decades-long plan to control America.
jul 15, 2025, 10:57 am • 37 10 • view
ugh just seeing a picture of thst building brings up so much childhood trauma from being forced to attend their pre-k, kimdergarten, and elementary schools
jul 15, 2025, 12:05 pm • 8 0 • view
I never went there, but I was surrounded by people who did and who supported their mission 100%. I feel your pain.
jul 15, 2025, 12:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Yup. The school only changes for $ reasons. But soon they'll be able to go back to their old ways and retain their tax exempt status
jul 15, 2025, 4:35 pm • 3 0 • view
I never thought about it before, but yes, ending segregation and discrimination in education was the reason the Dept. of Ed was founded and why racists have been so dogged in their efforts to destroy it.
jul 15, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
their answer to busing and wanting segregation again
jul 15, 2025, 6:02 am • 8 0 • view
YEP, this was a long game
jul 15, 2025, 6:03 pm • 3 0 • view
And a highly funded project at that.
jul 15, 2025, 12:29 am • 20 1 • view
koch brothers
jul 15, 2025, 1:07 am • 11 0 • view
Leonard Leo et al
jul 15, 2025, 6:15 am • 6 0 • view
medium.com/@thcarter123...
jul 15, 2025, 2:02 pm • 3 2 • view
Before Leo,Opus Dei & the courts, there was #Project1980, mandate 1 of Heritage Foundation. #KochPlatformof1980 became a part of #Project1980. Text: lpedia.org/wiki/Documen... NOTE CHART INSIDE!
jul 15, 2025, 5:39 pm • 2 2 • view
Here's the chart. ALL depts & agencies were to be abashed. bsky.app/profile/sand...
jul 15, 2025, 5:43 pm • 3 2 • view
Reagan was the face of fascism.His veto of the fairness doctrine (phase 1 of CNP)led to RW media like Fox & Clear Channel used as propaganda tools,building blocks of fascism.Bannon was a great admirer & adopted RR campaign slogan,Let's MAGA.RR busted unions, had greatest EPA scandal(Anne Gorsuch's
jul 15, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 1 • view
slushfund), began the practice of hiring foxes in charge of chicken coops, i.e.,putting anti-labor people on NLRB,gave 2 tax cuts to the rich & developed his trickle-down economy. FWIW Anne Gorsuch was Justice Gorsuch's mother.
jul 15, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 1 • view
yeah people acting like this started with Trump at annoying af.
jul 14, 2025, 11:40 pm • 2 0 • view
White people enjoyed slavery too much. They got off on it. No other country fought a Civil War to keep slaves once they didn't need them anymore, but the US did. White people identify themselves as not-"insert". It's so deep and cancerous, you've turned on each other again. You're ruined.
jul 15, 2025, 3:46 pm • 2 0 • view
It IS the US despicable Original Sin - enslaving humans.
jul 15, 2025, 5:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Where do I learn more about this? Do you have any book recommendations?
jul 15, 2025, 1:59 am • 4 0 • view
I've heard it all my life. It's the fulfillment of a Dream and they're not done.
jul 15, 2025, 12:26 am • 12 1 • view
jul 14, 2025, 11:57 pm • 68 5 • view
This is right on. Been a slow-motion disaster. Read "Democracy in Chains" if you haven't already. Still so many folks who think they won't be next.
jul 15, 2025, 5:20 am • 5 0 • view
.......... Thursday night Choir practice, Friday night Catacism study, Sunday two church services and Sunday school......... Dad abandons his family of 6 kids, church abandons Mum and us kids. My Grandfather was a founder of our church. Andrea? Whatever could you mean? (sarcasm)
jul 15, 2025, 2:00 am • 4 0 • view
I grew up in a progressive, liberal household. Daughter of a teacher/coach and so this breaks my heart as much as RvW
jul 14, 2025, 11:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Controlling education is the key to controlling USA in all aspects !!
jul 15, 2025, 11:35 am • 2 0 • view
Every single bit of 50 years.
jul 14, 2025, 11:09 pm • 5 0 • view
Yep. Charter schools are a part of that. They want the federal government funding religious education.
jul 14, 2025, 11:55 pm • 3 0 • view
😡😡😡
jul 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep. This and abortion banning is like an evangelical parent’s wet dream
jul 14, 2025, 11:42 pm • 3 0 • view
I believe it went even further back than 50 yrs. Francis Schaeffer spoke quite a bit on the subject.
jul 15, 2025, 4:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep. I'm sure some people think that coughing up their uterus is a big win.
jul 15, 2025, 12:22 am • 4 0 • view
Its shameful that the Supreme Court moved this forward. Absolutely disgusting.
jul 14, 2025, 11:14 pm • 13 0 • view
I grew up in a Catholic household. Church on Sunday, first Communion, confirmation, etc. I learned: Jesus is everywhere. A Church does not have to be a building. Churches survive on donations/money. Now that the donations are drying up they want to force people to pay thru our taxes.
jul 14, 2025, 10:42 pm • 5 1 • view
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
jul 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep
jul 15, 2025, 12:09 am • 2 0 • view
ALEC, Heartland Int, Heritage Foundation and more are all giddy
jul 15, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
How can they not see that their own descendants will become ignorant tools..??!
jul 15, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I think that is part of the appeal, but they think that their kids will be the exceptional ones.
jul 15, 2025, 5:36 pm • 2 0 • view
True enough, the "make everyone (except me!) work more, and harder!" crowd 🙄
jul 16, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
The future they are actively making is terrible for everyone. bsky.app/profile/davi...
jul 16, 2025, 6:47 am • 0 0 • view
And that is super sad
jul 15, 2025, 1:20 am • 3 0 • view
USA is now the type of failed state USA likes to invade.
jul 15, 2025, 7:04 am • 4 0 • view
If the USA saw what the USA is doing to the USA, they'd "liberate" them, but only if they have oil.
jul 15, 2025, 2:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Which they do.
jul 15, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Can confirm
jul 15, 2025, 1:20 pm • 2 0 • view
FACTS! We need public ed. Where your money goes when you buy from SisterResister.Shop : 💸 Not to billionaires ✅ To books, ballots, & bodily autonomy sisterresister.shop/products/pro...
jul 15, 2025, 12:58 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah but only possible with a scotus willing to turn a blind eye to lawlessness
jul 15, 2025, 1:34 am • 3 0 • view
Don't fret, yet. We, the people, will rebuild whatever Trump destroys It won't even take 2 years to rebuild our federal structure. But, we have to wait another year or so and get Dems back in control of our nation. Rebuilding will even improve some of these departments because of loopholes..
jul 14, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 0 • view
True.
jul 15, 2025, 11:53 am • 1 0 • view
🎁Link What a Smaller Education Department Is Doing Under Trump Cuts have hit most of the dept’s main functions, incl investigating civil rights complaints, financial aid, researching what works in ed, testing students dispersing fed funding-Dana Goldstein M C. Bender www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...
jul 15, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
A CALL TO ACTION for AMERICAN EDUCATORS: Stop asking students to recite the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ until phrases like ‘liberty and justice for all’ contain even the merest hint of aspirational truth. Refuse to participate in brainwashing propaganda. Refuse to teach children to live lies.
