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How to Get Trump to Support Public Education: A Military Proposal | gadflyonthewallblog

How to Get Trump to Support Public Education: A Military Proposal | gadflyonthewallblog:

How to Get Trump to Support Public Education: A Military Proposal

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Donald Trump is dead set on destroying public education.
He and his mega-donor Education Secretary Betsy DeVos want to flood the market with vouchers to divert tax dollars to private and parochial schools thereby starving traditional public schools into closing.
But watching the orange one speaking to Congress last night, I got an idea. I know how to get this dimwitted blowhard to support public schools. And every conservative lawmaker will back him up.
Sound impossible? Not really. But the best part is we don’t need the Democrats to do a darn thing. As if they could. Their thumbs are planted so firmly up their own asses it would take an army of proctologists to save the party.
We don’t need them. All we need is language. Just rename things.
It’s the same tactic Nazis have used to take over the Republican Party. They’re no longer called Nazis. Now they’re “white nationalists,” or just members of the “Alt-Right.”
So we can use the same ploy: Conservatives won’t support “public schools” so let’s call them something else – something they will support no matter what.
Here’s the plan: Trump wants to increase military spending by $54 billion. So we reclassify education as a branch of the military.
We could combine them and call it an increase in the military!
I know what you’re thinking. If we do that, the armed forces are going to gobble up How to Get Trump to Support Public Education: A Military Proposal | gadflyonthewallblog: