Knowledge: Why is this regime defunding education and public media like Sesame Street?

 Why is this regime defunding education and public media like Sesame Street? 

FOR POWER and manipulation, blind allegiance, suppressing critics, 

Keep us dumb

Keep us sick

Keep us poor

Keep us un-educated

Keep us pregnant and in the kitchen

Dismantle science

Suppress the media and press

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key summary

Robert Reich argues that Donald Trump's actions, such as trying to "cancel" Sesame Street, are part of a broader authoritarian strategy to control public thought by attacking the "educated public." The text outlines five key facets of this alleged attack:

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1. Rewriting History 📚

Trump and his supporters whitewash historical events like slavery, segregation, and the genocide of Native Americans, while also erasing the LGBTQ+ rights movement.¹ This is done to prevent people from questioning authority and seeking future change.

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2. Undermining Education 🏫

Trump has been allowed to abolish the Department of Education by the Supreme Court, cut vital funding for public schools (especially for marginalized persons), and gain influence over universities by controlling admissions, faculty hiring, and curriculum.² This is an effort to instill "blind allegiance" and suppress dissent rather than fostering critical thinking.

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3. Stifling Scientific Research 🔬

Trump is illegally freezing university research grants and cutting funding to key scientific and health organizations like the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, USAID, CDC, and FDA.³ This is a strategic move to undermine objective facts and hinder progress, as authoritarians prefer the ruler's power over facts.

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4. Silencing the Free Press 📰

Trump is silencing major news sources through frivolous and bad lawsuits, threats to broadcast licenses, and defunding public media like PBS and NPR.⁴ This is illegal an attempt to control the information Americans receive and prevent the press from questioning authority.

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5. Attacking the Arts 🎨

Finally, Trump is canceling grants for the National Endowment for the Arts, dictating displays at the Smithsonian, and appointing himself chair of the Kennedy Center.⁵ This as an effort to limit free speech and expression, thereby silencing creative dissent.

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In summary, the Robert Reich demonstrates that these actions collectively aim to make the public less informed, less inspired, and easier to control, ultimately empowering division and hindering the capacity for self-government.

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He has embraced one of the mottos from

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George Orwell's 1984:

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He knows that an uninformed public

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is easier to divide and conquer.

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I love the poorly educated!

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There are five facets

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to the authoritarian attack on our minds.

Authoritarians know that if they can convince us

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our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe

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our ruler is always right.

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If they can make us forget

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how brave activists fought for change in the past,

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they can stop us from seeking change in the future.

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Rewriting history goes hand in hand

2:17

with the next facet of the attack on our minds.

2:24

Authoritarians know that if they can convince us

1:59

our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe

2:02

our ruler is always right.

2:05

If they can make us forget

2:07

how brave activists fought for change in the past,

2:11

they can stop us from seeking change in the future.

2:15

Rewriting history goes hand in hand

2:17

with the next facet of the attack on our minds.

2:24

As Trump tries to abolish the Department of Education,

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he's also proposing to cut funding for K-12 public schools

2:32

and to force universities to give him influence over

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student admissions, faculty hiring, and what's taught.

2:39

As a professor, I know firsthand

2:42

how education empowers young people's minds.

2:45

We can't have a functioning democracy

2:47

if people cannot deliberate critically about it.

2:50

That's why authoritarians replace

2:55

Children will be taught to love America.

2:58

Children will be taught to be patriots.

3:00

Instead of teaching students to think for themselves,

3:03

authoritarians seek to instill blind allegiance

3:08

and to suppress dissent.

3:10

That's why the Italian and German fascists

3:13

of the 20th century immediately turned their country's

3:17

educational systems into instruments of the Party.

3:20

Placing a chokehold on universities

3:23

also relates to the next facet of the attack.

3:31

By freezing university research grants

3:33

and attacking the National Institutes of Health,

3:35

the National Science Foundation, and USAID,

3:39

Trump is stifling medical and scientific research.

3:42

And his cuts to the Centers for Disease Control

3:45

and the Food and Drug Administration

3:47

put all of us at risk.

3:49

He's also abducting scientists

3:51

who disagree with his administration.

3:54

Can you imagine a crueler way to rob America

3:58

of the global intellectual capital that has helped us

4:01

become the world leader in scientific research?

