Sometimes I fear it's hopeless.

[Tommy Carcetti]

Just had an exchange on Facebook where the other person insisted we needed to “get government out of public schools.”

I kid you not.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I'd ask the person....what corp/religious org do you want underwriting your kid's education?

Maybe Peabody Coal? Or the 1st Holier than Christ Church?

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. That is actually funny. They walk

amongst us.

[Silent3]

5. Only funny in the gallows humor sense

This idiocy is endangering our democracy. This idiocy killed hundreds of thousands of people who didn't have to die from COVID. This idiocy is putting women's lives at risk who need abortion services.

I never had a great opinion of the wisdom of the American people, or humanity in general. Once Trump came along, I discovered my previous dim view wasn't dim enough.

[dwayneb]

9. Dead on

Trump isn't the root cause of our problem. Sooner or later someone would have emerged from the right-wing slime mold with similar populist "talents". The real problem is the fact that many Americans are not bright enough to govern themselves, and are ready, willing and able to be taken in by simple minded propaganda. All it takes is enough of these idiots living in the right states to use our antiquated Electoral College system to elect their King.

[B.See]

3. That's just MAGA speak for taxpayers funded vouchers for private schools. Nt

[Think. Again.]

4. I'm beginning to wonder when...

...all my dearest friends are gonna pop out from behind everything, laughing, patting me on the back, and saying things like "we really had you going, huh?!?"

[Fudster]

11. exactly

I wish this would happen too. 4 out of five of my best friends are brainwashed,

[magicarpet]

6. Our public schools should be run by,..

... the Orthodox House of Prayer & Khrushtun Buy-bull School.

[leftieNanner]

7. Yeah!

And tell that damned gov'mint to stay away from my social security and Medicare.

[Mr.Bill]

12. My favorite one (actually heard)

is "No way am I giving the government my Social Security number."

[Demobrat]

19. Ding. Ding. Ding. You win.

That’s even worse than
Keep your government out of my Medicare.

Damn.

[Skittles]

8. that's like "government hands off my Medicare"

fucking morons

[Prairie_Seagull]

10. It's not that we lost the plot.

We have made it into trilogy.

[lonely bird]

13. Bird's Theorem writ large

“‘We The People’ are stupid.”

Not always stupid, not about everything but enough of the time and about enough things.

We have been conditioned over time with theomythology about the country.

This has gone on for over 200 years.

[AverageOldGuy]

14. My favorite . . .

Back in 2009-2016 there were two active Tea Parties in my area of rural Virginia. Membership was all old white-haired folks.

During the debates over Affordable Care Act — one of their joint meetings had a picture in the local paper —- bunch of old white haired (white) people holding up signs reading “Keep government out of my health care.” Every damn one of them was on Medicare!!!

[Warpy]

15. "I just had an exchange on Facebook"

There's your problem.

[live love laugh]

16. Another reason why I am no longer on FB: stupid people.

[3Hotdogs]

17. There was a post on D.U. -- maybe 10 years ago.

A pre-maggot (they were called patriots then), she wanted to get the gub'mint out of her Medicare.

[PatrickforB]

18. That's right up there with that Tea Party sign that said 'get your government hands off my Social Security'

The level of ignorance is pretty bad and it is all due to the Wall Street takeover of the republic that begun with Lewis Powell laying out the plan in his 1971 manifesto to the US Chamber of Commerce. Then Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 and the downward slope became very slippery.

Now we have Americans who cannot pick the USA out on a map.

[NBachers]

20. The maggots want all the advantages and benefits of civilization without the expenses and commitments.

[Septua]

23. That's accurate but I will expand a bit.

They won't admit just what it is they want.

They say they want less government but every time something goes wrong, they will want to know why the "government" dropped the ball and didn't plan for the problem before it happened.

When the Cat 4 or 5 hurricanes hit, they expect the "government" to come to the rescue.

The one point that really pisses me off is the "freedom" thing. They want more freedom. Freedom from mandatory vaccines or freedom to work in a pandemic freedom to buy an AR15 or freedom to pass voter suppression laws or freedom to deny abortions.

In that respect, what they want is control over which activities they deem a "freedom".

Needless to say, the population as a whole, has less freedoms than it had before MAGA came along.

What they won't admit to wanting, is covered in this link:

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4330735-trump-maga-and-the-insidious-underbelly-of-white-supremacy-in-america/

Trump, MAGA and the insidious underbelly of white supremacy in America

Psychologists are at the forefront of studying bias and discrimination in various forms; we have long known that people are not necessarily “rational” beings but “rationalizing” ones. Many voters acknowledge Trump’s immoral and unethical nature, but when asked why they back him, they rationalize their actions as support of conservative judges, anti-abortion legislation, overturning unfair trade agreements, tax benefits, or protecting the Second Amendment.

The MAGA slogan conceals a call to return to former days of clearly defined white power and privilege, when women were homemakers instead of in the workforce, when marriage was between a man and a woman, and when homosexuality and other “queer” lifestyles were considered sinful and a mental disorder.

[AZ8theist]

21. This is one reason I stopped using Fascist Book decades ago...

Like Xshitter, it is a cesspool of stupidity.

[mzmolly]

22. The word 'public' eludes them it seems?

[calimary]

24. Ahhh, the anarchy crowd is making noise again.

[H2O Man]

25. Recommended.

Either I actually met the other person ....... or there were dozens of people that ignorant that approached me when I served on the school board. A couple continued to after I was no longer on the BOE, for reasons known only to them.

[walkingman]

26. There are lots of Texans that want taxpayer funded church schools. They like to call it choice.

[Doodley]

27. Then why are Republicans telling schools what books they cannot have and what they cannot teach?

[Rincewind]

28. Tell them

we need to get churches out of religion.

[LeftInTX]

29. In my paper...

Garcia: 2024 Biden is looking a lot like 1968 Humphrey

2024 Joe Biden is 1968 Hubert Humphrey.

Like Humphrey in 1968, Biden is running for president at a time of unrest on college campuses.

Like Humphrey in 1968, he will be the default nominee of his party, a figure who elicits little enthusiasm and feels out of sync with the political moment.

Like Humphrey in 1968, his record of progressive achievement means little to young leftists, who see him as an enabler of foreign atrocities.

https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/article/joe-biden-hubert-humphrey-19438594.php


This columnist is not RW. He was the keynote speaker at our local Democratic gala.

[Jedi Guy]

30. To quote Professor Hubert Farnsworth...

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

It already feels like we're living in the prologue of a really shitty dystopian cyberpunk novel.