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I’m not sure I understand why they’re getting rid of the department of education? Why not change it? Why get rid of it entirely.
If someone could ELI5 that shit, I’d be grateful.
I didn't see this in the other replies: they genuinely don't believe in government.
Yarvin, Thiel, Musk, Trump all believe the country is best run as a business. By which they mean they can fire you from the country and you have to leave if they don't like you. It also means that if you make a bad decision and destroy the country because you want to you should be allowed to. However they also believe that because they are rich and powerful it stands to reason, ipso facto, that they got there because they are good at their jobs, therefore it follows any decisions they make are good decisions and thus are the right ones. Those who disagree or would have made different decisions are wrong and bad at their jobs because they are not the president and the president is correct because he's the president.
once services are privatized, it is very difficult to make them public again. the damage is pretty much permanent
Basically this. They're all neofeudalists with a thin coat of "but it's business and not a divine mandate" on top. Thiel specifically has made no secrets of his desire to destroy federal power, and effectively just reimagine the country as a bunch of feudal city-states, loosely linked by something resembling a monarch (who isn't Thiel because he's actually terrified of being in the public eye for anything).
They also want to turn universities into PragerU types.
They want dumb, obedient people they can convince to give up their rights.
Over halfway there!
It all makes sense when you realize they have no intention to actually run the country in good faith. They intend to do two things, plunder everything they can, and irreparably destroy the country's future to get revenge for having the audacity to try to move forward.
Job #1 has always been to loot the treasury. It's a class war and they just scored a major victory.
This is why I don't even think Trump really cares all that much about immigrants, or trans persons, or abortion rights. All of it was campaign rhetoric to keep him out of jail, and otherwise they are all in the same basket of people he doesn't spend a second thinking about. The problem is that also means he also doesn't care about what the white supremacists and the evangelists in his party will do.
getting rid of it means they can redirect funds to private schools which indoctrinate kids into being conservatives
Also wage slaves don't need education that might make them strive for a life better than creating excess value for their owners.
Right. So it’s about breaking the public school system and ultimately replacing them with private institutions?
Okay. Yeesh.
Read Project 2025. They are doing this with every regulatory agency. And the ones that they actually do replace, will be filled with Trump sycophants instead of career experts in their respective fields.
Say goodbye to the EPA and the FDA.
Fucking goddammit. I guess people decided to wait until AFTER the election to inform themselves of the implications of one of the parties winning.
You fucking knob. You realize people who aren’t American are on here, right?
Grow up.
I said "people." Not everything is about you
Then why on the fuckin’ green earth would you write the words you did directly under my post?
🙄 You’re not retconning your way out of that, pal. Pot calling the kettle black here.
English can be a weird language sometimes. The royal "you," mannn
Not retconning anything.
I post comments with other readers in mind. I did mean you, but also everyone else.
Turns out I was wrong about you, but it is still targeted at others
Just like the constitution, states can add to, but not take away from federal department of education regulations. For example, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. Changing laws if difficult and no one wants to go on record voting against special needs. So they can just get rid of the department that enforces laws and say they are leaving up to the states.
As someone who lives in a red state and has a child with special needs, the IDEA law is the only reason my child gets any support in school. If they get rid of the department of education then states like Texas can reduce their special education services even further, so they can build more multi-million dollar high school football stadiums.
No one alive now really remembers what life was like for the disabled before civil rights laws passed. It was bad. Disabled people were hidden and locked away in tiny secret rooms their whole lives.
And that's if you were lucky and your Mom or Dad didn't just either give you up for adoption or leave you in the fields one night and wash their hands of you.
They don't want there to be a tool to undo what they've done. If there's no watchdog they can privatize education without worry that losing an election means a quick stop to what's happened. The very first court argument against a democrat run government in 2028 would be that only the Dept of Ed had the statutory power to stop them.
Because stupid masses voted him in. Stupid masses are easier to control.
Can't get an educated mind to work readily against their best interest....or to work down in a mine.