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*The clandestine logic behind "#Reaganomics"
"The Origin of #StudentDebt:*
#Reagan Adviser Warned Free #College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”
...#RogerFreeman, who also worked for #Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education."
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The hidden agenda of the education-policy aspects of #Reagonomics have created an abomination of the founding fathers' #AmericanDream.
"In 1822, founding father #JamesMadison wrote to a friend that “the liberal appropriations made by the Legislature of #Kentucky for a..."
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
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"...general system of Education cannot be too much applauded. … Enlightened patriotism … is now providing for the State a Plan of #Education embracing every class of Citizens.”
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance,” #JamesMadison explained..."
You might ask for his reasons?
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"...attend for #California residents, had become a national center of organizing against the #VietnamWar. Deep anxiety about this reached the highest levels of the U.S. government. #JohnMcCone, the head of the #CIA, requested a meeting with J. #EdgarHoover, head of the #FBI,..."
@HistoPol Reagan (GOP) lit the match that started the US into a slow decline in many ways not only the financial security of people were affected but also social stability. The War on Drugs was a race war against Blacks.
Nixon was corrupt but
Reagan was much worse.