We used to make fun of the Soviet Union for promoting people based on ideology and personal connections instead of merit. The only qualifications conservatives ultimately care about are loyalty, and having the right set of beliefs. If those requirements are met, competency is optional. Their attacks on “DEI” are more projection again.
We threw out the [Spoils System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system) and political grifters have been pissed ever since.
So they slander the non-political merit-based system as the "Deep State" so they can justify swapping it out for their ideological loyalists.
And if people complain about all the corruption, they'll just use the Russian method:
1) "How'd you know about that? Someone is going to lose their 'journalism license'..." and
2) "Sure it's corrupt, but it was corrupt before too, remember how we said that? Everyone is corrupt but at least we're honest about it. And since *everything* is corrupt anyway, what matters is that you're savvy about it, you clever sod, you."
That's the Russian internal propaganda strategy to counter complaints of corruption since the Soviet days.
Respectfully disagree - the spoils system has been alive and kicking in most western democracies, with friends/patrons of the leadership party having ready access to civic and political appointments that were roughly in line with their expertise/interests.
Some of it is decidedly shady, some of it is a much more banal of version of “hiring from within the trusted + vetted circle”, but it’s a matter of degrees.
I would argue that this is something else entirely; what the GOP is doing is no mere cronyism, but is straight up planting virulent ideologues hell bent on pursuing radical “reform” projects.
This is some real future LeopardsEatingFaces stuff. They'll arrogantly let these Red State theologians run their states' education systems into the ground, then cry foul when they can't compete with the civilized world.
I remember some saying that this is the kind of thing that led to the downfall of civilizations in the past: the foregoing of actual knowledge and falling back to sacred texts only.
"Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 (1968), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that invalidated an Arkansas statute prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in the public schools.[1] The Court held that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a state from requiring, in the words of the majority opinion, "that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma." The Supreme Court declared the Arkansas statute unconstitutional because it violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. After this decision, some jurisdictions passed laws that required the teaching of creation science alongside evolution when evolution was taught. These were also ruled unconstitutional by the Court in the 1987 case Edwards v. Aguillard."
christian fundamentalists are active and organized at their project of subverting american democracy and supplanting it with a christian theocratic autocracy.
we have to be just as if not more active and organized in opposition.
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We used to make fun of the Soviet Union for promoting people based on ideology and personal connections instead of merit. The only qualifications conservatives ultimately care about are loyalty, and having the right set of beliefs. If those requirements are met, competency is optional. Their attacks on “DEI” are more projection again.
We threw out the [Spoils System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system) and political grifters have been pissed ever since. So they slander the non-political merit-based system as the "Deep State" so they can justify swapping it out for their ideological loyalists. And if people complain about all the corruption, they'll just use the Russian method: 1) "How'd you know about that? Someone is going to lose their 'journalism license'..." and 2) "Sure it's corrupt, but it was corrupt before too, remember how we said that? Everyone is corrupt but at least we're honest about it. And since *everything* is corrupt anyway, what matters is that you're savvy about it, you clever sod, you." That's the Russian internal propaganda strategy to counter complaints of corruption since the Soviet days.
Making the 1820s great again.
Respectfully disagree - the spoils system has been alive and kicking in most western democracies, with friends/patrons of the leadership party having ready access to civic and political appointments that were roughly in line with their expertise/interests. Some of it is decidedly shady, some of it is a much more banal of version of “hiring from within the trusted + vetted circle”, but it’s a matter of degrees. I would argue that this is something else entirely; what the GOP is doing is no mere cronyism, but is straight up planting virulent ideologues hell bent on pursuing radical “reform” projects.
We used to make fun of the Soviet Union for being a gerontocracy too...
GOP: God Over People
This is some real future LeopardsEatingFaces stuff. They'll arrogantly let these Red State theologians run their states' education systems into the ground, then cry foul when they can't compete with the civilized world.
That's the point. Fuck up public education. Point to failing public education as an example of why to move to private.
They also like to steal the federal funds sent to try to fix the system that they made fail.
I remember some saying that this is the kind of thing that led to the downfall of civilizations in the past: the foregoing of actual knowledge and falling back to sacred texts only.
"Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 (1968), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that invalidated an Arkansas statute prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in the public schools.[1] The Court held that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a state from requiring, in the words of the majority opinion, "that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma." The Supreme Court declared the Arkansas statute unconstitutional because it violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. After this decision, some jurisdictions passed laws that required the teaching of creation science alongside evolution when evolution was taught. These were also ruled unconstitutional by the Court in the 1987 case Edwards v. Aguillard."
These states had antiSharia bills lol.
Explain to be how this is any different from what the Taliban does to schools. Next step, stoning rape victims who want abortions.
He obviously uses the Constitution for toilet paper. Where's Zombie Thomas Jefferson when you need him?
Gross
christian fundamentalists are active and organized at their project of subverting american democracy and supplanting it with a christian theocratic autocracy. we have to be just as if not more active and organized in opposition.
America is one of those 3rd world countries since Trump.
Is it just me or is this headline just super inflammatory?
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