Installing pure propaganda into children's education was the brainchild of one of the most infamous Nazis, Josep Goebbels minister of Propaganda in Germany during WW II.
In an absolute reverse of reality children in Florida will be watching videos that compare climate activists to Nazis!
They're going to be taught that solar and wind energy is environmentally ruinous, and that current global heating is part of natural long-term cycles.
In other words... lies, misinformation, and blatant propaganda promoting extreme conservative views will be the new norm in Florida's school systems.
How did this happen?
There's an extreme national conservative group called the Prager University Foundation which produces materials on science, history, gender and other topics that distort truth.
Experts who have studied the videos and other PragerU output have warned that many of Florida's 3 million public school children will be at risk of being exposed to rightwing indoctrination that conforms to the worldview of the organization's funders.
It's propaganda 101.
Equating people concerned about climate change with Nazis can have long-term impact on young impressionable people.
Let's get something straight here. Prager is NOT an academic institution and does not confer degrees. Prager is a right-wing millionaire who promotes an authoritarian agenda.
The group is funded by two brothers who are notorious climate deniers, Dan and Farris Wilks, who happen to be petroleum industry businessmen. No bias there eh?
This is the first time these videos have infected a school system in America, and it won't be the last if this nefarious group has its way.
According to Jill Simonian, director of outreach at PragerUKids, the youth arm of the organization, "More states will follow Florida. I'm applauding. This is a step in the right direction."
It's a step in the wrong direction if you believe in democracy, science, and the truth.
You know why this was possible in Florida?
Gov. Ron DeSantis is infamous for his denial of climate change, calling it "leftwing stuff." He's also full MAGA and willing to subvert democracy at every turn.
Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, said "that the irony in the decision by DeSantis' administration to allow the videos "is that this gambit would make Goebbels himself blush."
"For we have a politician who regularly trades in antisemitic and racist, misogynistic and homophobic tropes promoting agenda-driven disinformation into actual science to further the agenda of the fossil fuel interests funding him and his party," Mann explained.
What use to be the Republican party is now a nest of power-hungry cretins who have embraced fascism openly and are attacking our democracy at every turn. Everything from slavery was good to denying science is part of Prager's un-American agenda.
Now it's up to the parents in Florida to fight back against this propaganda curriculum being shoved down their children's throats.
If they care about telling the truth about our planet and many other subjects being perverted to promote fascism, they need to organizer and protest. Their children are the Guina pigs for a new wave of authoritarianism that's trying to sweep the country.
As it stands, I hope the rest of the states are watching what's happening in Florida because fascism in their school systems will be the next step in this insidious plot.
