Those Who Successfully Gutted the American Educational System Are Now Reaping the Rewards

We’re just now learning about the factors that put Trump back into the White House. In particular, too few voters are capable of understanding the issues, and, as a consequence, too few showed up at the polls.

Many people, me included, mistakenly supposed that the threat of a full-on fascist in the White House was going to bring voters out of the woodwork After all, do Americans really want to be led by someone who admires the world’s dictators and clearly wants to become one himself?

The answer is that most of them simply don’t care. Involvement in politics would require effort, e.g., taking a few minutes to look up words like “authoritarian,” and familiarizing themselves with the issues covered in Project 2025, a federal policy agenda and blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch, key components of which include:

• Opposing abortion and reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and racial equity.

• Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.

• Using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.

• Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, while cutting federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.

• Ending America’s climate leadership on the international stage, preventing the global community from achieving climate goals necessary to maintain a livable planet.

Now that all this is clear, an important question arises: What about America’s future, given that our investment in educating our young people is under greater attack with each passing year? I know a young person who buys his beer at a convenience store whose Gen Z clerk was unaware that the United States had an election earlier this week. What’s that level of ignorance going to look like when it keeps increasing exponentially?