Report Card for Donald Trump

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(12-22-2016, 08:58 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Trump is the destroyer of education. Our new "education" secretary:



As George Carlin says, the oligarchs who rule us don't want an educated public. It's not in their interests. That's why their man, Trump, wants to shut it down.

Just remember the delightful statement by Donald Trump : "I love under-educated voters!"

White, under-educated voters, of course. People either unable or unwilling to 'read between the lines'. I have said frequently enough what the Romans made of the ability to 'read between the lines'. Voting for Donald Trump is 'dumb' voting, as he stands for 'dumb' politics -- government strictly as the enforcer of the will of economic elites who see the common man as livestock at best and vermin at worst.

Under-educated people are perfect for work on plantations and in sweatshops. I hope that plantations and sweatshops are not the idea of 'American Greatness' that Donald Trump believes in. Under-educated people are also the people most amenable to totalitarian politics as shown under Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Saddam, Assad, the Kim dynasty, and Daesh... and Jim Crow.

But let us consider something else about education: school teachers constitute one of the largest constituencies in America as one of the largest occupational groups. In many communities, school districts are the biggest employers. Teachers are a big part of the American middle class, and it is hardly surprising that someone hostile to the educated middle class is hostile to education.