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TygrBright

(20,733 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 11:13 AM Feb 2020

It'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

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It's all "the economy, stupid!" until it becomes "the democracy, stupid!" (Original Post) TygrBright Feb 2020 OP
Things are getting pretty dystopian, for sure...nt Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #1
After the primary, I'm changing my bumper sticker to that! Squinch Feb 2020 #2
I love that slogan! renate Feb 2020 #3
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