How can you be 43 and not know who Hitler was and what he did?

[keroro gunsou]

60. If left in the hands

Of actual educators, yes. Politicians, not so much. The reality is, we missed our chance to impose national education standards, and now, the process will be so politicized it is almost giving the Reich-wing a brand new slap of red meat culture war bullshit to read their ignorantly intolerant base. I honestly don’t know when that tipping point was, but if we had those standards in place, Republicans, especially the recent crop of crazy motherfuckers wouldn’t even be elected city dog catcher. In fact, they might return to some sense of sanity and be a proper loyal opposition party. In my family, the crazy outnumbers the sane republicans so much that I can blame their lack of a proper education rather than abject stupidity. The republicans in my family that I consider sane are both highly educated and vote mostly on their pocketbook, not the culture war/religious wedge issues. Whether or not I can trace that to their actual education is still debatable, but for as long as I have been able to discuss politics with them, they focused on traditional republican issues in terms of taxes and government spending. They are pro-choice black sheep like me, not that we mind.