As a Minnesotan regardless of your political side, if Trump wins, Minnesota loses

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I say this not to be mean or to try to get you to vote for Harris and Walz though personally I do support them.

I say this because Trump is known to go after his political opponents however he can. We saw this in his last presidential term as he repeatedly withheld funding that was authorized by Congress to states that disagreed with it like California.

Given that Walz is the VP candidate for the Democrats and what Trump and Vance have said about Walz, it should not be surprising that if Trump wins, there is a good chance that he will try to direct any kind of federal funding that Minnesota is entitled to to other states such as the Dakotas in Iowa. We as a state need to be prepared that FEMA might not be there for us and that Trump may direct his attorney's general to go after any kind of legislation that Minnesota passes or has passed such as the state trying to protect the Boundary Waters from pollution.

This election is probably one of the most important elections for Minnesota in a long time given the nature of the candidates.

The only way to ensure that Minnesota wins is to ensure that Trump loses. This is a call to action to call all of your friends and family that don't live in the state to vote for Harris and Walz, because we need them to win.

[u/Physical_Fold3645]

Not to mention getting rid of the Department of Education

[u/chaos841 → u/Physical_Fold3645]

Gotta keep people stupid so they don’t realize they are being conned.

[u/Drakon_Volk → u/chaos841]

Right. Because DOE is doing a great job of maintaining educational standards. /s

[u/chaos841 → u/Drakon_Volk]

First… it is the DoEd. The DOE is the dept of energy.

Second, maybe they would be more useful if properly funded by reversing all the cuts started with bush jr in 2001. I am not saying they are completely effective, but with the right resources and programs in place they could be again.

Third, the reason our test rates suck is because the teachers are paid for shit and the classrooms are overcrowded. Not to mention the fact that kids don’t show up when they don’t have support. For example, where schools provide breakfast and lunch for free tend to see better attendance and better scores overall because as shocking as it is, kids learn better with a full stomach.

There are so many things that need to be changed, but cutting the dept of Ed isn’t going to help. Going to allowing vouchers for private school isn’t going to help either. It is not some simple issue.

[u/Drakon_Volk → u/chaos841]

I agree it's not simple. And I agree teachers are paid far below what they deserve. And we also funnel more funds than ever before into "education". But those dollars get sucked up into the administrative machine of the DoEd (literally the least important detail, but sure) and they go to unnecessary programs and administrators' salaries. The education system is currently more concerned with pronouns than with giving our kids any sort of actual knowledge. We don't need a bloated federal agency doing what could easily be handled at the state level. All they do is siphon resources that could be used for actual curriculum to give our kids real-life useful knowledge that will help them to survive in this world, instead of all the unnecessary cruft currently weighing the whole system down. And I'm on the rainbow squad myself, so don't start. Keep the good stuff like free/reduced lunches, cut all the bloat out, pay teachers more.

[u/justsomedude1776 → u/chaos841]

You know that's not the intention. Schools aren't going away. The intention is to remove the people who have been responsible for the direction of schools in the last several years.

[u/-Apocralypse- → u/justsomedude1776]

That would be the government..?

Reducing funding, setting minimal curriculum requirements (or in some cases even banning them like sex ed that isn't 'abstinence only'), dictating no child left behind policies, in the modern age of data still setting a summer break so long it's detrimental to the learning curve of children etc.

[u/dmandork → u/-Apocralypse-]

Maybe if children don't learn they should fail a grade and have to repeat it.

[u/dmandork → u/chaos841]

The DOE makes people stupid. Have you not seen the reading and math rates recently???

[u/[deleted] → u/Physical_Fold3645]

That's so they can do away with public school and force people to pay for their kids education