Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

So is he going to cut funding for schools that chant the pledge and salute the flag every day - patriotism made political? For schools that promote one particular religious ideology- of course not, that is totally acceptable. Given that the vast majority of people do not understand the meaning of the words/phrases 'critical race theory' 'gender' 'marxist' 'communist' 'social' and 'socialist', what an immigrant is, legal or illegal, etc, how can there be reasonable discussion about any of these things?

Trump has pretty much succeeded, even while he is not President, in sowing and cultivating division, hatred, suspicion and total belief in 'me, and my rights' at the expense of everything worth having in a society. Just think what he would be able to do if he were re-elected. I don't think he will be re-elected, but it is depressing that so many people in America, the buzz-word-parrotting cult of Maga, actively want the place to be the next North Korea or Afghanistan.

So let me get this straight: you want to end the department of education but you still want money from eg. California and other creditor states to subsidize your education in eg. Pennsylvania through federal taxdollars into for-profit private schools with almost zero accountability how that money (tax dollars) gets spent. In other words, you want more money to throw around as you please, so you don't have any actual problem with throwing money at the problem. Do I have that right?

Your understanding of what blackmail is is more than a little screwy.

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 The Department of Education sets it’s own goals and basically uses blackmail, in the form of funding to ensure states fall in line with their dictates. They laughably lead us to believe their funds merely are a means of supporting the states. But what they actually do is use the money to force state and local education programs to fall in line with what the federal government believes is the national interest and dictates to the states by targeting where and how those funds are utilized.

It's funny how you call it blackmail when someone else does it to eg. make sure students in every state know how to do basic **** like math and science, but when Trump's Dept of Education wants to do it (for culture war nonsense), you describe it as 'a pretty good thing'

It is the fallacy of composition.

If you tracked children who have ever flown 1st class… they would also be more likely to attend college.

It doesn't mean if we fly a kid from an underfunded public school 1st class, it'll boost their college chances.

Most colleges that dropped SAT requirements for Covid-19 have since resumed requiring them. It had nothing to do with the scores being indeterminate of academic success it had to do with SAT testing being untenable during a pandemic…

“The phrase has troubled liberals who think it is a call for a return to an America before civil rights, gay rights, and women’s rights”

I mean… you believe him? LOL

"Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few." - Mark Robinson

“If you are [LGBTQ+], find a corner outside somewhere to go [use the bathroom]. We're not tearing society down because of this.” - Mark Robinson

So now we are relying on a failed POTUS candidate to tell what another POTUS candidate actually means?

No-one, including Trump himself, has ever been able to say when America was last great and therefore what time period they want to return America back to.

So rather than RFK or whomever, when do you think America was last great and what do you think needs to change in order to return America to its former glory?

His description of MAGA sounds like it's trying to evoke a feeling of joy with no substance.