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Why did so many MAGA folks skip civics and government in school?
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@georgetakei They have worked to make us ignorant; it makes us powerless.
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@georgetakei To correct that MAGA guy, no one tried, convicted, and jailed after the 6 Jan armed insurrection was a political prisoner. They were all common criminals, like their associates in the current White House.
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and after America got justice for their attempted insurrection and they got jail
they were freed by the Usurper in Chief
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@georgetakei It does go a long way towards explaing why they want to abolish due process. Sometimes people are proven guilty in a court of law and go to jail - at least until Trump springs them.
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@georgetakei because they stopped teaching it after the Civil Rights/Viet Nam war protest?
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@georgetakei MAGA folks don't skip those. People who skip those *become* MAGA folks.
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@georgetakei My wife and I took those classes and they were required in our schools. My two sons had to be taught those things at home because the schools never offered those classes. Someone has been ripping critical learning and subjects out of the public school system. I bet I know which party that is!
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@georgetakei It's not just maga. It's Americans. Too many are really illiterate. They should have been failed until they learned, but that hasn't been how it works in about 35 years. Americans graduate high school and are illiterate.
Republican (Reagan/Bush) anti-intellectualism campaign was very successful. Education is "elite". Bush graduated from Yale. Tom Cotton from Harvard. They manipulated & brainwashed poor people. They don't know laws or history at all.
Republican (Reagan/Bush) anti-intellectualism campaign was very successful. Education is "elite". Bush graduated from Yale. Tom Cotton from Harvard. They manipulated & brainwashed poor people. They don't know laws or history at all.
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@georgetakei ... and then they got pardons, which many argued in court meant they could not be charged with violating child sex laws of various kinds because those crimes were only exposed by investigation into crimes they were pardoned for.
I would argue that they in fact did not get due process and in fact skated completely by on every treason imaginable.
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@georgetakei 'When the law rules against us, the law is broken and clearly biased. We're not poor, we're not black or hispanic, we're not first generation immigrants so clearly we're being persecuted by having to face the consequences of our actions!'
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I must have missed something, I didn't think there were any political Jan 6 prisoners.
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They are no #political#Prisoners, but #lowLife#Criminals to put it the #correct Way. And to ask, if they had a due #Process, says all about the #Intelligence of the #Person asking. Instead of #fake - #Gangmembers, to be #illegal #deported to #Ecuador, #american#WhiteTrash still get fair #Processes in #America. But the #brainwashed probably don't know that #Fact.
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@georgetakei See, this is why home schooling isn't allowed in most parts of the civilized world.
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many foreigners overseas know more about the US system than Americans do
why?
because they need to study the very thing that might come and bomb them - to try in vain to predict how that dangerous wounded beast might behave
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@georgetakei "This is your gentle reminder that THERE'S A REASON WE THINK YOU'RE STUPID."
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@georgetakei By the time I was in HS (Young-Gen-X or Old-Millenial), Civics and Government were electives...
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@georgetakei Because the conservatives got rid of civics and governments in schools when they came up with "No Child Left Behind" and left them off the test.
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