4:04

All of this moves us further from cures

4:07

for cancer, Alzheimer's, and HIV.

4:10

This could seem baffling

4:12

if you don't recognize it as part of a larger strategy.

4:15

We all get sick,

4:16

so how can medical research and disease prevention

4:19

be political?

4:21

Because science acknowledges objective facts.

4:24

Authoritarians insist that the ruler

4:27

is more powerful than the facts.

4:30

As Orwell wrote,

4:38

Another way to attack facts?

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As I call it, the fake news media.

4:45

From suing ABC and CBS over their news coverage

4:49

to threatening to strip network broadcast licenses

4:52

to defunding PBS and NPR,

4:55

Trump is trying to silence major news sources.

4:59

He wants control over what information

5:02

Americans can or cannot get.

5:04

A free press exists to question authority

5:08

and help the public question it as well.

5:10

But authoritarians insist they must never be questioned.

5:15

Don’t ever say what you said, that’s a nasty question.

5:19

Authoritarians want to consolidate state power

5:22

over what the public can know.

5:24

The final facet of the authoritarian attack

5:27

on our minds also attacks our spirit.

5:30

Which brings us to...

5:34

The arts exists to provoke us, challenge our thinking,

5:38

and help us see beyond ourselves.

5:40

They're an important and independent aspect

5:43

of an educated society, which is why

5:46

authoritarians have historically attacked the arts.

5:50

So it's no surprise that Trump is canceling grants

5:53

from the National Endowment for the Arts, dictating what's

5:56

displayed at the Smithsonian, and has installed himself

6:00

as the chair of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

6:03

To limit art is to limit free speech and expression.

6:07

It's a crucial step that authoritarians use to silence

6:11

anyone who dissents through creativity.

6:14

Added up,

6:15

these five facets of Trump's attack on the American mind

6:19

render us less informed, less inspired, and easier to control.

6:25

They empower him to divide us with hatred and fear.

6:29

And they prevent us from discovering that we have

6:32

more in common with one another

6:34

than with the authoritarians who try to rule us.

6:37

This attack on our minds reduces our capacity

6:40

for self-government,

6:41

because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

6:45

Please –

6:46

help spread the truth by sharing this video.

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2:27

he's also proposing to cut funding for K-12 public schools

2:32

and to force universities to give him influence over

2:36

student admissions, faculty hiring, and what's taught.

2:39

As a professor, I know firsthand

2:42

how education empowers young people's minds.

2:45

We can't have a functioning democracy

2:47

if people cannot deliberate critically about it.

2:50

That's why authoritarians replace

2:55

Children will be taught to love America.

2:58

Children will be taught to be patriots.

3:00

Instead of teaching students to think for themselves,

3:03

authoritarians seek to instill blind allegiance

3:08

and to suppress dissent.

3:10

That's why the Italian and German fascists

3:13

of the 20th century immediately turned their country's

3:17

educational systems into instruments of the Party.

3:20

Placing a chokehold on universities

3:23

also relates to the next facet of the attack.

3:31

By freezing university research grants

3:33

and attacking the National Institutes of Health,

3:35

the National Science Foundation, and USAID,

3:39

Trump is stifling medical and scientific research.

3:42

And his cuts to the Centers for Disease Control

3:45

and the Food and Drug Administration

3:47

put all of us at risk.

3:49

He's also abducting scientists

3:51

who disagree with his administration.

3:54

Can you imagine a crueler way to rob America

3:58

of the global intellectual capital that has helped us

4:01

become the world leader in scientific research?

4:04

All of this moves us further from cures

4:07

for cancer, Alzheimer's, and HIV.

4:10

This could seem baffling

4:12

if you don't recognize it as part of a larger strategy.

4:15

We all get sick,

4:16

so how can medical research and disease prevention

4:19

be political?

4:21

Because science acknowledges objective facts.

4:24

Authoritarians insist that the ruler

4:27

is more powerful than the facts.

4:30

As Orwell wrote,

4:38

Another way to attack facts?

4:43

As I call it, the fake news media.

4:45

From suing ABC and CBS over their news coverage

4:49

to threatening to strip network broadcast licenses

4:52

to defunding PBS and NPR,

4:55

Trump is trying to silence major news sources.

4:59

He wants control over what information

5:02

Americans can or cannot get.

