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The Rs are diabolically brilliant. First, Reagan economics led to 40 years of defunding everything but wars (and tax breaks for the rich), including public schools. Then W, with a complicit Ted Kennedy (a fact that defies comprehension), passed every child left behind & pushed school vouchers, further defunding public schools, and dropped passing civics as a requirement to graduate from high school. Then the Rs and their celebrity mouthpieces turned their followers’ rage on critical thinking, ‘cause, you know, critical thinking is a way “liberal” teachers brainwash “your” children into — horror of horrors — thinking. My question is, was it all planned in advance, or has it evolved as each piece worked for them?

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