jul 15, 2025, 8:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Sounds good to me! Teach students to think critically and QUESTION. Truth comes from UNDERSTANDING, not from memorizing!
jul 15, 2025, 11:52 pm • 3 1 • view
A CALL TO ACTION for AMERICAN EDUCATORS: Stop asking students to recite the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ until phrases like ‘liberty and justice for all’ include even the merest hint of aspirational truth. Refuse to participate in brainwashing propaganda. Refuse to teach children to live lies.
jul 15, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I grew up with 2, both teachers. However, they also were children of the depression and WW2 and took a longer view of history. I think both would be horrified by this—my mom taught what was referred to as “special needs”. She had seen what can happen when some kids are ignored and warehoused.
jul 15, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
If you were aware of politics over the years since Reagan, you would also know this.
jul 15, 2025, 2:54 am • 9 0 • view
As is the dismantling of NPR-CPB. Given the reiterative looping of AI, any advancement of the US (other than transactional for the few) will be truncated - at best = welcome to the foundational era of a feudal technocratic serfdom.
jul 16, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I always heard that growing up but never believed it would happen. I thought people were smarter than that. Our country is going to fall behind in everything
jul 14, 2025, 11:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Not that it matters at the end of the day, but with the House and Senate in lockstep, I scratch my head as to why do it in the lawless, unconstitutional way? Repeal the act, shutdown the department. As is, the Supreme Court has debased itself, and revealed itself as a sham -part of the scam Weird
jul 14, 2025, 10:05 pm • 12 1 • view
So their nepo babies can slide into place unobstructed while maintaining the veneer of a functional system. Even cheaters want to pretend they earned what they stole.
jul 15, 2025, 1:36 am • 5 0 • view
Yes. It's been their mission for all these decades
jul 14, 2025, 10:52 pm • 3 0 • view
PL 94-142. I want to weep.
jul 14, 2025, 11:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Why?
jul 14, 2025, 11:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Why did they target the dept of education?
jul 14, 2025, 10:53 pm • 4 0 • view
Too many non White people getting an education.
jul 15, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Is that it? Most ppl getting an education in the US are still white. Is any number of educated Black, Brown, Indigenous, or Asian folk too many?
jul 15, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Yup. Education = jobs = competition. They want slave and menial labor.
jul 15, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
They want children to learn what they think and believe what they teach and become a society that is exactly like them.
jul 17, 2025, 5:29 am • 0 0 • view
Holy cats!
jul 15, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
🤯
jul 14, 2025, 11:08 pm • 3 0 • view
You didn’t need to grow up in the type of household you describe to understand this. You just needed to pay attention and see thru the red, white and blue disguise. Too many bought the America is the greatest bs and now it is way too late. Behold the power of whitewashed, Eurocentric education.
jul 15, 2025, 12:34 am • 17 0 • view
While the whole western world moved in from religion the USA galloped towards it and all for what? To become the very opposite of what was allegedly said in Palestine 2000 years ago, love thy neighbor as thyself? That particular Palestinian would be horrified.
jul 15, 2025, 1:08 am • 11 0 • view
If Jesus were one person rather than a composite of several itinerant rabbis alive during that time (and there is no proof of either), he would be incensed. Appalled. Disgusted. Furious. These people worship the genocidal deity of the Old Testament, not the Jesus of the New Testament.
jul 15, 2025, 4:36 am • 8 0 • view
absolutely and so so sad😞
jul 14, 2025, 10:56 pm • 2 0 • view
They’ve advertised well for 50 years so anyone paying the slightest attention understood their evil intentions. Their souls will pay and they never level up. Caught in the place they all refer to as purgatory and don’t realize it. Thats eternal suffering.
jul 14, 2025, 11:27 pm • 5 0 • view
I luckily didn’t have that parent but I remember they started to trying to destroy education in the last 70s, early 80s. De-segregation was the trigger for the non-rich, how they managed to amass a larger group of people to assist their wicked goals.
jul 14, 2025, 10:37 pm • 6 0 • view
That was after all, the driving motivation behind the "Pro-Life" movement. (They even said so themselves -- they had found the fight against desegregation to be a losing cause, so searched for another issue to build a "superficially non-religious" moral crusade around -- and they chose abortion.)
jul 15, 2025, 12:07 am • 9 0 • view
The segregationists are still fighting Brown v. Board (1954)
jul 14, 2025, 10:46 pm • 9 0 • view
Also true if you've bothered to read a handful of articles about the malignant Christian right.
jul 14, 2025, 10:37 pm • 3 0 • view
I firmly believe we started down this road way back in 1980 when somehow religious nuts like my mother were convinced that a divorced not very religious Reagan was somehow more "Christian" than a Baptist Sunday school teacher married to and never accused of being unfaithful to the love of his life.
jul 14, 2025, 11:13 pm • 270 10 • view
It began with Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. Big mad cause their school couldn't continue to get federal monies AND segregate. Reagan was just one of their first products. I wish I could remember the name of the documentary. It might have been Bad Faith.
jul 15, 2025, 1:40 am • 2 0 • view
YES, this! I post here often that all of this began with Reagan. He was the first R who successfully--with *full media complicitness--was able to convince the lower middle class to vote against their own financial interests. He started culture wars. (Nixon was never able to harness the media!)
jul 15, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
Reagan was much like Trump -- a convenient figurehead/stalking-horse for loose coalition* of religious fundamentalist zealots, ideologues, and very wealthy interests who felt they deserve to have anything they want. * And of course, a non-trivial number had/have a foot in both camps.
jul 15, 2025, 12:15 am • 2 0 • view
Newt Gingrich ushered in the age of vilifying Democrats. Mid 90s
jul 15, 2025, 12:08 am • 3 0 • view
need to present a reformed gop after Nixon corresponded with the growth & acceptance of then ‘reborn christians’, arrival of televangelist ministers profiting off the spread & growth of cable tv, gop partnered with evangelicals to ‘correct’ a world ruined by JFK & LBJ-and they used abortion to link
jul 15, 2025, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
As an evangelical born in 1960, I disagree. It started in the 50s with desegregation, which cut federal funding to schools who didn't integrate -- including whites-only "religious" schools and colleges. I remember prayer meetings in the early 70s and what we told God we wanted. This is it.
jul 15, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 1 • view
The reason was and is desegregation.
jul 15, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 1 • view
In wake of Nixon’s failure even more (how?) venal corrupt crew festered. Letting Nixon off was quickly followed by North & Poindexter. Dems lost will after Watergate while corruption just got worse from arms for hostages and contras to S&L crisis. Just a growing tire fire Dems stopped fighting
jul 15, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
Amen.
jul 15, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I think was the turning point in pretending that they actually cared about morality. They wanted Nixon impeached because of his bad language in his tapes, not because of what he did. Reagan showed they only cared about power, not morality. They've only proved that over and over.
jul 14, 2025, 11:55 pm • 123 5 • view
That right there was the entire purpose of establishing Televangelism as a concept.
jul 15, 2025, 1:59 am • 29 0 • view
Isn’t that when they tried to blame all the problems of the country on “unwed mothers” (or was that Bush snr). Was always astounded by that one! FFS what about the absent fathers!!
