The confluence of societal and governmental factors leading to these outcomes is an irredeemable tragedy. Nobody gives a fuck about education and the consequences are accelerating

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[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Just because the US keeps its population deeply uneducated doesn't mean it isn't also working extremely hard to keep it propagandized and placated in ways that uneducated historic revolutionary populations were not. The material conditions in the US right now are still vastly different than those places as the very center of the imperial core. Illiteracy does not have to have a causal relationship with revolutionary potential, it's just that literacy is not required to have a revolutionary population. I think ExistentialNightmare is right, certainly in the short term, neither party, who both represent the ruling class, benefits from having an educated population. Long term is another story, but we all know that long term isn't a real consideration otherwise climate change would be taken seriously by the ruling class beyond using it cynically for fascist agendas.