Why Are Republicans Planning to Tax University Endowments More Heavily Than Other Forms of Private Wealth?

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2. All of these assaults are assaults on education itself

Higher education has been a Republican target for years with claims that universities and Marxist professors are poisoning the minds of their students. In reality? The right-wing wants to stop the instruction of critical-thinking, ideas outside their own ideology. Citizens who can think for themselves are a threat to ideological propaganda and control. An anti-intellectual movement has been afoot for decades. Education, art, culture. The far-right wants to shape, promote and control it all.

Much easier to control an uneducated, unenlightened population. Free-thinking is a no-no for authoritarian cults. Only Big Daddy has the answers, or:

Those that control the minds of the young control the future.