jul 15, 2025, 3:37 am • 2 0 • view
The right wing doesn’t need much gossamer thin cover for the abject christofascism that the really want.
jul 14, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
The Reagan admin is where it all began.
jul 15, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
Reagan was a poseur. He spoke words to get elected & mostly reneged on them. His inept handling of undocumented / illegals set this in motion. It was going to swell a 2nd & 3rd time because of it.
jul 15, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0 • view
It goes all the way back to Brown v Topeka. Conservatives hate the idea of integrated schools so much they developed the plan to dismantle public schools and created private segregation academies funded with public money.
jul 15, 2025, 1:53 am • 3 0 • view
The dire consequences of this dismantling won’t take 50 years. It’s happening now. This is why we must have separation of Church and State.
jul 15, 2025, 2:17 pm • 10 0 • view
@luthenraeloh.bsky.social
jul 18, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 18, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I fear we have been caught sleeping. It's time we wake up and start to push back.
jul 18, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
My niece is an evangelical. I mean, full on tambourine.
jul 14, 2025, 11:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Yup
jul 14, 2025, 11:19 pm • 2 0 • view
How much of this can be recovered in the inevitable backlash against MAGAism is the question I probably wont be round that long enough to find out, In short, the answer is probably decades if ever.
jul 15, 2025, 4:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Good question. And since I’m north of 70, I doubt I’ll be around long enough too.
jul 15, 2025, 6:36 pm • 2 1 • view
Yep you me, same boat. It makes me sad that every good thing I saw America do over the past 70 years was ripped away in such a short period of time.
jul 15, 2025, 6:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Ditto. I feel much sorrow about it. It’s similar to the grieving process.
jul 15, 2025, 6:45 pm • 3 1 • view
😓😪
jul 14, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
They chipped away with small stuff and few people noticed.
jul 15, 2025, 12:00 am • 3 0 • view
We tried to tell politicians from both parties that supported Roe, do not let the Christian freaks turn Roe in a discussion about abortion. They did.
jul 14, 2025, 11:01 pm • 9 0 • view
Facts
jul 15, 2025, 3:38 am • 1 0 • view
50 year project of ignorance. Make America Ignorant Again should be there slogan
jul 14, 2025, 11:19 pm • 5 0 • view
long before that. long before.
jul 15, 2025, 2:01 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah, my family was Assembly of God/4 Square Gospel and got all the newsletters. Of course I was home schooled (sometimes.) I shouldn't find all this as shocking as I do. Coming out of the church took a long time and was like waking up from a nightmare. Now it feels like I never really woke up.
jul 15, 2025, 1:25 pm • 5 1 • view
We can dissolve DHS now when we get back in office. It has failed to prevent a single American death.
jul 14, 2025, 10:42 pm • 3 0 • view
We should have dissolved it years ago!
jul 15, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I know as an ex-Mormon.
jul 15, 2025, 3:01 am • 9 0 • view
It’s all project 2025.
jul 14, 2025, 10:13 pm • 13 0 • view
If they think they can bring on their apocalypse through ethnic cleansing Israel, why can't they leave the rest of us alone to our heathen science and math in the meantime?
jul 15, 2025, 12:32 am • 3 0 • view
you cant be too smart or youll be able to see that all the bullshit they have been feeding you is delusional
jul 14, 2025, 10:24 pm • 9 0 • view
If they are going to eliminate the federal department of education, I need part of my tax money back because the state is going to have to make up the difference
jul 15, 2025, 1:07 am • 7 0 • view
With a bonus side of deleting info at the IRS they don't want us to know about.
jul 15, 2025, 6:11 am • 3 0 • view
"we can finally deny the devil from entering the classroom" -them, referencing teaching evolution
jul 15, 2025, 4:57 am • 4 0 • view
What is the main reason they hate it so much?
jul 14, 2025, 9:51 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s right there in the name.
jul 15, 2025, 5:07 am • 0 0 • view
It allows everyone to receive a decent education, and that includes black and brown people, women, and poor people.
jul 14, 2025, 9:53 pm • 20 0 • view
Got it. Thanks
jul 14, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Broadly, a more educated population means ppl will no longer be satisfied with their station. Republicans have no use for democracy, they want to rule like kings. Education is a way to improve oneself, find a better job. You also have the critical thinking skills not to fall for con-men.
jul 14, 2025, 9:56 pm • 7 0 • view
They want private schools for rich kids and Bible schools for everyone else.
jul 15, 2025, 6:23 am • 1 0 • view
Also, forcing people to homeschool means another cost for households, and even less freedom for women, upon whom the bulk of homeschooling duties will fall. Plus they can continue to repeal child labour laws.
jul 15, 2025, 6:26 am • 1 0 • view
It's the institution that prevents them from kicking out Black students, the LGBTQ+, women, and children with special needs out of public schools.
jul 14, 2025, 9:52 pm • 40 6 • view
Gotcha. Thanks
jul 14, 2025, 10:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Happy Scopes Week, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial in Dayton, TN. If you thought supernaturalist nutjobs (aka religionists) gave up on teaching creation to children, you were sorely mistaken. Religion was humiliated 100 years ago & Science powered the American 20th Century.
jul 14, 2025, 10:38 pm • 11 2 • view
Less than 10% of the world was literate during the Dark Ages, when it was so much easier for the Church to control the masses These are the Dark Ages and we're so happy, happy to be here today.
jul 14, 2025, 11:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Not all of them. Some, perhaps even most, but not all view the world as such, nor have a political agenda like that.
jul 15, 2025, 6:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Now they will find out that putting prayer back in schools won’t make a damn difference.
jul 14, 2025, 10:57 pm • 5 0 • view
But he used an auto pen!! (Sarcasm)
jul 15, 2025, 3:06 am • 3 0 • view
Planned & Plotted for years, by the Deep State/ GOP…Heritage Foundation- Religious Evil Extremists, who r Running Our Country Amuck. Congress seems paralyzed?
jul 15, 2025, 12:14 am • 3 0 • view
Liberals have been bickering over nonsense that whole time, squandering their occasional victories
jul 15, 2025, 2:20 am • 3 0 • view
Education is the enemy of childish religions.
jul 14, 2025, 10:26 pm • 13 0 • view
They've already built their infrastructure and installed multiple loyalists at the highest levels. This is terrifying. www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
jul 15, 2025, 4:37 am • 18 1 • view
It really is!! I remember the beginnings of this bullshit! Never dreamed it would actually find purchase and grow so big yet so relatively quietly until about 15 years ago. Then in what I liken as a series smaller explosions, it exploded to the front and center!
jul 15, 2025, 2:48 am • 11 0 • view
jul 14, 2025, 10:41 pm • 15 6 • view
Hopefully the skies will darken and then a new day will dawn
jul 14, 2025, 11:04 pm • 1 1 • view
lol Many years ago I wrote something called 'The Rupture Of The Rapture'. It was lost and I thought it was destroyed along with other things of mine, but I found a copy a few days ago. I'll have to type it all up again, but I hope to have that to post for people before too long. 👍
jul 15, 2025, 1:55 am • 2 1 • view
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jul 14, 2025, 10:49 pm • 6 3 • view
The white trash belt.
