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Propaganda mostly from the Republican party has convinced a great deal of people that Education is a waste of money. This is obviously stupid and false. Apologies for getting political, but I come from a family of teachers in two red states (actually three now, thanks Wisconsin, you do love to hate yourself), and we're out of fucks to give. EDIT: I know we don't like to get political here, but the question was "Why i…
> Propaganda mostly from the Republican party has convinced a great deal of people that Education is a waste of money. That's a misrepresentation. Plenty of them some care very much about fixing education and funding it. Just the kind the find most effective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Zh96wc01k The difference, as the video mentions, is that they always gets attacked as being 'anti-education', depsite intentio…
That would be partly because it is true http://www.people-press.org/2017/07/10/sharp-partisan-divisi... ('Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S.')
And its not helped by the fact that much of the GOP is apparent anti-science, and anti expertise https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/american-trust-scient... ('A 54 percent majority of Democrats, compared with just 13 percent of Republicans, say they have “a lot” of trust that what scientists say is accurate and reliable.')