US democracy is about to die

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... So many indicators for this, the most recent is Trump calling for the DoJ to go after his enemies:

Dear American friends, I hope you find a peaceful way out of this. As for us here, I can only hope we keep the contagion at bay.

Yes, I know all of this. His campaign, though, distanced themselves from Project 2025. Did I believe them? Not for a second, but many of his supporters do.

Large sections of his voters get their news from Fox News, OAN and other extremely biased right wing outlets. Many of them likely trust the reporting of the right wing news outlets in particular. Not only do those outlets outrageously spin certain stories but others are completely buried.

A recent example, about a week or so ago, the major headline on most US news website, and international news websites in their US or World sections, related to the huge stock market drops, triggered by Trump's tariffs. The same story was only briefly on Fox's front page, about 10 items down, before disappearing from it altogether.

Pre-election, Republicans voters were almost as likely as Democrat voters to see the other side as a threat to democracy. Notwithstanding that I don't agree with them for a moment, that's why I don't think that all/most Republicans were voting with the aim of ending democracy (even if that's what comes to pass) - hence me taking issue with Dotjones' post.

From that article it all sounds like a bit of a storm in a tea cup to me.

Not responsible for that much, probably admin heavy and various conservative presidents wanting to close it down since the Reagan era (40 years) and Trump finally getting round to it.

Maybe they decided there were better ways to admin the £188 billion of funding it gets.

Trump attacking unnecessary bureacracy in education or Trump negatively impacting the education of thousands of the vulnerable ? Each will decide their own I guess.

The bulk of education funding in the US is raised very locally, from property taxes. So rich areas have well-funded schools, poor areas do not. Removing Federal funding will only make this worse.

One of the reasons that education is in such a mess is that the states control it. Not all states are an issue, of course. Certain ones in particular are the problem.

Maybe they decided there were better ways to admin the £188 billion of funding it gets.

Little chance that any school kid in a deprived area will see any of it. Every chance that it'll disappear into the pockets of the billionaires who are having their taxes cut.

Scrapping the DoE is primarily designed to allow schools to refuse admissions of children with disabilities and cut education funding to poorer areas.

Basically, it's part of the "anti DEI" agenda.

I suppose whether or not it's a storm in a teacup depends on how strongly you dislike poor or disabled children.

Hey, @GasPanic. Any response to my fairly lengthy response to you, complete with explanatory links that you seem to have declined to click in your hurry to dismiss it as a storm in a teacup?

I don't have a disabled or SEN child, but I find it difficult to dismiss what's going to happen to other people's children, but I guess you do.

Nothing irritates me more than uninformed ignorance. You have a choice.

Trump's getting more brazen, or maybe more forgetful. He claims he did not sign the proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, despite the fact that the proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.

Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act | CNN Politics

@GasPanic states “I don’t know much about US education “. Nuff said.

I'm firmly convinced that Trump is showing the early stages of dementia but he's in power, so who knows where this will end.

That's some great gaslighting in there from the White House saying that "Obviously he was talking about the original Act"