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one of the reasons all politicians are so keen on restricting education, closing libraries, removing arts funding etc...
FTFY
Lets not pretend it's just the right that do this. It was Labour who abolished the assisted places scheme, student grants and introduced university fees, all policies designed to keep the poor uneducated.
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Further to that, one of the reasons Conservatives, Republicans et al. are so keen on restricting education, closing libraries, removing arts funding etc is that they rely on people being stupid enough to fall for their lies and vote against their own interests.
Look at the core UKIP support as an example. They need to keep people uneducated for their parties to survive. They need to lack critical thinking and evaluating skills, they need to lack a basic understanding of politics or economics, they need to lack an ability to recognise patterns from history or to question inconsistencies.
They need to to make sure people distrust independent experts.