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MineralMan

(146,307 posts)
Mon May 15, 2017, 02:34 PM May 2017

An Apologia for Trump?

It's interesting to read arguments from the right explaining Trump's positions, beliefs and proposals. It's sort of like reading textbooks from Apologia, the textbook publisher that has created textbooks and other materials on just about every educational topic, but with a "Christian, Bible-Based" perspective.

The logic is circular, the references predictable, but the explanations or "apologia" are simply and demonstrably false, particularly in the sciences. The poor kids who have only this material from which to learn are going to be horribly unprepared for a real world.

Are we heading for a government that is based on interpretations rather than truths? It sure looks that way.

Curious about Apologia? Here's a link to the website. Digging into it makes me wonder if DeVos is going to try to make this material the standard texts for U.S. Schools.

http://www.apologia.com/

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