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Summary

President Joe Biden’s economic achievements—lowering inflation, reducing gas prices, creating jobs, and boosting manufacturing—are largely unrecognized by the public, despite his successes.

His tenure saw landmark legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and major infrastructure investments.

However, Biden's approval ratings remain low, attributed to inflation backlash, weak communication, and a media landscape prone to misinformation.

Democrats face a “propaganda problem” rather than a policy failure, with many voters likely to credit incoming President Trump for Biden’s accomplishments due to partisan messaging and social media dynamics.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

By design. About a century ago, Rockefeller turned the public school system into a mindless factory worker production machine. Republicans have been reducing funding for decades since.

They only want high school graduates to be smart enough to run the machines. College tuition paywalls real education. As AI improves, the bar lowers further. Public schools will be continually defunded or converted to a voucher system in order to exclude even more citizens.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

They only want high school graduates to be smart enough to run the machines.

Nothing new. Jim & Jesse even did a song about it years ago.

The company owned the houses And the company owned the grammar school You'll never see an educated cotton mill man They figure you don't need to learn Anything but how to earn

The money that you pay upon demand To the general store they own Or else they'll take away your home And give it to some other homeless Cotton mill man

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on what Rockefeller did? Never heard that before

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rockefeller worked with the General Education Board to reshape education to be vocational. He also pushed for the duration of the school day to be extended to eight hours, for early exposure and adoption of the standard work day.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED349475.pdf

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Very interesting. Surely we can trust our current crop of billionaires to do better for society!

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

Republicans decided back in the late 70s and early 80s that the public was too educated (and too hard to control) so they decided to do something about it. 45y of slashed education funding and standards later here we are.