jul 14, 2025, 10:52 pm • 3 1 • view
jul 14, 2025, 10:49 pm • 3 2 • view
jul 14, 2025, 10:48 pm • 3 3 • view
Statistical maps showing the differences between Bible Belt states and the other states:
jul 14, 2025, 10:48 pm • 3 3 • view
jul 14, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 2 • view
jul 14, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 2 • view
jul 14, 2025, 10:42 pm • 13 6 • view
These evangelicals are a major part of the problem. They are driven by misinformation and distortion of religious teachings and the Bible. They are mostly not genuinely religious ignoring the teachings of Jesus to make them fit their twisted ideology.
jul 15, 2025, 1:48 am • 6 0 • view
It’s just about power. My God is bigger, and more powerful than yours—so I’m better than you! Bonus, mine is a forgiving God, so I can be evil, if I want, and get forgiveness! Best of both worlds! Not exactly how that was supposed to work, though!
jul 15, 2025, 4:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Dismantling the DoE will inevitably result in a massive waste of US intellectual capital, further entrench social disadvantage & lower productivity. That seems very inconsistent with making American great. I'm only an ignorant Australian but I do know that all human advances begin with education.
jul 15, 2025, 12:27 pm • 38 4 • view
it will also have gangs of bored teenagers roaming the streets with nothing to do... you can guess that will lead to
jul 17, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly, and they will so easily be seduced & exploited by those who make their money in nefarious ways
jul 17, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
yeah so much for protecting children
jul 17, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Correct. They believe in protecting a fetus, but once they're born, they're on their own.
jul 18, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
prolife ends at birth
jul 18, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely. Such hypocrisy.
jul 18, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Tsk tsk! By your comments alone, you would be deemed “woke” by all those undereducated Americans and thereby suspect of (*gasp*) intellect!! Whenever you hear someone squawk about “war on religion!” it’s really been a war on education all along.
jul 16, 2025, 10:48 am • 1 0 • view
You got me, I'm an Australian with a university education who educated disadvantaged teenagers for over 20 years. That taught me that education is the only pathway out of poverty. So yes, I'm woke as hell. A govt that chooses to defund education is planning to keep some kids poor & ignorant.
jul 16, 2025, 10:58 am • 1 0 • view
Bingo!
jul 16, 2025, 11:00 am • 1 0 • view
I'm shocked! Well, not that shocked, but it's even worse than my cynical self thought.
jul 15, 2025, 2:38 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm not. The writing was on the wall. White America grew complacent,ignoring the warnings of Black people, for we understood the nature of the beast.
jul 15, 2025, 3:18 pm • 2 0 • view
It was sarcasm... I've always thought Americans were thick.
jul 15, 2025, 4:15 pm • 2 0 • view
That gets me a few blocks a week from people I don't really disagree. I thought about using tags to mark that content 😁
jul 17, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Reddit used to use the old /s which is useful, but yours is more technical, which I love!
jul 17, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I sincerely doubt the last one. Maybe they forgot the "in" before the "sufficient". If 4 in 5 can do that, why can 40% not read their children a story? And what the fuck kind of parents don't work on improving that? Some people have dyslexia, but not as many. The Clown is surely below 3rd grade.
jul 15, 2025, 7:22 pm • 4 0 • view
🥺🤬🥺🤬🥺🤬
jul 14, 2025, 10:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Why do the rich not realize that every success they have is because someone like me believes that I will have what they have some day? If you take that away, you just get to be smart for a generations and then you get to wade thru the shit-covered streets with us.
jul 14, 2025, 11:26 pm • 3 0 • view
My parents were the son of a Union worker and the daughter of Russian Jew immigrants, yet both renounced their roots to become Birchers. Little wonder our grandparents raised us.
jul 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Humans sure make their world complicated! Meanwhile, we raccoons will keep an eye on those shiny coins and maybe scavenge some good fortune from the chaos. Optimism paws first!
jul 15, 2025, 12:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you for social media, history channel, movies, and grandparents. Kids no longer need a classroom to learn real history. They will learn the truth in spite of Trump.
jul 15, 2025, 12:51 am • 3 0 • view
You don't have to be raised by evangelicals to know what's up. Republicans have unity & make small, but consistent progress to reach their goals. Democrats have endless in-fighting & push an agenda the country isn't ready for yet. Then they suffer harsh blowback which results in lost ground.
jul 15, 2025, 11:30 am • 7 1 • view
Democrats do not push any such agenda They push GOP lite Their donors do not wish for the betterment of the voters
jul 15, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
that last part of what you said is itself expressed through the lens of right-wing propaganda. why do republicans have "goals", but democrats have an "agenda"? why is the country "ready" for a rapist king instead of a president but not "ready" to have health insurance or equality? framing matters.
jul 15, 2025, 11:44 am • 37 1 • view
Because Dems have no goddamn clue how to talk to voters, while Reps could sell ice cubes to eskimos. Trump's bill says it all - every time it is mentioned on the news or written in print, they use its official name. Contrast that w/ generic-sounding "ACA". Republicans gave it the name "Obamacare".
jul 15, 2025, 12:28 pm • 2 0 • view
i agree up to a point, but it also helps that republicans have both richer and dumber people on their side, so even if their message is moronic, it gets spread and repeated until it seems true
jul 15, 2025, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep calling your opponent "dumb" & wonder why Democrats only lose demographics and not gain any. That elitist bullshit has cost Team Blue countless elections over the years. And if they are so dumb, then surely the brainiacs on the Left could find a way to change those feeble minds!1!!
jul 15, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
i'm not running for office. republicans win by whipping up the lowest instincts of fearful fucking imbeciles. shitheads. morons. cretins. dipshits. fuckwits. people who laugh and clap at cruelty, flag-waving, and being openly lied to. there are a lot of them out there. i don't have a solution.
jul 15, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Not only do you not have a solution, but you're also part of the problem. Dems will never expand their Base by denigrating people. Pushing away folks due to arrogance is how we got into this mess. I'll reiterate, if these people were sooo stupid, it should be trivial to make them switch parties.
jul 15, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
lol let's talk denigration. republicans denigrate people all the time. non-white people. it works great! because of the dumbness and fear. dumb and scared people love being racist! no, i do not have a solution to this. seems like your solution is to be more polite to the racists. i do not agree!
jul 15, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
You're missing the forest for the trees. GOP has its base because they have a clear & consistent (sooo important) message for literally DECADES now. Dems will change their message 1/2 way through the goddamn week. And let's drop this nonsense that Dems don't also use fear mongering. That's horseshit
jul 15, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
feel like we're vaguely on same side so i'll stop here. i'd just like to point out (as in my first response to you) i think you've (consciously or not) bought into bad-faith republican framing in your ideas about democrats. you're using their pieces and their board to frame your ideas. take care!
jul 15, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
there should be twenty legitimate political parties to choose from in the US. thirty. fifty. but the fact that it's a binary choice between science, universities, and education and... openly destroying those things does not mean i need to be MORE POLITE to dim-witted republicans. they chose, not me.
