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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's all "the economy, stupid!" until it becomes "the democracy, stupid!"
Marching over the cliff to tyranny in the wake of "great jobs numbers!" and "record stock markets!" may be a painful, costly lesson our nation is about to learn.
White Americans set ourselves up for this by cheap-assing on public education after "Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka" all those years ago when our horror at the very idea of our children sharing a classroom with BROWN kids overwhelmed our common sense.
First they came for the Civics classes... then critical thinking went by the wayside... then public education deterioration got turbocharged in the wake of male Americans realizing that those uppity women were grabbing for control of their own bodies, and science classes had to be kicked to the curb to make it possible to teach lies in "health" class... then they came for the history textbooks...
...and here we are, people.
But, hey, the stock market looks GREAT!
Shut up and eat your mystery meat nuggets fast, you'll be late for the shift you just got pinged to do at your third job. Better go before you go, too, if you know what I mean.
And look GRATEFUL, dammit. If you get uppity we'll decide you're an unfit parent and your kid will head off to the camps, too.
sadly,
Bright
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)Squinch
(50,773 posts)Right now it's "Any Democrat 2020"
renate
(13,776 posts)The original worked before... lets try your version!