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holy shit they are trying to put Dolores Umbridge in charge of education.
It's the first step to Government Approved Thoughts.
But strangely not judges >

Or their own jobs. 
Edit: for those being naive I’m talking about term limits. >

Um...they are up for review every two to six years. They just aren't being fired by the people in charge--the voters. >

Gerrymandering enters the conversation >

The cure for Gerrymandering- all seats run as ‘at Large’ — yep >

That's close to a Proportional system, which would fix the problem. The system mostly stays as it is, with a new rule that means a party's proportion of seats must equal it's proportion of votes - so if a party wins 55% of the vote but only wins 50% of the seats, it can add 'at large' members (aka 'list members') until the proportion is correct. That is how most democracies operate. Usually parties only add one or two 'at large' or 'list' members, if any, since there is no motivation to Gerrymander to begin with. >

Whoa! You have too much faith in the American voters- they cannot understand that >

Well, a large chunk of the electorate really does not want to understand that. >

Hoo boy.  What could possibly go wrong here?  Texas science departments about to become vast wastelands of biological and environmental chaos. >

Universities going bankrupt because "only liberals send their kids to college, everyone else goes to trade school".
Seriously though, enrollment is going to drop because who tf would pay good money for our children to come out dumber than they were when they went in? Especially in the science and history areas of study. >


who tf would pay good money for our children to come out dumber than they were when they went in?

Have you seen the enrollment numbers at Liberty University? >

The main University is depressingly lucrative. But the soul-crushing depression sets in with their online 'university' numbers, which is a massive money pipeline selling useless/negative education through a real-estate grift masquerading as a church masquerading as a school. >


real-estate grift

What do you mean? How does this connect to their online programs? >

They buy or lease real estate for satellite campuses in other cities and sell them later on. Similar to how storage facility companies mainly make money via real estate >

Wow, I had no idea >

I mean lots of businesses are substantially real estate plays adjacent to their other businesses. One reason there's Banks on every corner. McDonald's corp is a real estate holdings company. Chain Hotels etc. >

I've wondered at the placement of a lot of chain establishments >

"The share of Republicans and independent-leaning Republicans who said higher education was having a negative effect on the country grew from 37% to 59% from 2015 to 2019 in Pew Research Center polling."
What happened in those four years, I wonder? >

I'd love to hear what that perceived negative effect is. There's an argument that too many jobs require degrees when they really shouldn't, but I suspect that's not the problem for them. >

Something, something vague complaints about liberal indoctrination >

w o a k >

Stopping people from telling the truth will not make things less true. You do this at your own peril, and hubris is a fickle, chaotic mistress. >


Stopping people from telling the truth will not make things less true.

Except it will. We've learned by now that truth is relative. Conservatives in the US have whipped up such a fury over Critical Race Theory that they've convinced half the country it's being taught in grade school. It isn't and never was. That truth simply didn't matter.
Donald Trump and those around him used violence and tried to overthrow a democratically elected president. In the old days, he and they would have been hung or shot. That's the truth. The other day, the speaker of the house THANKED HIM.
Truth doesn't matter. >

I'd swear to God if I believed in him that these idiots see the phrase "Critical Race Theory" and think it just means being critical of white people. Their lust for victimhood never fucking ends.