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Re-shearing the sheep

Is the federal government deputizing “Big Tech” to monitor domestic texts to stem a flood of so-called vax “misinformation”? If so, wouldn’t this form of corporate censorship indicate a lack of faith in the American public’s ability to discern the validity of what they consume through their communication devices?

If true, what does that say about the Beltway’s belief in public education’s effectiveness to deliver a cognitively competent populace? Aren’t teacher unions one of the biggest contributors to the campaigns of entrenched policymakers intent on preserving and increasing heavy-handed centralized authority to the detriment of the structure of the federal republic created by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America? Does the political class have a reason to sentence large swaths of its people to mediocre foundational educational experiences?

Is the sheep-ification devolution from individualism to collectivism losing steam, thus necessitating a sharpening of the shears?

William Baxley

Spokane

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