Oklahoma wird Highschool-Schüler als Tatsache für die Wahltheorien von 2020 unterrichten. Die neuen akademischen Standards fördern den US -Präsidenten Donald Trump und die unbegründeten Wahlerverschwörungstheorien seiner Verbündeten.

It’s called Fascism. 

Can’t wait for students to come to their own conclusions, not find fraud, and be marked as failing.

Or find evidence of Republicans cheating.

The problem is that republicans and fascist wants to “create” reality. They believe that truth is whatever the government say, and since they are the government…

So wait, Oklahoma is going teach as fact the Trump won the 2020 election thus making his current term unconstitutional? I assume this is bad because they’ll gloss over the part of the constitution that limits the President to only 2 terms.

There’s dumb and then there’s Oklahoma dumb. Sorry Oklahomans, but you know I’m right.

They already dont teach about the state sanctioned Tulsa Massacre- might as well give those students more fantasies to study?

The same education system that brought you the „Lost Cause“ myth on the American civil war. You know, the overt and obvious lie told for generations in Republican states that the American civil war was about „states rights“ and not preserving the institution of American chattel slavery.

Republicans aren’t good people. They’re immoral and obsessed with their disproven feelings.

The current administration’s war on education is undeniably reminiscent of how fascist regimes of the past have attempted to subvert the education system, attack the arts and intellectuals, and suppress opposing voices and viewpoints

But don’t take it from me…

Jason Stanley, author of *“How Fascism Works,“* and *“Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future“* argues:

> Fascist politics attacks education to undermine democracy and pluralism. Universities and educational institutions are targeted because they promote critical inquiry when challenging the myths that fascist politics rely on

Stanley describes how anti-intellectualism is used to:

> attack the media, universities, and scientists when they contradict the strong man’s authority.

The MAGA movement embraces anti-intellectualism as a means to dismiss the legitimacy of educated persons, experts, scientists and the media, to assert their superiority and the primacy of their beliefs.

The Trump administration has identified universities and public schools as places where „radical left“ ideas and conflicting perspectives are taught. This allows them to justify their use of draconian policies and executive orders that grant the government control over academic decision making.

Robert Paxton, author of „*Anatomy of Fascism*,“ explains the behavior of fascists:

> Fascism seeks to control education to instill its ideology in the youth, ensuring that future generations are loyal to the regime and its values.

> By reshaping educational curricula, fascist regimes aim to eliminate critical thinking and promote a narrative that supports their authoritarian rule.

Paxton also says that fascists value *“the superiority of the leader’s instincts over abstract and universal reason“*

This is what the Trump administration is hoping to accomplish by strong-arming universities, by fracturing the education system, by restructuring the curriculum and by overhauling programs and departments that don’t promote administration-approved viewpoints.

This serves to stifle critical thinking and program younger generations to accept the leader’s words and the party’s dogma over everything else.

Additionally, the Trump administration’s efforts to defund and dismantle the public education system will disproportionately impact underserved communities.

There’s also Lawrence Britt, who published *“Fascism Anyone?“*, which includes a list of 14 defining characteristics of fascism. One characteristic is the „*disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts:*“

> Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

MAGA is openly hostile towards public education, higher learning, academics and teachers, scientists and researchers, even towards artists.

The Trump admin has proposed eliminating funding for The National Endowment for the Arts agency, and Trump even recently took control of the Kennedy Center, appointing himself as chair and replacing its board members with loyalists.

The government has also been pressuring schools and universities into firing staff, while educators, administrators and even librarians continue to face violent threats from Trump supporters.

The current administration is cracking down on student protestors and unlawfully detaining students critical of Trump’s policies, all while demanding that universities report on foreign students and their affairs.

The government is demanding that schools hand over their admissions data so that the Trump administration can dictate who qualifies for admission and who does not. They’re also demanding that universities supply their employment information so the government can oversee hiring and firing.

The government is even putting certain departments under the supervision of outside security forces (literal thought police)

The Trump administration is also slashing funding for scientific research and grants. This will impact progress on cancer research and research on infectious diseases. It will also hinder the development of future generations of scientists.

Luis Britto García defines fascism in his essay *“Fascismo.“* One of the characteristics of fascism, Garcia says, is how „fascism is anti-intellectual:“

> Noting the scientific progress achieved by progressivism, Britto Garcia writes „Fascism does not invent, it recycles. It only believes in yesterday, an imaginary yesterday that never existed.“

This concept is instilled into the MAGA consciousness. „Scientific progress“ becomes negatively associated with „the left.“ Trump and his supporters constantly challenge widely agreed upon consensus while denying science. They even believe that their backwards, archaic views about science, medicine, biology, etc, are more valid than the relevant and leading scientific research.

Eden McLean, historian of fascism, notes that fascists historically put their efforts into controlling information:

> Restricting access to information and promoting conformity over critical thinking are tactics reminiscent of fascist regimes.

The Trump administration is already instituting policies that flag thousands of images, articles, online content, historical texts and even words for removal. They are suppressing free speech, attacking the press, and controlling what information is being disseminated to the public.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, historian and author of *“Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,“* notes that:

> Mussolini and Hitler both restructured educational systems to promote their authoritarian ideologies and suppress dissent

The goal for fascist regimes is to shape the ideologies of followers and future generations, suppressing any antithetical ideas and perspectives while promoting nationalistic and nativist ideas.

In this sense, teaching „patriotism“ amounts to radicalizing the population and instilling a set of „values“ and „principles“ that correspond with the regime’s authoritarian, ethnocentric, religious and chauvinistic tenets.

When forced to acknowledge these parallels, those on the far right will often try to accuse the opposition of pursuing these same tactics.

For fascists and their followers, they’re the *real* victims of oppression. They’re merely reacting to a system of tyranny that’s suffocating *them*. Equality amounts to persecution, addressing past injustices amounts to an assault on *their* rights and freedoms.

They fail to recognize historic inequities and perceive things like fairness, diversity and even impartiality as threats to a long-established hierarchy.

Contrary to what they believe, their insistence that they are the victims of a new system of oppression is, ironically, a consequence of them living within an unjust system for so long, and a system that has predisposed them to believe that they are victims.

These fascist and authoritarian movements propagandize their followers into adopting an „us vs. them“ mentality. Fascist leaders tend to rely on culture wars and the identification of problematic ideas, scapegoats and enemies to rally their followers into a patriotic frenzy, uniting them against these perceived threats to their core beliefs, their culture, their country, their hegemony, their very existence and identity.

But they won’t teach about Tulsa in 1921, when white people burned Black Wallstreet to the ground.

In veterinarian terminology, all members of the Justice Department (& SCOTUS) and Congress have successfully been spayed / neutered, and rendered usless as participants in a Check & Balance system of Democratic government.

All thanks to the American people for their:

A – Physical laziness to get off their ass and vote,

And

B – Mental laziness to vote objectively and intelligently.

Our future is now on you. Thanks for the future you’ve created.

They HAVE to teach it but do they have to teach is as the truth?

„Hey kids, let’s talk about fallacies. What’s a fallacy? Good question, Suzi!“