Thread by @couchguy

The #GOP via #FoxNews & other means, is trying to equate teaching kids not to hate each other because of their skin color with teaching kids that being white is bad. This is what they are calling #CriticalRaceTheory. Really?

#CriticalRaceTheory is a scholarly field that studies how racism affects society. It is not a “blame the whites” movement & it isn’t being taught to children, even secondarily. Anything you heard to the contrary is a lie.

“They’re teaching our kids CRT” is part of the same lie as “white genocide” & “reverse racism” — an excuse for people uncomfortable with the topic of race to claim racism no longer exists, & to manipulate our history to keep people ignorant.

All books were removed from Florida public schools, so the GOP regime there can assure that history there is rewritten to suit their racist agenda. They promote ignorance so they next generation can be “comfortable” instead of informed.

Nor is the history the only target. Science must also be “rewritten” to match the GOP agenda. They must keep people ignorant of both because ignorance keeps the masses from recognizing lies when they hear them.

Ignorance also keeps people angry about nonexistent problems so that they don’t ask inconvenient questions like “Why do people work harder just to make the wealthy richer?” & “Why do people vote for politicians who continually act against those same people’s best interests?”

The GOP wants people divided over color & language & religion so they will fight each other over these trivialities, never realizing that they are ALL United in that they are being made into serfs who get less freedom while the wealthy get more control.

The Republican Party was once a party of moderation. Today, the moderates have been driven away as RINOs, leaving the GOP steered only by a radical fringe of people who hate your freedom & opportunity and love only their power & money.

I’m a middle class white born in 1954 to a poor family. I remember when making that sort of change was what America was all about. It was back when ideas like honor, charity, love, education & helping your neighbor were seen as virtues instead of vices.

America was founded on the principle that the only way to ensure our own freedom was to help each other. If we fail that, we fail as Americans. The GOP of today wants us to fail. In fact, they think it is the only way for them to succeed.

We don’t have to put up with this. The liars & haters are a tiny minority. But every time we believe the lies & are tricked into hating, we make it easier for them to take more from us.

But this isn’t between two political parties any more, if it ever was. All political parties lie, but not all people do. We have to deal with a flawed system in that we tend to have to vote for those who lie less. (It’s still a better system than most, though.)

In our system, we have to choose who we believe, then watch them so they do what we need them to do. I don’t believe what people say, but I do watch what they do. That leaves a pretty clear choice right now.

The GOP tells us everything we want to hear, but never actually does anything to help us. Instead, they lie to divide us, so arrogant now that they don’t even pretend they need voters.

The Dems know they must still serve the interests of people to retain power. This isn’t a party that thinks it can steal elections. They have to move things along to survive, especially when everything the other side has done was designed to cripple our right to choose.

Who do you trust more: people who keep you weak by denying economic opportunity & lifesaving health care, while keeping you too busy fighting each other to notice, or the people who believe that their power depends on sharing some of it with you?

The GOP believes winning requires everyone else to lose. That’s not freedom, that’s fascism. The rational person will support those who at the very least know the only way to make anything better is to make it better for everyone. (End thread)

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