jul 15, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
the fact that they're too dumb to realize they're being lied to, too dumb to feel shame at bringing about obvious evil results, and too dumb to survive the wound to their fearful little egos of being called dumb is a big problem, but it does not change the fact that they're dumb. it proves they are.
jul 15, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
trying to bring in "elitism" is a red flag. useless. disingenuous. only mentioned by insecure or malicious people. it's absurdly transparent propaganda that tries to use being a civilized human being and not a lizard-brained pawn as an insult. enraging that people like you fall for it.
jul 15, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Well said!
jul 15, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
The right has a very well oiled and financed messaging machine which stays on message, using fear as a motivator. The left can’t seem to build the same momentum, even with topics that have an undercurrent of catastrophe, like global warming.
jul 15, 2025, 12:08 pm • 9 0 • view
could have that if one of the 2 major parties in the US was actually consistently left-ish rather than steadily becoming a watered down conservative party
jul 15, 2025, 1:03 pm • 8 0 • view
I will agree that the right stays united on the end game (white supremacy imo) and will compromise a lot to get there. The left is mired with in fighting and turns on each other bc we are fighting against it all.
jul 15, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
THAT is what Mitch McConnell still idiotically considers his (cough) legacy -- his dirty deeds to create the SCOTUS to overturn both landmarks to turn the democracy my ancestors created into a dictatorship masquerading as Christian theocracy.
jul 14, 2025, 10:53 pm • 7 0 • view
Look up Terrel Bell, the second secretary of the DOE. He fought Reagan to not make cuts to the department. This has been going on for almost 50 years. It’s sick.
jul 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 6 0 • view
And now that they can preach politics from the pulpit, they're a rich man's dream. We will become a nation of Olygarchs and the poor.
jul 15, 2025, 11:16 am • 12 2 • view
For anyone who doesn't understand the implications of eliminating the Dept of Ed, it's primary purpose was to ensure that minorities & women had equal access to education. It was established following the Brown vs Kansas board of education ruling. White evangelicals don't like educated black slaves
jul 15, 2025, 1:57 am • 152 25 • view
A MAGAt talking point for dismantling the Department of Education is that test scores have gotten worse over the years. Incorrect. Other than the pandemic, the national average test scores for reading and math have steadily increased since the 1970s. Source: nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di...
jul 15, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I've noticed they focus on one off events, incidents they can point to that suggest the dept of Ed isn't working, like the reason behind Bush's No Child Left Behind program.
jul 15, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, generally their appeal is emotional, not factual.
jul 15, 2025, 7:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Outrage not informed
jul 15, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Getting rid of Trump won't save us, we need to break the power of right-wing white evangelicals completely. Easier said than done
jul 15, 2025, 1:58 am • 109 6 • view
They need to be treated as any other religious extremist like Isis, boko haram etc and stood against a wall and second amendment’d
jul 15, 2025, 2:29 am • 36 3 • view
Give them due process as required, then, long drop, short stop
jul 15, 2025, 2:34 am • 30 0 • view
The same due process they’ve decided is appropriate for ice abductees I hope…. :)
jul 15, 2025, 2:35 am • 17 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 2:41 am • 10 0 • view
The Christotaliban definitely are in control right now.
jul 15, 2025, 6:14 am • 3 0 • view
I’m afraid we just have to live through the end of America and see what comes next at this point. The inauguration was a Humpty Dumpty moment.
jul 15, 2025, 5:16 am • 1 0 • view
I'm afraid you're right. America as a nation has proven it doesn't deserve to exist under current frameworks. As someone sworn to defend the Constitution, it saddens me to have to say that, but, the more and more fascism takes hold in this country and the response ranges from apathy to delight...
jul 15, 2025, 5:38 am • 3 0 • view
Yep. Germany had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, through DeNazification after the war, and had their noses collectively rubbed in what they had done for MANY years afterward. (If the Winners had done that after the American War Over Chattel Slavery, we maybe wouldn’t be here. 🤷🏼♀️)
jul 15, 2025, 6:30 am • 1 0 • view
Lincoln didn't want it that way, but what Johnson ended up doing made the situation worse.
jul 15, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I do wish American history were taught with just a tad bit more honesty, but it’s too late to get all those horses back in the barn
jul 15, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
American history needed to be taught with way more honesty than anything we've seen to date. In highschool I had brief lessons on America during slavery & reconstruction, such that I didn't understand what carpet baggers were until after college. Most of what we were taught was 20th century America
jul 15, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I had the opposite. As a Gen X are in the Midwest, they were heavy on colonial and revolutionary history, a little bit about the Civil War, and pretty much stopped after reconstruction. 20th C America, Empire of Perpetual War, didn’t even hit the radar. (we had a lot of Vietnam vet teachers)
jul 15, 2025, 6:57 pm • 1 0 • view
That might be why. I too am Gen X, and beyond the revolutionary period, nothing was touched until the 20th century. Colonial times were kind of skipped over as were the indigenous wars of the late 19th century and then we were talking about WW1 and 2.
jul 15, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
That being said, I certainly don't disagree with you about the chilling implications of its abolishment. Education will once again be the exclusive domain of wealthy white males, particularly Evangelicals and Tech Bros.3/
jul 15, 2025, 3:51 am • 1 0 • view
That's their goal: White men to lead, white women to breed, blacks to slave, all else in graves
jul 15, 2025, 4:01 am • 1 0 • view
So, DoE creation was not a direct reaction to Brown v. Board at the time of the ruling. Equal educational access is certainly an important function of the department, but it has others as well, such as educational funding (grants,loans) and data collection.2/
jul 15, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
Brown vs the Board had a significant impact on what would become the Dept of Ed, the latter having been ruled on in 54, one year after the founding of the dept of Ed. What do you think the Ed funding was based on? You hear all this talk about title IX, what do you think title IX relates to?
jul 15, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
Carter created the Department of Education in 1979. Brown vs. Board of Education decision was issued in 1954 and further clarified by Brown II in 1955. Until 1979, most educational discrimination issues were handled by DOJ Civil Rights division.1/
jul 15, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Carter separated the Dept of Ed from the collective then known as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1979, which itself was founded in 1953, one year before the Brown ruling.
jul 15, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
They don't like seeing educated women either, and haven't shut up about it ever since.
jul 15, 2025, 5:55 am • 3 0 • view
A CALL TO ACTION for AMERICAN EDUCATORS: Stop asking students to recite the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ until phrases like ‘liberty and justice for all’ include even the merest hint of aspirational truth. Refuse to participate in brainwashing propaganda. Refuse to teach children to live lies.
jul 15, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 1 • view
Yep
jul 15, 2025, 5:11 am • 1 0 • view
Why do the evilgenitals dislike d.o.e.? Creationism?
jul 14, 2025, 10:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Public Education became the enemy to conservatives when 1) Evolution began being taught and 2) Christian prayer was no longer allowed. They had public education. It threatens their house of cards.
jul 15, 2025, 1:20 am • 7 0 • view
Also racism
jul 16, 2025, 12:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Indeed, yet evilgenital racism and the direct links between the broken judeo /christians to slavers never seems interesting enough to topic?
