General Discussion

this is bigger than just that part. Can we fix dumb? No. But we at least have to try with messaging and prevention.

Two things might work :

1. We have to fight the corporate defenders of dumb messaging along with cleaning up the messes. Why? Because use the dumb leader and media use words like "elitists" when we rightly point out the dumb. So we're in a three level fight while we do cleanup.

2. We have to prevent dumb if we ever win another election. Starting with schools.
The Dept of Ed cannot tell states what to do about their public schools unless those schools receive federal money; currently it's mostly in the form of Head Start and learning disability program funding, which states have not stepped up to pay on their own.

How?
We have to
a) have a majority that pass a law that re-establishes the Dept of Education, which itself will restore fund equitably through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004); the federal disability payments under IDEA actually follow the student until s/he is age 21.

b) offer a national public school subsidy that travels with the individual student like disability money does, and does not go to school 'districts.' With that money, the student, no matter if he moves within a district, state, or across states, is guaranteed minimal instructional money in addition to what current states pay as "per-pupil-per-year expenditures."

Just the way payments go to disabled students now, this subsidy extends to all students who maintain a D average or better through high school and college.

Why? Because we have to try. Because it it works, students and working class families will see this as a big deal, and we'll earn back the votes Biden got in 2020.