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Angry Trump Snaps at GOPers as Scale of Losses Sinks In: “Dead Party”
(newrepublic.com)
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My apologies, I thought you were making the opposite argument. But I still disagree.
All other things being equal, educated people are statistically less susceptible to disinformation and fallacious arguments. If they weren't, the fascists wouldn't be trying to eliminate public education, and the electoral map wouldn't correlate so strongly with education.
Foucault wasn't wrong about right-wingers using educational systems for indoctrination, but that's not the current GOP playbook. Their strategy relies on people being too anxious and uneducated to separate fact from fiction, and to provide the propaganda another way (specifically, via carpet-bombing media, social and otherwise, with disinformation). Why bother wasting time at the school district level when there are nationwide platforms where people line up voluntarily to get their ration of AI-generated, foreign-actor-crafted lies delivered straight into to their eyeballs?
Yeah, we've gotta fix the education system. And yeah, we've gotta get people to recognize where they're being controlled. But I don't think that eliminating the former is going to accomplish the latter; and clearly the other side knows it, too.
Wasn't trying to argue we should abolish public education but that we can't rely on reforming education to fix our political system. It flows the other way. Which means we also need to find ways to cultivate independent thought outside of traditional education. This comes in many forms, mutual aide, potlucks, new art, community workshops, etc but the through line is you are offering people more independence to be well.