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PBS Host on Trump PLAN to Make US DUMB | PoliticsGirl

2025-08-13 News & Politics
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Understanding Failed Civics Education and Media Control

Discover why basic knowledge of American government is suppressed by design and learn how accessible education combats authoritarian trends.

Short Summary

  • Identify that weak civics education is a deliberate, long-term strategy to keep the public disempowered.
  • Analyze the devastating impact of defunding public broadcasting (NPR/PBS) on essential local news and disaster alerts.
  • Examine modern authoritarian tactics, including media control via strategic settlements and pressure on large corporations.
  • Ben Sheen’s show, Civics Made Easy, provides the necessary toolkit to understand and influence a complex system.

This episode features Ben Sheen discussing the systemic erasure of civics from schools and the subsequent political vulnerability created. We explore the hypocrisy of defunding public media while witnessing mainstream outlets bow to political pressure, framed within a larger pattern of centralizing control over information.

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Don’t feel bad if you don’t know how the government works. It’s by design. Today we talk to the Host of PBS’s Civics Made Easy about the importance of offering Americans the kind of knowledge we should have but don’t, on a network that the government should fund, but won’t. Ben wants us to, “Get caught up together” and Trump wants us as stupid as possible. This episode is sponsored by… https://sundaysfordogs.com/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl IQBar: Text PG to 64000 https://lolablankets.com code: politicsgirl https://calm.com/politicsgirl As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free and it, and the the rants delivered directly to your inbox so even if we’re shut out of social media, you’ll still get access to the most highly researched, factual information available. Independent media needs your support now more than ever. Go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://linktr.ee/thatbensheehan https://www.pbs.org/show/civics-made-easy/ Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl

Top Comments (10)

@Izzydelarosa-t6l 2025-08-13

I blame everyone who put him back in power, follow the money.

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@Robrulz666icloud 2025-08-13

Watching from Australia as an American 🇺🇸 I am so proud we still have the Meidas mighty team fighting for our democracy 💙🇺🇸🇦🇺💙 Let’s go America ❤️

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@Big_dawgg_37 2025-08-13

Education is critical.

45 2 replies
@lcgyzma2 2025-08-13

Go away, Donald Trump, now leave pbs kids alone!

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@Debra_Bee87 2025-08-13

Misery loves company….in Trumps case ignorance loves company.

39 2 replies
@melvinleathers5741 2025-08-13

LOCK. Trump. Up. Immediately

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@natalieswanson2394 2025-08-13

No one can be as dumb as Trump! Absolutely no one!

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@tedbrooks7020 2025-08-13

You can’t have a dictatorship with free local press..to establish the vertical of power..like in Russia.. you need full control of the media. Goodbye democracy. Aussie Ted

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@Angelicus-p5p 2025-08-13

Back when he was sworn in I said how do you get your population to buckle to your will? Poverty, famine, bad health, poor education, fear…how’s he doing so far?

21 1 replies
@nolapettett4969 2025-08-13

Trump is just being Putin.

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