Heather Cox Richardson

Yes, for real.

Like, can you write that in really big letters?

For real this time?

Okay, not messing around.

Okay, so we'll start with that.

Now, the next thing I want on there is we must protect the environment.

And I don't care what language you use that with.

I don't just mean we're protecting the Grand Canyon.

I mean that we have to have clean air, clean water, and we have to take care of the climate.

Yeah, definitely getting money out of politics.

Yes, and I'll tell you why.

We have fundamental public education, and we could actually argue about what ages that goes to.

But the reason that that matters in a foundational document is because if you think about democracy—

a democracy depends on an educated populace.

It just has to have one.

And one of the ways that our democracy has been hamstrung is by the destruction of public education.

So this is not like saying, this is not a luxury, which is one of the ways that the radical right has framed it.

It's actually a necessity in a democracy to have

robust public education for everybody.

And that, of course, is going to cut deeply into the whole right-wing voucher movement, which is designed to destroy public education and which is getting real teeth in a number of Republican-dominated states.