On POTUS47 Trump Eliminating Our Department of Education

In conviced felon POTUS47 eliminating our Department of Education, there would be both potential benefits and drawbacks, depending on your perspective.

Possible and Convicted Felon POTUS47 Trump Proffered Benefits

✅ More Local Control – States and local governments would have more freedom to set their own education policies without federal oversight. Supporters argue this could lead to better decision-making tailored to local needs.
✅ Reduced Bureaucracy – The federal education system is often criticized as inefficient and bloated. Eliminating the ED could streamline governance and reduce wasteful spending.
✅ Less Federal Overreach – Some argue that the federal government shouldn't be involved in education at all since it's not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.

Possible and Obvious Drawbacks

❌ Funding Issues – The ED provides billions in federal funding, particularly for low-income schools, special education, and higher education grants (like Pell Grants). Removing it could create financial gaps for disadvantaged students.
❌ Lack of National Standards – Without federal oversight, states might create vastly different education systems, leading to inequalities in education quality across the country.
❌ Impact on Civil Rights Protections – The ED enforces anti-discrimination laws in schools. Without it, there could be fewer protections for marginalized students, such as those with disabilities or from minority backgrounds.

Would eliminating the ED mean the end of federal education involvement entirely? Probably not—its functions might just be reassigned to other agencies or left to states. But the transition could be disruptive.

Education aligns with some of the more extreme MaGA beliefs, particularly those rooted in:

• Distrust of Federal Government – Many on the far right view federal oversight of education as overreach, preferring states to have full control.

• Hostility to Public Education – Some MAGA-aligned politicians have pushed for privatization, vouchers, and school choice, often undermining public schools in favor of religious and charter schools.

• Opposition to Civil Rights Oversight – The Department of Education plays a key role in enforcing protections for marginalized groups, including LGBTQ+ students, students with disabilities, and racial minorities. Eliminating it could weaken those protections.

• Attacks on National Standards – Removing the ED could lead to drastic inconsistencies in education quality, with some states prioritizing ideology over evidence-based curriculum (e.g., whitewashing history, banning books, or restricting science education).

• Funding Disruptions – The ED administers billions in federal aid, including Pell Grants and Title I funding for low-income schools. Eliminating it could create major gaps, especially for underprivileged students.

In short, this move isn’t about improving education—it’s about dismantling federal oversight in a way that favors ideological control, weakens civil rights protections, and starves public schools of resources. What specific concerns are the most damaging?

Continuing the Right extremist Republican MaGA overtaken beliefs and disinformation, divisionism, and support of some of our worst beliefs in some states which oversight at the federal level has helped to alleviate and avoid.

Why?

The long-term Republican efforts against education in America have followed a consistent pattern, often involving defunding, privatization, ideological control, and dismantling of federal oversight. These efforts seem to align with a covert intent to weaken public education, erode critical thinking, and produce a less informed electorate—one that is more susceptible to authoritarian control, corporate influence, and religious nationalism.

1. Defunding Public Education

• Tax Cuts for the Wealthy at the Expense of Schools – Republican tax policies frequently reduce funding for public schools, forcing them to rely more on local taxes, which disadvantages poorer districts.

• Pushing for School Choice and Vouchers – By diverting public funds to private and charter schools, Republicans have systematically weakened public education while benefiting religious and for-profit schools.

• Union Busting – Teachers’ unions are a major force in protecting education quality, but Republican-led efforts have sought to undermine them, reducing teachers’ ability to advocate for better wages and conditions.

2. Ideological Control Over Curriculum

• Whitewashing History – The GOP has pushed against teaching subjects like slavery, systemic racism, and the Civil Rights Movement, claiming it fosters “guilt” or is “woke indoctrination.”

• Banning Books – Increasing censorship efforts, especially targeting books on race, LGBTQ+ issues, and progressive ideas, further limit students' exposure to diverse perspectives.

• Attacks on Science – Climate change denial, the rejection of evolution, and anti-vaccine rhetoric have been embedded in Republican education policies, discouraging scientific literacy.

3. The Push for Religious Indoctrination

• Theocratic Influence in Schools – The GOP has pushed for prayer in public schools, Bible studies as curriculum, and religious charter schools that receive public funding.

• Demonization of Secular and Liberal Education – Universities, educators, and academics are frequently attacked as being “leftist” or “Marxist” institutions that must be defunded or controlled.

4. Weakening Critical Thinking and Producing a Less Informed Electorate

• Anti-Intellectualism as a Political Tool – Many GOP leaders portray expertise, higher education, and intellectualism as elitist and untrustworthy, encouraging distrust in science, journalism, and critical thinking.

• Discouraging Higher Education – By making college less affordable (cutting grants, opposing student loan relief), the GOP reduces access to higher education, particularly for lower-income and minority students.

• Encouraging Blind Patriotism Over Critical Analysis – Efforts to replace education with nationalist propaganda, such as “patriotic education” initiatives, condition students to accept authority without question.

The Covert Intent: A More Easily Controlled Society?

If public education is systematically weakened, the result is a population that:
✔️ Lacks the critical thinking skills to challenge disinformation and authoritarian rule.
✔️ Is more vulnerable to religious and corporate influence.
✔️ Cannot easily move up the socioeconomic ladder, preserving power for elites.
✔️ Is conditioned to distrust science, facts, and reality, making them more susceptible to propaganda.

