'No state has struggled more': Residents of 'Trump stronghold' blame him for epic downturn

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77. An an Iowa captive in blue dot Iowa City -- I have little sympathy for them as this has been more than 20 years coming

Iowa was once home to one of the best public school systems in the USA. The schools were well funded and for decades were scored among the highest on NAEP, ACT/SAT, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, etc.

TBH, the one good thing about moving here was better schools than any school district I could afford to live in when I was in Ohio.

but in the dozen or so years that I have lived here, the republican supermajority has moved Iowa from the pinnacle of education to funding students at rates lower than the deep south. They have sought to privatize and use vouchers to allow rich white folks to pull $$ from public schools. They rushed back to in-person schooling as a loyalty message to Mango Mussolini and Iowa had one of the highest death per capita rates during covid as kids brought it home and killed their grandparents.

They refuse to regulate how much pig feces goes into the watershed, because farmers (meaning large corporate collectives who have ruined the environment). The largest non-farming industry in the state is green energy and they keep electing people who are trying to kill it.

Zero sympathy for these idiots. I know it is going to make my life worse as well. But they voted for this.