jul 16, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes!
jul 16, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I first started hearing about it in 1977. The right-wing lodges slow and steady and some changes are nearly imperceptible. Scary people.
jul 15, 2025, 12:30 am • 12 0 • view
This is the rub...to some people, none of it feels extreme because they didn't ever feel a shift. Boiled frogs.
jul 15, 2025, 1:00 am • 7 0 • view
Anti-Christian project, ironically.
jul 14, 2025, 11:19 pm • 4 0 • view
The federal department of Education has only existed for 45 years.
jul 14, 2025, 10:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Because it was needed to make sure states abided by civil rights laws in the schools.. mostly southern schools. Without it, they won't have to worry about the disadvantaged or disabled anymore. F them
jul 14, 2025, 11:59 pm • 7 0 • view
And contrary to the comment to which I responded, it has not been 50 years.
jul 15, 2025, 10:14 am • 1 0 • view
They are vastly outnumbered. As long as those of us who believe in democracy continue the fight to regain Congressional power we will prevail. Then we can return them to the background where they can languish & to leave a government run for the wellbeing of the majority of Americans.
jul 15, 2025, 4:14 am • 13 1 • view
MAGA hates public education. It represents the most stressful 4 years of their pre-adolescent childhood.
jul 14, 2025, 10:49 pm • 7 0 • view
Well the Midwest managed all these years without the benefit of education, so it makes perfect sense.
jul 15, 2025, 4:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Meanwhile, the Democrats seem to never be working on even a 5-year project.
jul 14, 2025, 9:55 pm • 124 5 • view
seem to be unable to think past the next election.
jul 14, 2025, 10:28 pm • 4 0 • view
Too much incompetence for Democratic leaders not to be in on the scam. #mafiastate #FollowTheMoney
jul 14, 2025, 10:31 pm • 3 2 • view
they have a quarter-year project to increase stockholder profits
jul 14, 2025, 10:20 pm • 64 0 • view
jul 14, 2025, 11:32 pm • 39 3 • view
Stay broke
jul 15, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
They’re working on strongly worded letters, and trying to teach the septuagenarians what a podcast is.😒
jul 14, 2025, 10:22 pm • 2 0 • view
We need a LIBERAL LIBERTARIAN party.
jul 14, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
The democrats have been working on a 100 year project. To expand education, healthcare, social safety nets, equality. Fixing that stuff, building something, takes time, persistence and a social conscience. We the people were not interested in building anything together. It’s not on the Dems.
jul 15, 2025, 2:17 am • 2 0 • view
Mostly because Dem voters don't have the patience for the sort of incremental progress that Republicans have accepted. They chipped away for decades. We got pissy after a healthcare bill wasn't good enough and let the Dems get washed.
jul 14, 2025, 10:50 pm • 37 6 • view
When you say "Dem voters," you mean white progressives THEY got pissy. I long for the day people stop acting like progressives and Democrats are the same thing. They aren't.
jul 15, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
This video has the new ideas to win Medicare for All in the U.S. It wins the debate against market fundamentalism. Part of a graphic cartoon series that rewrites economics to include non-money social organizations. Concentrated & thorough. It has lots of applications. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-3C...
jul 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t confuse continuous pressure with a lack of patience. When I was born, legally recognized same sex marriage was almost a fantasy and even something like the ACA would have been a lot to imagine.
jul 14, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not. Continuous pressure is what got this gains. Those gains have also tended to be followed by a temper tantrum from just enough people that has unwound a lot of progress.
jul 14, 2025, 11:23 pm • 9 0 • view
You’re calling continuing to protest and apply pressure to politicians a “temper tantrum” when the GOP is facing death threats from what’s supposed to be their side?
jul 14, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sorry... but what?
jul 14, 2025, 11:41 pm • 4 0 • view
If you’re not familiar with US politics beyond Democratic Party criticism of the left, you’re really going to be lost on BlueSky.
jul 15, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
I’m pretty sure he’s referring to young Dem-leaning voters sitting out in 2010 and 2014 because of the ACA
jul 15, 2025, 1:04 am • 5 0 • view
Technically, the reliable Dem voters (black voters) have that patience. The problem is most voters don't even pretend to listen to them.
jul 15, 2025, 5:36 am • 6 0 • view
Now, I do want to say before it gets too twisted, NO, the ACA wasn't and isn't good enough. We can, and should, be doing a lot better. Getting to that "better" point is the rub, and this constant 1 step forward, 2 steps back needs to stop if there's any hope for progress.
jul 14, 2025, 11:16 pm • 12 0 • view
But the ACA was a HUGE improvement over what we had. And voters refused to acknowledge that it was the most progressive piece of legislation that could pass into law and survive the 40 year Republican controlled SCOTUS. And it ALMOST was too progressive to survive.
jul 15, 2025, 12:17 am • 14 0 • view
Correct. And rather than reward ourselves for getting that over the finish line, enough of us stomped our feet and walked away. Now, it's effectively dead in all but name.
jul 15, 2025, 12:21 am • 12 0 • view
Exactly. And now the most likely outcome of trying to expand Medicaid or Medicare will be the SCOTUS ruling that they are unconstitutional. Not just the expansions. The entire programs. 2 of the justices have already suggested that if a court case challenging them came forth, they would.
jul 15, 2025, 12:25 am • 11 0 • view
📌
jul 14, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly.
jul 14, 2025, 11:00 pm • 1 0 • view
What's the point of five-year projects when you all get pissy and stay home every single time the midterms roll around and they haven't already fixed every problem in America to your exacting specifications?
jul 15, 2025, 1:19 am • 3 0 • view
Which midterms have I skipped?
jul 15, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
Because we have to undo all of the f’ed up crap Repubs have done
jul 15, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
I want someone to explain, like they’re talking to a teacher: how long before my job disappears?
jul 14, 2025, 10:08 pm • 6 0 • view
depends on where you live but if its a place that already doesnt value teachers highly (red states) the funding probably doesnt exist for anything further than a year or two
jul 14, 2025, 10:58 pm • 2 0 • view
🎯
jul 15, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
100% correct. I went to private Baptist school and they literally said, "do not attend secular school" as college advice.
jul 15, 2025, 11:38 am • 9 1 • view
I didn't, but I've known. QUOTE: The first “Mandate for Leadership”( aka Project 2025) was released in January 1981, containing policy proposals of reform that would make government more efficient and effective. President Ronald Reagan distributed Heritage’s book at his first Cabinet meeting.
jul 15, 2025, 6:32 pm • 7 0 • view
I believe one of the Koch brothers was going to run for president on that platform.
jul 15, 2025, 10:08 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 10:17 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
newrepublic.com/article/1548... Found this one as well
jul 15, 2025, 10:28 pm • 2 0 • view
I find it interesting that so many life long Republicans who supported and strengthened this agenda into what it has now become are suddenly "shocked" at the outcomes. "I didn't vote for this"🫤🤣 The current state of affairs has been building steadily for those paying moderate casual attention.
jul 15, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s what they say in public. You can tell by their voting records that they know exactly what’s going on.
jul 15, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
🤣🎯
jul 15, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. They viewed Reagan as "too Liberal". An openly dangerous agenda that is now manifest.
