A Boring Dystopia

They could hire people from.world.
Plenty of little rabid McCartyists here.

The hyper capitalist south is by no means great but I’d rather that than a disappearance state with cardboard walls. Authoritarianism is bad regardless of economic structure.

i heard shit like this in school too. but it wasn't from teachers or adults, just other idiot kids and i wasn't dumb enough to take it as a definite truth, though i did consider it plausible.

Some polticail staffer from PragerU at a high school teaching kids.

PragerU staffer walks in and grabs a chair turns it backwards. Turns their baseball cap backwards

"For real, we bussin about the evils of communism. We capping 67 about how communism punishes billionaires. We going to ohio all over capitalism."

That's the theology class

Americans think it's normal to pledge allegiance to a flag in school, they thank people for "their service" Indoctrination has been happening the whole time and it works.

Then let people decide for themselves.

The more you learn about history, the more you realize you don't know. Very difficult to "just teach history" when you're talking about an unfathomable number of people making an unfathomable number of decisions with unclear cause and effect.

What you learn in school is a very high level and narrow reading of events, largely informed by documents and transcriptions preserved by the wealthiest people in a region.

The only thing that can ever come out of that kind of historical study is nationalist jingoism of one flavor or another.

This dumbing people down and telling them what to think isn’t helping anyone at all.

The purpose of public education history classes is to craft a shared national identity.

Dumbing down events and telling people what to think is a simple and effective way of achieving that end.

They are afraid people will decide they don't really like a .01% hording 50% of the worlds wealth like dragons in their lairs on piles of gold.

first, so theres no confusion. i am against this program and its a facist move. i want to take a detour on your comment.

this article is more about socialism but people always confuse the two. i am a capitalist who believes in socialist programs. i believe in public health care, free public schooling (include universoty), and universal basic income. please use mybtaxes to pay for all of it.

capitalism is about owning your own busisness, ehich i agree with and does not conflict with everything socialism. not everything needs to be privately owned but we should have the freedom to privately own a business.

but your comment wasnt on socislism but communism. i have an honest question and not a snarky one, if you really love communism, why not move to a communist country? i genuinely want to know. communism doesnt support private property either and thats very important to me. i am also genx and for most of my kife, i have been happy with my country. my ideal president was barrack obama.

now that this country is becoming religous facist at the highest levels, i have thought aboit leaving so again , i wasnt being snarky. if i loved communism, i wouod have left.

sorry for the long comment, i judt hope you see i have a genuine curiosity, which is hard to communicate in a forum.

Also gen X & I remember always playing as the U.S.S.R. in any game that let me choose because of the absolute banger of a national anthem!

I could actually sell this: "Communism is way less fun than drugs, kids."

We're already in the Red Scare III™️

This is the beginning of the cleanse.

DARE probably got a lot of kid's parents thrown in jail.

Let's not forget the foster children to didler pipeline that is apparently foundational to the modern conservative movement.

We have to get these kids isolated and institutionalized so the rich people can abuse them. The orphan crushing machine needs blood.

The Dare program I went through must have been wildly different than everyone else's. Our police were local and usually parents of students and it was way more targeted at being safe and not feeling pressured into taking drugs. It def pushed the legal side of heavier drugs but was very specific about marijuana and making sure you are safe and in a safe place if you end up taking it. I'm 42 for reference.