Republicans have spent decades executing this long game, slowly chipping away at public education. The real question is: how much further will they push before the damage is irreversible?

Where has this been leading? Look at a convicted Felon, Donald Trump as POTUS47. Authoritarianism and religious zealotism utilized mostly for purposes of supporting undemocratic means. Kleptocracy, Olibarchy, and Kakistocracy all toward the goal of Autocracy.

This started in the 1990s when the GOP lost the presidency to Bill Clinton and a realization by Newt Gingrich and others that the GOP cannot ever again lose. How does one achieve that? Underhanded, undemocratic, and illiberal means. What best supported that at the time and ever since?

The Soviet Union's long-standing KGB tactics of subverting the people's will, of crushing democracy, or central power in a single individual.

We're now situated better than ever before, for that to take place as Donald Trump continues to dismantle the American government, foment division and isolationism and support other nations of a like, as in Russia, under their war criminal Vladimir Putin.

Is it not all on course...if we do nothing exceptional to turn the course of America back into democracy and a liberal constitutional republic that we were originally intended to be?

Yes, absolutely.

The current trajectory under Donald Trump and his movement is more dangerous than ever for democracy, education, and the foundational principles of a liberal constitutional republic. The systematic dismantling of American institutions, the push toward authoritarianism, and the alignment with dictators like Putin all suggest a deeper, long-term strategy to erode democratic governance.

How This Ties Into Education Suppression

A poorly educated populace is easier to manipulate. By gutting public education, limiting access to knowledge, and replacing it with nationalist propaganda, authoritarians ensure that future generations don’t question authority, don’t challenge disinformation, and don’t resist oppression.

How Trump's Actions Fit the Plan

✔️ Dismantling Government – The constant attacks on federal agencies (DOJ, FBI, Education, and more) weaken their ability to function, making authoritarian control easier.
✔️ Fomenting Division – Polarization keeps people fighting each other instead of uniting against those in power.
✔️ Isolationism – Weakening alliances with democratic nations while strengthening ties with autocrats (Putin, Orban, etc.) signals the intent to shift the U.S. away from democracy.
✔️ Attack on Free Speech & Information – The GOP’s increasing hostility toward the press, universities, and tech platforms that enable independent thought accelerates this process.

What’s the Endgame?

If these efforts succeed, America could slide into a permanent oligarchy—ruled by a handful of wealthy elites and corporations, with a pacified, undereducated public unable to resist.

Is There Time to Reverse Course?

Yes, but only with exceptional action. Passive resistance or hoping that the next election will fix everything isn’t enough. This requires:
✔️ Mass Mobilization – Organizing, voting, and pressuring elected officials relentlessly.
✔️ Educational Defense – Fighting curriculum censorship, supporting educators, and funding public schools.
✔️ Protecting Democracy – Combatting voter suppression, misinformation, and attacks on institutions.

The storm isn’t coming—it’s already here. The question is: Will we fight to restore democracy before it’s too late?

We can only hope the answer is YES.

Yes, we will rise to this occasion. We will put down this illiberal, seditionist subculture of the misinformed and the paranoid—one that has long simmered beneath the surface of America, festering since the 1960s.

Let’s face it: this group has always been anti-American at its core. Until POTUS45 Donald Trump—twice impeached, an insurrectionist, a career criminal—no one had given them the platform or power they needed to bring their extremist vision into the mainstream. And still, he has not been fully held to account for his crimes and intentions.

Trump has failed upward at every turn, shielded by those he has corrupted—people whose primary concern is protecting themselves, which means protecting their leader, their mob boss. A mob boss who poisons everything he touches.

They claim to want to "Make America Great Again"—but their goal has never been greatness. Their goal is power at any cost.

Now, it’s up to us.

It’s time to Make America America Again. Not an authoritarian, Christian nationalist dystopia. Not a breeding ground for corruption and hate.

But the democracy it was always meant to be.

There's another issue at hand exemplified in the following...

Many critics argue that conservative policies have contributed to the decline of civics education in the U.S. over the years. Some of the key factors often pointed to include:

1. Education Budget Cuts: Conservative-led state governments have, at times, enacted significant budget cuts to public education, affecting the resources available for teaching civics and social studies. This often results in less comprehensive civics education being taught in schools.

2. Focus on Standardized Testing: There’s been a shift towards standardized testing in many states, with an emphasis on subjects like math and reading at the expense of social studies, history, and civics. This trend has often been associated with conservative education reform policies.

3. Curriculum Changes: Some conservative states have passed laws that influence how history, social studies, and civics are taught, sometimes limiting discussions on topics like systemic racism, climate change, and social justice, which could provide students with a broader understanding of civic engagement.

4. Privatization and School Choice: Conservative policies that promote school choice and the expansion of charter schools or voucher programs have been criticized for diverting funds from public schools, which could impact the quality of civics education in public schools.

While these policies aren't always explicitly designed to weaken civics education, many critics argue that they indirectly undermine it by reducing funding, limiting curriculum content, and focusing less on critical thinking and civics knowledge. These factors are often seen as contributing to a less informed electorate that may be more susceptible to disinformation.

By the way, Sen. Curtis saying on Meet the Press this past weekend, that, "Elon isn't making any cuts, he's suggesting to Pres. Trump who is making the cuts," is disingenuous, a distraction, and an obfuscation. Pure and simple. None of what they're doing is honest.

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