jul 15, 2025, 10:37 pm • 2 0 • view
I grew up in AZ with parents who weren't quite sure the moon landing wasn't faked but were very certain about Goldwater: In your guts, you know he's nuts.
jul 15, 2025, 1:52 am • 3 0 • view
This 100% I am a “heathen” in my family bc i pursued an education and career. It scares me to my core bc i know the hate in their hearts.
jul 15, 2025, 12:38 am • 4 0 • view
100%. The evangelicals cut a deal with the GOP in the ‘60s. When Kennedy was elected, the two parties had similar platforms. By ‘68, the injection of Christian Nationalism was complete. They worked tirelessly to gerrymander, question Dem legitimacy, and position themselves as economic “stalwarts”.
jul 14, 2025, 11:37 pm • 18 1 • view
My dad was a decent guy. A pastor by not an extremest. However, the sociopath that was my mother was pretty much Donald Trump in a pantsuit with no money from the south a white supremacist who religiously, emotionally, and physically abused me to say the least.
jul 15, 2025, 7:59 am • 9 0 • view
Sorry Kris. I had the opposite parental plan ! Same lousy life. Im trying to use my first hand expertise of narcissism to enlighten others.
jul 16, 2025, 9:22 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks
jul 17, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Talibangelicals!
jul 15, 2025, 3:37 am • 5 0 • view
I have been telling my wife this! The Pentecostals especially!
jul 15, 2025, 3:35 am • 3 0 • view
White evilgelical denominiations participated in this - not just Pentecostals. Black, white, latino....we ALL prayed for it to happen as early as the early 70s. I was there. I remember.
jul 15, 2025, 4:32 am • 4 0 • view
I know that but I'm saying Pentecost because that's the religion I grew up in. I was there.... black people were descendants of Cain and Public school was basically being taught by Satan. Everyone but us was going to hell. All the bullshit of the Talibangelical teachings I got to experience.
jul 15, 2025, 4:44 am • 2 0 • view
I understand that. We were Protestant (USAF), then evangelical after my stepdad retired, followed by charismatic evangelical. Pentecostals didn't have a corner on the market. We got it all, too. I learned the same shit, prayed the same prayers, etc. Let's just agree it was horrid.
jul 15, 2025, 4:50 am • 4 0 • view
They're all still horrible and still teaching the same tired shit. 🙄🤦
jul 15, 2025, 4:55 am • 4 0 • view
In new and increasingly disgusting ways. I'm staggered I used to consider that shit 'normal.'
jul 15, 2025, 5:06 am • 3 0 • view
How did you see thru it and move on from their thinking?
jul 15, 2025, 10:58 am • 2 0 • view
I've been trying to condense that to a statement that would fit character limits for almost 10 years. I have yet to succeed. It was a combination of factors over a span of about 25 years. I'm writing a book about it -- currently on my gazillionth edit (hopefully the last).
jul 15, 2025, 1:28 pm • 2 0 • view
It takes years to undo all that programming and brainwashing. Literacy, healthy skepticism, and curiosity are the best tools to combat it.
jul 15, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
You have no idea how few people escape the system. Anyone discovered questioning the leadership will be admonished, disciplined, counseled, and -- barring repentance and a return to stupidity - shunned or dis-fellowshiped. They'll kick your ass right out if you oppose them. There's no middle road.
jul 15, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Deeply depressing.
jul 15, 2025, 2:28 am • 3 0 • view
This highlights the organizational challenge the democrats face. They get together multiple times a week by the millions across this nation to coordinate our downfall while we sat at home depending on MSM to keep us informed.
jul 14, 2025, 11:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Also long known by anyone who works in public education.
jul 14, 2025, 11:41 pm • 3 0 • view
The thing is, they have been trying for 50 years and it hasn’t worked so they are forced to use coercion, which won’t work either, and they are all at their life expectancy so they will literally all be dead in ten years.
jul 14, 2025, 10:30 pm • 10 0 • view
There are many, many younger ones.
jul 14, 2025, 10:46 pm • 5 0 • view
Yeah. All of them mad at their overachieving moms
jul 15, 2025, 12:34 am • 2 0 • view
A lot of them were raised by fundies.
jul 15, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Very disappointed in the USSC People will see in time but the kids will suffer the most . 😞
jul 14, 2025, 11:04 pm • 2 0 • view
... Their mission has been relentless for decades. The desire for Church and State to rule with ultimate authority cause that's what their god told them. Never mind the desire to be free is why they fled Europe in the first place ...
jul 14, 2025, 11:36 pm • 7 0 • view
Why we even pay taxes anymore
jul 14, 2025, 11:06 pm • 7 1 • view
I’m actually looking to start a podcast where myself and guests discuss the decent of Republicans into fascism. I’ve chosen the starting point of the decent back to ‘64 with Barry Goldwater and the southern strategy but also plan on covering Ralph Reed and his Christian coalition
jul 15, 2025, 1:38 pm • 6 0 • view
Sounds excellent.
jul 15, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Think about going back to FDR & the new deal. Most Republicans at that time hated the programs. Many during that time believed democracy was dead & fascism was the way to go. In the 5 years I’ve been following History professor Heather Cox Richardson threads go back to the late 1800’s.
jul 15, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah the new deal greatly expanded the government and created more of a relationship between citizens and the government in which the government serves as a safety net for it’s citizens which the GOP has been trying to abolish for as long as I’ve been alive
jul 15, 2025, 7:48 pm • 3 0 • view
I would subscribe. Know thy enemy
jul 15, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
That is so sad and 100% correct.
jul 14, 2025, 10:46 pm • 3 0 • view
I didn't grow up in an evangelical right-wing household, but I did know of the 50-year crusade.
jul 15, 2025, 12:26 am • 6 0 • view
When people as how could the USA turn into a right wing dystopia over night....It wasn't over night. It was there all along. Racism, misogyny, beliefs in eugenics, right wing ideologies, libertarianism - extreme, hatred of tax and looking after others, subjucating of women, white entitlement...
jul 15, 2025, 3:51 am • 108 5 • view
Yup, it’s been there the whole time. What’s changed is the media was leashed and used to normalize it. Now it’s suddenly acceptable to wear hate, ignorance, and stupidity as some sort of badge of honor. At least before these sickos had to isolate themselves from polite society.
jul 15, 2025, 5:32 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, and the people who are into those things have been obsessing over seizing power for generations, dedicating countless lives and vast (ill gotten) fortunes to the cause of spreading misery
jul 15, 2025, 11:32 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly!! The country was FOUNDED on these principles.
jul 15, 2025, 4:26 am • 32 0 • view
I wrote a little essay years ago about the role Hollywood blockbusters have played in radicalizing right wing Americans. I think it's even more relevant today: A' they wee words: share.google/cTLVc0ngk0Qx...
jul 15, 2025, 5:57 am • 0 0 • view
And an unusually large percentage of the population who believe in religion, unlike nearly any other worthwhile, modern society…
jul 15, 2025, 11:02 am • 0 0 • view
Bingo. 👍
jul 15, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
An entire media system promoting it...
