Just need to vent...

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4. I keep thinking back to that quote from Thomas Jefferson:

"An insightful and informed citizenry is the archenemy of tyranny." The last thing the GOP wants is that insightful and informed (and educated) citizenry to oppose the tyranny they have in mind. That is why they are taking bludgeons to public education and trying to privatize it so the privateers can loot it for the profits and dump the carcass onto the taxpayers. I may be wrong, but I firmly believe that that is their intention. Uneducated peons make for better, more docile slaves, dependent on the corporate masters for survival, and thus less likely to upset the existing order. Makes for more profit for those masters.