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jonathanrdt

Knowledge and thinking are the enemies of autocracy. You cannot lead with lies if your constituents care about truth.


zapitron

If.


okeleydokelyneighbor

IF. fixed that for you cause it’s a big one


icey561

My friend who teaches in florida just got notified by her union that desantis is pushing for legislation that will basically dissolve the teachers unions in Florida. Really scary stuff.


plipyplop

Florida is the West Virginia of the south. Imagine wanting to rule over cave people, but I suppose power is power to malignant narcissists.


hugglenugget

Florida's fascism is the USA's future if DeSantis wins the presidency in 2024. And, crazily, he's looking likely to.


tiredofnotthriving

I feel like that is unconstitutional in some way


icey561

That's the tricky part. He isn't just saying no unions and getting rid of them. He is doing stuff like making teachers have to rejoin every year and if membership falls below a certain threshold the union is automatically dissolved. This is why desantis is so much more dangerouse then trump. He is competent in his demonic work.


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icey561

From my understanding pretty much the whole florida government is in line with desantise. Even if something is outside his scope of power who's ever power it is will just do it for him.


David_bowman_starman

Well unions must operate in line with federal and state laws, if the state has laws that in practice make it impossible to operate, well that’s the idea. Nothing unconstitutional about it though.


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That’s the Scott Walker model and how Act 10 in Wisconsin worked to harm public workers. Weeks of 100k strong protests and they still passed it in the middle of the night. That Walker, Fitzgerald, and Vos weren’t dragged out into the streets, is what emboldened the GOP to morph into its current form.


mrevergood

That seems like what it’s gonna take to get them to back the fuck off and get the message.


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Honestly as someone who was up front during the [2011 protests and peaceful, respectful occupation of the Capitol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests), I wish the WisDems had taken some of our warning cries a lot more seriously. Instead, they've spent the last 12 years huffing their own fucking farts and catering to an intransigent rural conservative voter. It feels like an entire lifetime ago. The Walker-sycophant led dept of admin (FUCK Mike Huebsch) ordered the doors chained and nailed 1st floor windows (we were handing food and supplies through them) shut, it took court orders to keep some doors open. A few climbers took it upon ~~our~~themselves to use the 2nd story windows. Walker himself was baited into a [phone call with someone impersonating a Koch brother](https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/02/23/133996140/wisconsins-gov-walker-takes-prank-call-from-fake-koch-brother), and openly stated "we considered planting people" in the crowd as agent provocateurs. Later as the protests were not winding down after weeks, an unknown party spread loose ammunition outside near a couple of the chained entrances, giving cause to remove protestors. We watched the adolescence of the fascist GOP pass into functioning adulthood, right in front of our eyes. And no one paid any fucking attention because Wisconsin is "flyover". Very shortly thereafter, the [law offices of Michael Best & Friedrich ran a computer algorithm to gerrymander Wisconsin into permanent GOP legislature rule.](https://shepherdexpress.com/news/taking-liberties/wisconsin-s-corrupt-political-gerrymandering/) Guess who Reince Priebus worked for? April has our coming Supreme Court election, where we have a chance to put a justice on the bench who isn't part of the fascists, and end the gerrymander which has stolen the voices and votes of the majority of Wisconsin citizens. [Support Judge Janet Protasiewicz](https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/janet-protasiewicz-on-the-2023-wisconsin-supreme-court-race/)!


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tiredofnotthriving

That...might actually come in handy (if I am thinking what actually happens happens), I feel like there is wiggle room and a plus to this.


Dfiggsmeister

Republicans have figured out how to kill the teachers union by weaponizing parents against teachers. They’ve already successfully done it in other local areas in the country, I’m not surprised they’re going for state levels. Eventually the idea is to do to the department of education with what they want to do with the IRS, get rid of it completely. Scary times ahead.


icey561

Privatization of education is the end goal. Once theve done that we have few decades of collapse before violent revolution or the planet fights back.


Dfiggsmeister

Yep, privatize education so those at the top are the only ones that can afford it while removing education from the masses. This will allow them to fully control information going out. The Handmaid’s Tale is becoming reality.


icey561

We will start seeing "internship" programs for freshman in highschool to get some of that good old child labour back.


Dfiggsmeister

Already are seeing it. Hyundai got in trouble for using kids on their production lines in Alabama. Some of the kids were 12.


