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Republican panics because of Republicans
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Rules:
Rules subject to change, have a pleasant flight
"This is all useless bullshit!!" "How will learning history and science pay my bills?! Or pay my rent?!"
All they care about is doing the bare minimum to skate by. They don't really want to participate in society or life. They need to be put out to pasture -- given a tiny eco house on a quarter acre of land somewhere, sent food boxes once or twice a week, left to fend for themselves and, most importantly, not allowed a say in politics anymore.
Education HAS to be a requirement to vote and education guidelines and cirricula have to be hard encoded in the next Constitution or equivalent we make. Have AIs anonymously test everybody to prevent discrimination. Have people hand-write exams or dictate into a microphone for oral exams to prevent cheating
I don't care if people don't like it, it's the truth. "It can be abused" is no longer an excuse in a system that has been broken specifically because of the lack of such a policy. Democracy only works when the population is educated, but the people don't want to be educated, so you have to either force them or have an academic ruling class run everything.