it s not taught in k-12. when i think is so important in that conversation with senator hughes there is that, you know, i m asking him to grapple with, right, the tangible impacts that a law that he s just authored that has been passed is now having on people s lives. and he s repeating language in the bill and repeating beliefs about what he thinks is happening in the classroom and i m trying to contrast that with, here s what s actually happening, here is what teachers say they re experiencing, here is an educator about to lose his job, and it s not clear that what you re describing ever happened, in colleyville, the community at hand, or any other part of texas, chuck. he keeps saying don t look at other parts of the country. but wasn t this cookie cutter legislation? it was. and these bills, if you look at the language of the bills in states all over the country, they are very closely aligned. i mean, there s very much copy cat language saying, to make sure students don t end u
group like that if you don t take them seriously and take it on. well, that was going to be my question is what can we do about it. right, they also have these organizations like alec, the american legislative exchange council that are also heavily involved in pushing cookie cutter legislation. there is that heritage action organization that they have a plan with alec to write voter suppression bills. if you just poll things like saving the planet from doom, and we are at this tipping point in terms of saving the planet from climate doom, we don t do anything, we re going to get past the point where we can stop it. most people want to do something about it and they say no, you cannot. then they say no, you cannot vote because they know the majority would vote to save the planet. so us little folks out here who are not multi billionaires and just want our planet to continue and want us to be a democracy, what the hell can we do about it when people like manchin who has