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Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing.
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It's by design.
Once upon a time, the USA had a strong middle class. Billionaires got taxed heavily, and our public schools were the envy of the world. Well funded and produced a lot of great students.
But educated people are difficult to control and even harder to dupe. The GOP realized that if they can gut public education, the masses will become malleable again. Meanwhile, the children of the rich can continue to go to expensive private institutions for their own education. So the rich stay educated, and the poor's go in the gutter.
Only problem with that is that a society like that becomes very unsuccessful, lowering the standard of living for everyone, including the rich.
The uber rich in India are doing ok. It’ll probably be like that. A caste based society
Are they though? What about the air pollution? The rich have to breathe the same air. For now, anyway.
Eh, they have to drive on the same shitty roads, be stuck in the same traffic, breathe the same air, and on and on.. sauce: been there, done that.
Also cutting education now has no effect for about 25 years or so(in their view. Its approximately right but not completely true...) Their short term brainrot is so bad they would abolish education entirely in a heart beat and coast on those miniscule savings for a few decades until the world rips itself apart...
Also, my pet conspiracy is they all know the world is going to devolve into chaos due to global heating and climate destabilization anyways so why should they care about education when its not going to produce anything worthwhile when the chaos hits... from what I'm seeing 2040 is where things get dicey and most things have inflected negative. 2050 is where things break down genuinely. Too many bad things happen at once...
I've already accepted that I'll join the revolution when it comes. I will gladly strive for the communist cause.
It should also be noted that they must be malleable beneath the threshold of the GOPs competence. So to effectively manipulate, the GOP needs a population more ignorant than the DNC does. The left can afford smarter ppl because the leadership itself is more competent, it ain't like education isn't being gutted in blue states as well