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Isn't this why the 2nd amendment was created, to prevent a tyrannical Govt.
Let's be honest, it's always been a smoke screen to justify personal gun ownership but when it comes to it no-one will have the balls to take on the Govt.
It's more that, as it turns out, guns can't protect you against Fox News and Facebook feeds.
If Biden were president in this exact situation, there would be some guns out.
Sorry to say this but if the population is so easily brainwashed then maybe they can't be trusted with gun ownership.
Why are they so brainwashed though? Because the government doesn't help with education? 🤷♂️ (Serious question.)
Public education in the US is a system of propaganda-loaded indoctrination designed to stifle critical thinking.
I like how someone downvoted this when it is objectively true. Your comment butt hurt them right in the patriotism.
And churn out worker drones.
and cannon fodder for defense contractors, aka the MIC.
There you go. 😕
Because it is implemented state by state. The basics of the 3Rs are universal, and not state determined. The Federal government should be overseeing the public education curriculum, not the individual states. Those who whine about liberal indoctrination are just pissed because THEY wanted to be doing the indoctrinating.
In reality, schools aren't interested in liberal or conservative indoctrination, they want to teach Critical Thinking Skills. That should be a bipartisan position, but conservatives have come to despise Critical Thinking Skills because it turns out that CTS are the best defense to the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
Child of two public educators. I’m going to disagree to an extent. There are radical teachers. They push back against standards based education because they see how it pushes an agenda from the top, rather than cater needs to the local community and individual students. There’s a lot more of these teacher than you think, and they are honestly heroes. It is thankless, low paying, emotionally and physically draining work. Like I can understand the ways they kind of messed up raising me when I think about the hundreds, maybe thousands, of other kids lives they improved, and in some cases saved.
I hate the excuse "people are stupid."
That's both a truism and misleading. We've always had monkey brains. The issue is that humans are psycologically vulnerable to technologically enhanced attention-grabbing feeds; regulating that is on business and government, and it has little to do with the education system or gun laws.
Us liberals are too nice
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Sounds great on paper. We need to put it in practice