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"It takes a village"
Social programs exist
"...no not like that."
Wife and I don't have any family nearby really so we get zero help with our youngest. We make okay money but my god any help at all would be a SUPER NICE use of my tax money over bombing brown children.
The GOP is a death cult.
In similar news, my oldest, who's in honors classes, didn't know what the Scopes Monkey Trial was. I hate the fucking Bible Belt.
i'm 35, took AP us history in high school in california, and i'm pretty sure i'd never heard of the scopes trial before just now. It seems like a somewhat esoteric thing to teach about to me? idk why he would be expected to know about it.
The Scopes Trial is integral to understanding the build up of the Religious Right in the US. People forget that Scopes lost the trial, the real win was the court of public opinion. It made that “literalist” fundamentalist christianity look ridiculous, regressive and anti-science in the public eye. Fundamentalists basically made a retreat to lick their wounds and plot other strategies over the next few decades.
William Jennings Bryant was involved and he’s a pretty critical character to understanding a lot of US economic history too - the idea that economic policy should benefit the common person, that we should not “crucify mankind upon a cross of gold” is something at has resonance today. It’s fascinating to consider how different his views on social welfare are to the people who would agree with him on creationism/teaching evolution in schools today.