The Republican Party knows exactly what it is doing. 

It will attempt to defund education whenever it can. 

It does not want or need an educated populous. 

It does not want or need questions being asked. 

It wants the continued destruction of the middle class which was just too big and too powerful. 

It wants the methodical destruction of as many institutions as possible, from the U.S. Postal Service to the powerful Teachers Union to the Teamsters.

Today the Postal Service is a shadow of its former self. The Teachers haven't fared much better. The Teamsters? Their story is yet to be written.

It is frightening to see how vulnerable we were and how easy it was to take this democracy down. 

All it took was to keep us distracted with endless war.

Dot Calm