5:04

A free press exists to question authority

5:08

and help the public question it as well.

5:10

But authoritarians insist they must never be questioned.

5:15

Don’t ever say what you said, that’s a nasty question.

5:19

Authoritarians want to consolidate state power

5:22

over what the public can know.

5:24

The final facet of the authoritarian attack

5:27

on our minds also attacks our spirit.

5:30

Which brings us to...

5:34

The arts exists to provoke us, challenge our thinking,

5:38

and help us see beyond ourselves.

5:40

They're an important and independent aspect

5:43

of an educated society, which is why

5:46

authoritarians have historically attacked the arts.

5:50

So it's no surprise that Trump is canceling grants

5:53

from the National Endowment for the Arts, dictating what's

5:56

displayed at the Smithsonian, and has installed himself

6:00

as the chair of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

6:03

To limit art is to limit free speech and expression.

6:07

It's a crucial step that authoritarians use to silence

6:11

anyone who dissents through creativity.

6:14

Added up,

6:15

these five facets of Trump's attack on the American mind

6:19

render us less informed, less inspired, and easier to control.

6:25

They empower him to divide us with hatred and fear.

6:29

And they prevent us from discovering that we have

6:32

more in common with one another

6:34

than with the authoritarians who try to rule us.

6:37

This attack on our minds reduces our capacity

6:40

for self-government,

6:41

because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

6:45

Please –

6:46

help spread the truth by sharing this video.

English (United States)

1, 

Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public.

Placing a chokehold on universities

3:23

also relates to the next facet of the attack.

3:31

By freezing university research grants

3:33

and attacking the National Institutes of Health,

3:35

the National Science Foundation, and USAID,

3:39

Trump is stifling medical and scientific research.

3:42

And his cuts to the Centers for Disease Control

3:45

and the Food and Drug Administration

3:47

put all of us at risk.

3:49

He's also abducting scientists

3:51

who disagree with his administration.

3:54

Can you imagine a crueler way to rob America

3:58

of the global intellectual capital that has helped us

4:01

become the world leader in scientific research?

4:04

All of this moves us further from cures

4:07

for cancer, Alzheimer's, and HIV.

4:10

This could seem baffling

4:12

if you don't recognize it as part of a larger strategy.

4:15

We all get sick,

4:16

so how can medical research and disease prevention

4:19

be political?

4:21

Because science acknowledges objective facts.

4:24

Authoritarians insist that the ruler

4:27

is more powerful than the facts.

4:30

As Orwell wrote,

4:38

Another way to attack facts?

4:43

As I call it, the fake news media.

4:45

From suing ABC and CBS over their news coverage

4:49

to threatening to strip network broadcast licenses

4:52

to defunding PBS and NPR,

4:55

Trump is trying to silence major news sources.

4:59

He wants control over what information

5:02

Americans can or cannot get.

5:04

A free press exists to question authority

5:08

and help the public question it as well.

5:10

But authoritarians insist they must never be questioned.

5:15

Don’t ever say what you said, that’s a nasty question.

5:19

Authoritarians want to consolidate state power

5:22

over what the public can know.

5:24

The final facet of the authoritarian attack

5:27

on our minds also attacks our spirit.

5:30

Which brings us to...

5:34

The arts exists to provoke us, challenge our thinking,

5:38

and help us see beyond ourselves.

5:40

They're an important and independent aspect

5:43

of an educated society, which is why

5:46

authoritarians have historically attacked the arts.

5:50

So it's no surprise that Trump is canceling grants

5:53

from the National Endowment for the Arts, dictating what's

5:56

displayed at the Smithsonian, and has installed himself

6:00

as the chair of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

6:03

To limit art is to limit free speech and expression.

6:07

It's a crucial step that authoritarians use to silence

6:11

anyone who dissents through creativity.

6:14

Added up,

6:15

these five facets of Trump's attack on the American mind

6:19

render us less informed, less inspired, and easier to control.

6:25

They empower him to divide us with hatred and fear.

6:29

And they prevent us from discovering that we have

6:32

more in common with one another

6:34

than with the authoritarians who try to rule us.

6:37

This attack on our minds reduces our capacity

6:40

for self-government,

6:41

because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

6:45

Please –

6:46

help spread the truth by sharing this video.

English (United States)