jul 15, 2025, 10:57 am • 1 0 • view
to what end? to prove there really IS a sky fairy?
jul 15, 2025, 12:11 am • 4 0 • view
An educated and critically-thinking electorate makes it difficult for the patriarchy to maintain control, and to stay in power. Better to have people who are primed from birth to follow, unquestioningly, whatever their patriarch leaders require.
jul 15, 2025, 3:57 pm • 2 0 • view
i have only found ONE thing in their christofascist tome that WE NEED, ostensibly spoken by their main guy, jesus: the 11th commandment. "love one another. as i have loved YOU, love one another" i think those are words we ALL should live by, no matter WHO said it first.
jul 15, 2025, 4:49 pm • 2 0 • view
In full agreement!💖
jul 15, 2025, 7:43 pm • 2 0 • view
back in the day when RELIGION was separate from public school, it became THE GOLDEN RULE and that god fella had nothing to do with it.
jul 15, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Well God might have started the trend—but I get your meaning…it was just the right thing to do—not a religious mandate.
jul 16, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view
youtu.be/z-iWe4qXUD8?...
jul 16, 2025, 1:06 am • 1 0 • view
your heart and your conscience KNOW.
jul 16, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
I think this is true. I was raised a little differently. My parents were not church goers—not religious. Neighbors took me to Sunday school on Sundays, aged 5: I loved it! People were kind to each other, they fed me, and we sang songs that sounded right: build your house on the rock, not sand.
jul 16, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
By 8, I got myself up and onto the Sunday School Bus, all by myself. My Mom would take away my Sunday School if I misbehaved. Still, by age 9, I told the pastor I wouldn’t be coming back, because I was going to talk to God all by myself. To Pastor’s credit, he wanted to know more…
jul 16, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
I explained about “what if someone was on a deserted island and didn’t have a pastor—God would need to talk to them, right?” He had more questions; I decided I’d be coming back to Sunday School, just in case he had anymore questions about the matter.😂 Kids do have built-in mechanisms to understand!😊
jul 16, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
don't look at me. i don't take priming.
jul 15, 2025, 4:04 pm • 1 0 • view
lol! Not an accusatory statement. Just trying to articulate the “to what end” question. Evangelicals have also been having LARGE families for decades, in addition to raising “primed” families to be “Christian Soldiers” for their coming Theocracy. Gotta give them credit for playing the long-game!
jul 15, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
ah, we've spoken BEFORE! HI! the young'ns who are bright don't prime either. long term leaves a LONG TIME to observe objectively. THAT'S What mother nature created them to DO., primed or not.
jul 15, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view
it's one way mother nature ensures the species' survival or at least gives it its BEST shot at survival. the brightest will be the most discerning and back in the day, become LEADERS.
jul 15, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Hello friend! Great points! 💖✊🏼🤗
jul 15, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
beauty day neighbor!
jul 15, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
💖
jul 15, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
back at ya. youtube.com/shorts/EPd3E...
jul 15, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Keep them ignorant and pregnant
jul 15, 2025, 12:05 am • 4 0 • view
They've *always* hated the Department of Education.
jul 14, 2025, 11:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly
jul 15, 2025, 12:23 pm • 1 0 • view
This has been the vision of the Heritage Foundation since Paul Weyrich and his buddies got it rolling.
jul 14, 2025, 11:30 pm • 25 3 • view
Trump’s cooperation is the groundwork for setting Project 2025 in place and then promote the next conservative president that fills all the boxes and it won’t be Trump. Josh Hawley has seen himself as a future president back when he was a young teen…if not him a more pliable choice? Vance?
jul 15, 2025, 12:50 am • 7 0 • view
Vance was hand-picked for this as the successor, but I don't think he's well-liked.
jul 15, 2025, 12:59 am • 2 0 • view
#goodstuff Like Nicole Graham who refused to let her horse drown in quicksand…let’s keep holding on to hope. youtu.be/_X6D5OJPuUY
jul 15, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, however that could be in our favor, I hope any choice the MAGA usurpers make fails spectacularly & if that’s Vance, all the better. (I insist in living with my idealistic fantasy as long as I can!)
jul 15, 2025, 1:07 am • 4 0 • view
hurts EVERYONE-all it takes? 900 pages to destroy democracy-by put T in office-destroy middle class-leaves oligarch & Poor & desperate-in the name of Jesus violate “thou shalt not take the name of the Lord your God in vain” 2 form a theocracy-control nation. www.advocate.com/politics/wha...
jul 15, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
I guess right-wing Christians are more patient and watchful than the believers in DEMOCRACY... "Conspiracy" was an HBO movie about the Reinhard Heydrich meeting to settle the Jewish question... After the meeting, one man turned to another and asked, "Do you think we will see the dawn again?
jul 14, 2025, 11:53 pm • 3 0 • view
I can confirm, all my life I heard my parents spew their wishes for the government and the acts they should take. It was a mirror image to the directives of project 2025. All of this is just people saying their quiet thoughts out loud. It has been like this for years.
jul 14, 2025, 10:29 pm • 8 0 • view
You don't need to have grown up in an evangelical household to know that. You just have to be the kid who made a spear thrower from instructions you read in a book to freak out evangelical parents 50 years ago.
jul 15, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the only reason I was allowed to stay in a public school when a Christian one opened was that my mom's parents didn't let her go beyond 8th grade (even at a Christian school) and she really valued a good education
jul 14, 2025, 11:38 pm • 5 0 • view
I feel like a lot of people who didn’t grow up this way also know this. The only people I know who are thrilled about this are either hard core evangelicals or hard core old-school Catholics (the type that don’t think Vatican II or the Pope is valid, & regular Catholics aren’t “real” Catholics).
jul 14, 2025, 11:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Nah they are all racist
jul 14, 2025, 11:35 pm • 5 0 • view
[unfortunately] interesting,… they’ve been coming for public education since Carter and Teachers Unions demanded progress.
jul 15, 2025, 12:22 pm • 11 1 • view
That is precisely why I call them the #Talibangelicals, they want the same government Afghanistan has now that tRump Surrendered during his last term, as they wrap themselves in the flag and wave crosses in your face.
jul 15, 2025, 12:17 am • 4 0 • view
Just a few years back it was part of Rick Perry’s presidential campaign platform (along with eliminating departments he couldn’t even remember)
jul 15, 2025, 1:03 am • 5 0 • view
Sad. Sorry.
jul 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes. In spite of them telling me to be a teacher....
jul 15, 2025, 9:30 am • 1 0 • view
Yup, the dumbing down of America has been a long process that began, if I remember correctly, in the late 60s.
jul 14, 2025, 10:33 pm • 6 0 • view
💯
jul 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep.
jul 15, 2025, 12:18 am • 2 0 • view
This video has the new ideas to win Medicare for All in the U.S. It wins the debate against market fundamentalism. Part of a graphic cartoon series that rewrites economics to include non-money social organizations. Concentrated & thorough. It has lots of applications. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-3C...
jul 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep. To me a 50 year waste of time to find solutions that aren't helping. Their time could have been spent getting pedophiles out of their organizations.
jul 14, 2025, 11:37 pm • 6 0 • view