I have a conservative neighbor who believes DeVos is a hero who truly cares about children of color. It’s why she’s such a tireless advocate of school choice, which is the only solution for our failing public schools and evil teachers’ unions. Stuff like this only plays right into the preconceptions of people like…

How has she not walked out of just about every public speaking opportunity she’s had and immediately wanted to resign? Like Milli Vanilli or something, just shamed out of the spotlight? It’s not like she needs the money or wants the attention. Honestly, I have no idea what she’s doing this.

They don’t care. Had someone say to me the other day that she doesn’t care about politics because it doesn’t affect her (ha! How privileged). I imagine that’s how most people feel about the Dept. of Education.

My first thought exactly.

Why isn’t that well-dressed black person clutching a bible and praying to Jesus* for me to pay attention to her needs?

How anyone hasn’t seen how absolutely disastrous this woman is in public yet is moronic. Or maybe they do and just don’t care?

“Wait wait wait, we’re educating black kids now? How long has this been going on and why didn’t anyone tell me” —Betsy DeVos

Yeah, but that’s a “He beat me so bad he knocked my teeth out and my retinas loose, but deep down I know he’s sorry. He’s just been going through a lot of stress lately,” kind of ‘relationship.’

The devil that you know vs. the devil that you don’t know? Change is scary. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt... FUD is all you need, in the new GOP world.

I am baffled why the people of West Virginia Coal Country feel such loyalty to the coal companies. In the past century the coal companies have poisoned their landscape, destroyed their natural beauty, set fire to the earth itself, terminally affected the health of both their adults and children. They condemned their…

Meanwhile far-right extremists seem to get nowhere near the same level of attention, despite a neo-Nazi group being involved in actual deaths (Atomwaffen). It doesn’t seem like they’re watching the social media of violent far-right activists. Hell they won’t even talk about them as a threat, unlike “black identity…

YES! God yes! Enthusiastically trading Carter in for Reagan was both an indictment of the American people and the best predictor of our current circumstance.

screw that....been using this for almost 40 years....

The old “It’s just a joke, don’t you get it?” defense.

Fair enough. But, when i say affluent whites i’m not thinking of the 55+ crowd. It’s the 30-40 crowd, college educated small business owners or corporate management folks. And what i hear from them is that “they” are all a bunch of “whiners”. That attitude is ubiquitous.

For every one that goes down, another few celebrate their birthdays and get nostalgic for a simpler time. Then people tell them the time they’re thinking of was never really that simple. Now they’re nostalgic, a bit pissed, and looking for some validation

well yeah, Florida’s age demo is 55+ lol.

It’s always “news” until the libel/defamation suits. Then suddenly it’s “entertainment.”

Can’t speak to the stats but here in sunny FL it’s on everywhere. It’s like crack for the affluent whites.

Isn’t Fox News age demo like 55 and up?