Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the two GOP presidential frontrunners, have both promised a crackdown on colleges should they occupy the White House — a stark reflection of the right’s growing skepticism of higher education.
Some Republican complaints about colleges are related to broader concern about “wokeness” and free speech. But others hint at deeper questions about the value of college, and how to ensure a degree comes with an appropriate economic return.
Not just Higher Education. Republicans are at war with gradeschool education as well. They know full well that ignorant people are more easily manipulated.
They want dumb uninformed slave labor.
The shortsightedness is mind blowing. What happens in a generation when the US can’t produce enough scientists and engineers? We have to bring in smart people from other countries. And they won’t like that either. It’s astonishing.
Because THE SENATOR’S kids will be the engineers and scientists. They have the money to be sent to very nice upscale private schools where they learn all that stuff. You, in the other hand, do not, nor do you need all that fancy learning about physics and chemistry and history. All you need to know is how to DO YOUR JOB.
Basically, large parts of the GOP are actually trying to reinvent the aristocracy.