You’re giving them too much credit, I’d say. It’s hard to tell if this is 5d chess towards a conservative wet dream or just the usual christofascist nonsense. It sounds a lot like abstinence-only education, which has been a failing strategy from the Right forever.
You’re not giving them anywhere near enough credit if you think a super simple strategy of pandering to the uninformed bundled with restricting education is somehow “5D chess”.
Don’t be fooled by all the mouth breathers they trot out to preach their dogma, they’re the rodeo clowns designed to distract you from the matador stabbing us with spears.
I won’t say it’s all cohesive, or that within their ranks there isn’t dissection and in-fighting… but anti-education and pro-righteousness is the baseline that they all follow.
The stated goal of abstinence-only education is that young people don’t have sex until marriage. It fails at that. The (un)stated goal of the christofascists is probably keeping the future labor pool large so wages stay low, but it is at odds with the social goal.
Boeing enters the chat. I’m aware its not a 1-to-1 analogy, but union busting, deregulation, and generally just shitting on education so voters vote against their own self interest I would guess has caused planes to fall out of the sky…
Except in the former they get more poor uninformed voters, and the latter planes fall out of the sky.
You’re giving them too much credit, I’d say. It’s hard to tell if this is 5d chess towards a conservative wet dream or just the usual christofascist nonsense. It sounds a lot like abstinence-only education, which has been a failing strategy from the Right forever.
You’re not giving them anywhere near enough credit if you think a super simple strategy of pandering to the uninformed bundled with restricting education is somehow “5D chess”.
Don’t be fooled by all the mouth breathers they trot out to preach their dogma, they’re the rodeo clowns designed to distract you from the matador stabbing us with spears.
I won’t say it’s all cohesive, or that within their ranks there isn’t dissection and in-fighting… but anti-education and pro-righteousness is the baseline that they all follow.
Again, if it results in more poor kids with poor education and few prospects, that’s not a failing strategy.
Perhaps not for the platform, but for humanity, it is an absolute failure.
Oh, of course, but that’s the case for pretty much all conservative policy
What’s the difference?
If their goal is as Zorque just described – and it is, by the way – then it’s been a great success forever.
The stated goal of abstinence-only education is that young people don’t have sex until marriage. It fails at that. The (un)stated goal of the christofascists is probably keeping the future labor pool large so wages stay low, but it is at odds with the social goal.
Boeing enters the chat. I’m aware its not a 1-to-1 analogy, but union busting, deregulation, and generally just shitting on education so voters vote against their own self interest I would guess has caused planes to fall out of the sky…