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Alcohol is a depressant and kills brain cells. When combined with "gun sex" these consequences alone may explain the numbness and dumbness of many in the R Party. However, the failure to embrace and expand a Liberal Arts educational experience to all Americans at an affordable price, including paying teachers and professors with salaries commensurate with their educational attainment and societal contribution has also negatively impacted the idea of a skeptical and informed citizenry. Along with undermining unions and living wage jobs these reactionary "remedies" also began in earnest with Reagan:

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/788002965

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Well the newly ultra MAGA owner of Twitter just tweeted that progressive professors are the root of all evil. The war on “woke” learning (also called social studies/ liberal arts) is real. It’s a very different world when teachers helping students to expand their world view are considered the enemy. In many totalitarian regimes, professors are some of the first to be rounded up. Moreover, who gets to define progressive? It’s definitely a scary time for education. Like with the medical world & journalism, there are powerful forces who are dead set on erasing a liberal or progressive point of view.

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God forbid a citizen might be suspect about a single Trump lie, let alone 30k of them.

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Not to be forgotten, the "eternal" stereotype of higher education being associated with conniving, devious, dangerous Jews.

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Exactly. And now “radical” Black, Queer, feminist studies are the new root of all evil. Why? because they piss off conservative white people when they see their kids eyes & hearts open to the struggles of oppressed groups & start to understand that solidarity is actually a useful value. Conservatives do not want to grow & they do not want to be held to account, in any way, for the continued oppression of marginalized groups.

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there may be only One race

but to 'conservatives'

the Human Race

ain't it.

.

let us Hope

the Progenies of

Regressives and Repressives

REBEL and remove those Shackles

of Dominionism Patriarchy and Racism

keeping humanity from reaching its Zenith

.

which

Hopefully

is NOT Warfare.

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no two ways about it

good Elites gotta be

Fascist elites then

they get a Pass.

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Good point. Trump doesn’t drink. He’s just nuts.

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