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  Which is why the Republicans are pulling out all the stops to curtail educating future generations. Florida is the model that all Red States will follow. Not only are they making sure that their children are ignorant and bigoted, they are actually interfering with adult education. The relatively few people that still manage to come out educated and sane, will flee the state and never return, while the knuckle draggers will make the state even Redder. Blue State taxes will continue to prop up their flailing economies, because Democrats  always bail them out.
context: Good article.
  Conservative economics did not attract the general public, who were mostly uneducated. So the Republicans made a deal with social conservatives angry about women and blacks wanting equality.
  In general this did not affect the Republicans, women and blacks did not have power so they were supporting the status quo. However now they had more votes and gained power.
  As people became more educated they still supported conservative economics but raised their children to be less racist and sexists. However the sexists and racist continued to be less educated. 
  The educated became more and more offended as the sexists and racists took over the Republican, found that the Democratic party also has a wing for conservative economics, and moved to the Democratic party.
  The Democratic party, now being more educated, is better organized and skilled in diplomacy and compromise. They are able to pass legislation that Republicans are too disorganized and beholden to social conservatives to do.
  Thats why the ACA was passed by the Democrats. It is a conservative idea, but the Republicans are no longer the conservative party, and have not been for some time. They are a reactionary party with little education.
  The young people on here point to Sarah Palin as the down fall, but the down fall was when the Civil Rights bill passed. The Democrats lost a generation of voters, but those voters were the destruction of the Republican party. They were toxic, and should have been isolated by both parties, but the Republicans, like a wife welcoming a husband whose own family warned ger against him, have now become so abused they are afraid of kicking him out for fear of losing what little they have.