Repubs want to preserve education for the rich. Has little to nothing to do with culture war narratives. Repubs are making every effort to do away with what little public schools have left in social spending in this country, including having funds available for public education.
IN the old days there was education as well, before there were any public schools. And who got that education??? The rich, the elite. A governess got hired and would teach the children but only if you were rich. That is a tradition that goes back a long time. Then some areas in the world started public education. As I mentioned in another post Scotland started public education well before this country did. Scotland had the enlightenment before France did. All of sudden well educated folks started to come out of Scotland, Adam Scott, David Hume , etc.,
Soon European countries wanted to find out what was going on in Scotland. And when they did more people in Europe started to get educated instead of a tiny group of folks who were wealthy, elite, privileged, whatever.
It proved the poor and middle class are smart also. So years later there were a wider group of people who ended up being scholars and geniuses. It also gave more people opportunities that they other wise wouldnt have.
It was Adam Smith that created and initiated the concept of Capitalism.
So know we have right wing believers who want to go back to the medieval system. Saying " No, No, we will give you food stamps, housing allowance, limited healthcare, etc.," Do you think the folks who are commentators of Faux News are worried, concerned about private education for their kids???? Not a single one is concerned.
Yet they pretend to be populists and understand the economic anxieties of Americans. Many of whom, by the way are dealing with $1.7T in student loan debt for higher education. Imagine what that number would be if all Grade school, Junior High and HS were privatized. Repubs have a WIN WIN situation because they are shoveling $$$$ to private corporations who run private schools and as we know they are all republican donors. So the rich get richer. The 2nd win is when repubs say "we cant stand by and watch the public school system get destroyed". It makes it easier for them to control an uneducated public.
The number one rule made by Slave masters at the time of slavery in this country was to never educate the slaves. To people in the upper class education is the most dangerous tool there is because it is a way to stimulate minds then people will start to think. They want to keep people down so they cant compete with their kids.
This spells infinite greed initiated by Repubs. Full on Totalitarianism. Yet we always hear repubs say "Liberals are Marxists, Communists. They want to eliminate the middle class which the end result will be the poor depending on Democrats." Its Repubs following the Marxist playbook.
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