A sign of the times: in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, the Democrat, Terry McAuliffe, is brazenly telling voters: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Presumably, parents should just sit back, relax, and let their children be indoctrinated at will, including with the latest “anti-racist” racism.
Of course, we’re being assailed on many fronts. Things seem to be cracking up faster than ever, which is the theme of a recent Legal Insurrection post, “Gradually and Then Suddenly,” published on the blog’s thirteenth anniversary.
William Jacobson argues that for years now, “all the ‘progressive’ pieces were in place but needed a spark to burn the house down.”
The spark was the death of George Floyd in May 2020, followed by “state-sanctioned lawlessness, rioting, and looting; a vicious cultural purge from academia to corporations to the military to historical monuments; gaslighting and burying of news by a corrupt and dishonest mainstream corporate media and Big Tech; and the solidification of our post-truth world . . . where telling facts some people don’t like can get you fired, denounced, and boycotted.”
In addition to fighting back, Jacobson advises that we prep for the worst. This means, for one thing, stocking up on food with a long shelf life. (The preppers were “early,” not wrong.) We should also rely more on each other rather than on institutions.
Jacobson provides a bonus tip (one I’ve also advised): If at all possible, get your kids the heck out of the public schools.
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4 replies on “Burning Down the House”
Public schools cannot be fixed.
Whatever victories gained trying to fix public schools will need to be monitored beyond the capacity of hundreds of volunteers. The teacher unions and their allies such as the ACLU own government schools. They will quickly take back any lost ground and they will not hesitate to do it in an under-handed manner while your group operates honestly and ethically.
I am a retired teacher and unequivocally proclaim that there is no hope for America as long as Christians and conservatives allow their children to be indoctrinated in the public schools. We must rescue our children!
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Paul, you are taking McAuliffe’s comment totally out of context. Be more careful. (for the record, I fought the carpetbagger McAuliffe for 4 years over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and am I’m not in the least sympathetic to his candidacy, just do better).…
doug, I’ve read accounts from sources that lean hard in support of the Democratic Party, and these accounts don’t make it seem that Paul took things out of context. But perhaps Paul and I have none-the-less been misled. Please supply what you believe to be the relevant, missing context.