[K3CAL] The Dumbing Down of America - The next steps underway

[Bob Sheskin]

CARA has always been a ham radio club and a social club at least in the 
15 or so years  I have been a member.  The reflector has been around 
since then, I know as I originally set it up.  In the past other non-ham 
but impacts us as people posts have been made.  I do not think a hobby 
club about communication should stifle a member who has impactful 
information to communicate. Discord is brand new and I am sure many have 
not yet ventured over there, maybe down the road. Currently this is the 
club's main avenue for disseminating information.

*73, Bob N3PPH *

On 4/30/26 10:26 AM, dwightcgordon--- via K3CAL wrote:
> While I agree, what does this have to do with radio or club 
> communications? There is a discord server that would be more 
> approapriate for this sort of discussion I'd rather not fill my 
> primary email with political or opinion based email chains. Thanks.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Thursday, 04/30/26 at 09:41 N5WTA N5WTA via K3CAL 
> <k3cal at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>     While others may not, I appreciate the email. Makes me feel less
>     like a conspiracy theorist/nut job and more like the thinker I
>     thought I was lol. I see the writing on the wall and have noticed
>     communistic style oppression in the world’s leading “democracy”.
>     Humans spent more time teaching dogs to hunt than women to read at
>     one point. Same with slavery. IBut there has also been a lot of
>     painting anti fascist groups as terrorist because people don’t
>     know what antifa stands for.  It’s sad.
>
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>     Regards,
>     Johnathan Ibert
>
>>     On Apr 30, 2026, at 9:08 AM, Shawn Donley <n3ae at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>     
>>     Please forgive the political nature of this email but I find
>>     these recent events to be very disturbing.  Not sure people know
>>     what's going on.
>>     President Trump’s FY2027 budget request
>>     <https://www.nasa.gov/fiscal-year-2027-budget-request/> would cut
>>     NASA by $5.6 billion, with the deepest reductions falling on
>>     science and STEM education while leaving Artemis and a planned
>>     lunar base camp funded through prior appropriations. The request
>>     would cut the Science Mission Directorate by roughly 50%,
>>     terminate 27 operating missions, cancel 26 missions in
>>     development <https://www.planetary.org/save-nasa-science> and
>>     zero out the Office of STEM Engagement, pushing science funding
>>     more than $1 billion below 2007 levels.
>>     Senate hearing largely splits on party lines over proposed $5.6
>>     billion NASA cut
>>     <https://www.rdworldonline.com/senate-largely-hearing-splits-on-party-lines-over-5-6-billion-nasa-cut/?spMailingID=196397&puid=961195&E=961195>
>>
>>     -----  AND ----
>>     Trump fired all 22 members of the NSF’s advisory board on Friday,
>>     possibly making budget cuts easier to execute.
>>     Trump fired all 22 members of the NSF’s advisory board
>>     <https://www.rdworldonline.com/trump-fired-all-22-members-of-the-nsfs-advisory-board-possibly-making-budget-cuts-easier-to-execute/?spMailingID=196397&puid=961195&E=961195>
>>
>>     Final Thought:
>>     An uneducated populace is generally easier to control,
>>     manipulate, and subjugate because they may lack the critical
>>     thinking skills to question authority or recognize mistreatment.
>>     Historically, this concept is often summarized by the notion that
>>     while education makes a people easy to lead, it makes them
>>     difficult to drive, govern, or enslave.
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