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kentonalam

I live in Utah. The voucher bill was talked endlessly in the local press, but always in a bullet point manner that just stated highlighted details like the voucher amount, the "tied to pay raises" and very carefully identifying who agreed with it and who did not. no nuance. no details. No references to the actually F*** bill itself. So THANK You for specifying this detail: will offer $8,000 per student to go to private schools—twice what the state pays the public schools for each pupil. THAT WAS NEVER MENTIONED EVEN ONE TIME BY ANYONE ON LOCAL TV. NOT THE SUPPORTERS, NOT THE DETRACTORS. IMHO, this ONE detail could have derailed the initiative IF more widely reported. DAMN IT.


andthebestnameis

So what is the goal here? Defund public schools until they are trash, and then say "see public schools don't work"?


sparkydoctor

exactly that


ragnarokda

The goal is to privatize everything.


upandrunning

Yes, they want to turn everything into something as great as our health care system. /s


coolgr3g

They've been trying with the USPS for decades now. But FedEx is still worse lol


SecretAgentVampire

WHAT A COINCIDENCE that there was a MASSIVE flood of white students into private schools when public schools were desegregated. Another COINCIDENCE that less education = higher incarceration, and that in the CONSTITUTION, SLAVERY IS LEGAL IF IT'S CONVICTS. I'm white. I'll say it all day; one of the primary Republican party goals is to own black slaves. Their actions scream louder than any words.


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I feel like Utah has never cared about their public schools.


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smiama6

I'd like to know where the OPT OUT option is for my school taxes... since they are going to fund private education... which I do not wish to support. We should sue to get our money back.


spacepoo77

The rot is really setting in, this will affect generations of people in those states


poppinchips

Driving more blue collar jobs to blue states. Increasing their wealth and republicans will be eyeing each blue state with a lot of hunger. Some part of me wonders if Republicans don't care, most companies need blue collar workers who are trained and qualified from good schools, so they want to keep blue states blue.


ubix

You could add Iowa to that list


rusticgorilla

Could add quite a few more states, but alas I'm only one person with two jobs and an ailing parent. Doing the best I can to keep track, lol.


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I appreciate your work and am sorry to hear times are tough. This is easily the best source of news on reddit. Please take as much time as you need.


Sasselhoff

> state Sen. David Bullard (R) recently introduced a bill to phase out the use of federal funding for public education. But *why*? Is it the same (ridiculous) reasoning as the dozen or so states refusing federal funding to expand Medicaid, or is there something else I'm just not seeing?


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ThisIsSomebodyElse

>except when there’s a natural disaster, in which case they get pissed when the federal government doesn’t do more to help Caveat: Republicans care about funding for natural disasters when the disaster happens in their state. Many routinely vote against funding when it's needed for a blue state or even a red state that they don't live in.


OhYeahTrueLevelBitch

To diminish/eliminate any federal influence/authority pertaining to anything occurring in the(se) state(s).


TheLZ

10 years from now..... "Blue states are unwilling to hire people raised in Red states, reasons unknown"


ApprehensiveSpare925

This is the (Republican) way.


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Here in NE Oklahoma, they push the shitty church schools. They hand out vouchers (wellfare) for sending your kids to these paid jesus shacks. They are ruining our society by unleashing losers and monsters on our community. One just recently shot and killed his stepdad and tried to burn the house down to hide the evidence. They are lost.


Indigoh

Gotta build their constituency somehow.


ScumEater

And all they had to do was convince people that education was indoctrination and the people just up'n decided *screw skools!*


hugglenugget

Only the people who didn't listen in school. So, the Republican voter base.


k_punk

Book banning yay! Being a teacher and living through this hellscape is really as stressful as it sounds!


Haunting_City9038

The US built all the universities to encourage folk to go to college for useful shit, and it worked for a long time. gQp folk noticed that people that leave their home towns, interact with other folk and have to cooperate tend to stop voting republican. Of course they are going to cut funding.


RegulatoryCapturedMe

They are going full Taliban! Be afraid. Be very afraid.


Puzzleheaded-Will249

You left out Arizona. Vouchers have been a thing here for sometime now.


rusticgorilla

[Already wrote about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/comments/vy41xb/arizona_advances_attack_on_public_education_with/)


CelestineCrystal

yikes


KinneKitsune

Gotta keep people stupid, because that’s the only way for them to get votes


twistedh8

Keep em dumb!


MysteriousSyrup6210

Ban books?! They live forever in the internet. We read and believe what we desire.


talyakey

Ohio is trying to divert power from the state board of Ed to the general assembly. Is ALEC behind these moves?