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“Parental Rights” Is the New “Repeal Obamacare”
The Republican Party has found a new election marketing strategy based on the idea that parents ought to have some say in what their children are taught in taxpayer-funded public schools. The Washington Post (running interference for a Democrat candidate who gaffed on the issue) adamantly insists “Parents claim they have the right to shape their kids’ school curriculum. They don’t.” Democrats are in the position of claiming it’s completely right and proper to use public schools for social justice and racialist indoctrination, while at the same time calling it a made-up, “phony culture-war” issue that “nobody cares about.” (And then immediately announce the Kamala-Brandon “National Strategy on Gender Equality.“)
It’s kind of like in 2010 when the Republicans latched onto the unpopularity of Obamacare as their silver bullet to take back the House. They managed to take back the House, but they never actually followed through on the “Repeal and Replace” thing. So, it’s doubtful “parental rights” are anything more than another marketing gimmick.
Just like when Republicans run on Border Security and not only do nothing about it, but actively thwart anyone who tries. Or when Republicans run on “Fiscal Responsibility” and then sign off on budget deals giving Democrats more spending than they asked for. Or when they campaign on reducing the “size and scope” of Government; but it actually increased by 70% under George W. Bush who gave us the Patriot Act, the TSA, and No Child Left Behind. If you’re old enough, you may remember Republicans running on “Tort Reform.” That was almost thirty years ago, and no torts have been reformed. School choice has been in the party platform even longer, but didn’t even make it into NCLB.
If you want to see how serious the Bush-Republican-Establishment is about protecting parental rights in schools, consider how angry (sorry, I meant “deeply concerned”) the editors of The Dispatch and The Bulwark have been over Ron DeSantis and other Republican governors attempting to restrict the teaching of CRT. “That’s not who we are,” they huff. It’s simply ungentlemanly to stand in the way of Democrats using public schools for racialist indoctrination.
If the Republicans latch onto this issue, it may possibly win them some seats. And after, maybe, a symbolic vote or two, it can then be tossed aside so the party can get back to the business of keeping securing tax breaks and cheap labor for the only voters they actually care about: the big donors.
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Everything Moves Towards Communism All Of The Time™
Central planning begets more central planning until everything falls apart.
I don’t know anyone who likes 0bamacare.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think the way to heal a wound is to keep tearing it open.
That’s a decision best left to the wounded, don’t you think? There’s no way white people can legitimately make the choice to ‘not talk about it’ for black people in America.
The people tearing it open the most are not the wounded.
The suburban Republicans were relevant in that we denied Trump a victory. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson noted that Republican members of the Wisconsin State Assembly won by 50,000 votes, while Trump lost by 20,000 votes. That is 70,000 votes. We are not going to vote for Trump. Do you want to win? Dump Trump.
***Fa l s e***. Totally false. 100% false. This has been explained over and over to you. I don’t think you have once dealt with it head on.
You don’t have any public policy ideas in your head at all. Zero. It’s all boiler plate that you parrot.
What good does it do to keep going on like this?
And…this has what to do with what I said?
This won’t be interesting. lol
And thanks to you we have uncontrolled borders, unleashed inflation, skyrocketing fuel prices, rising Chinese aggression, and are on the verge of a massive spending bill that will unleash every left-wing Democrat fantasy of the past fifty years.
Congratulations on your “conservative” success.
Yabbut the world has so much respect for us now.
And Biden’s tweets are so genial and presidential. And it’s so nice that the cable news networks no longer spend all day attacking the president.
Yes, the Kristol Blue Republicans are truly in Nirvana.
The world mostly doesn’t really differentiate so much between Democrat and Republican administrations. The US is viewed as a country, not as a Democrat or Republican administration – and its reputation flows from its history of actions, no matter who ordered them.
Our media doesn’t really report on the Clinton/Obama wars. And if they do, it’s positively. They’re different wars because they have the correct think tanks behind them. This is very uniquely an American thing and it’s important to understand that perspective.
And this is anecdotal, but I’ve generally found that non-Americans are much more aware of geopolical issues. If John Bolton says something stupid on TV, that’s important because that could drastically change their day to day lives. Americans are very detached from that. It is what it is.
The Libya fiasco wasn’t covered properly? That’s horrifying.
I’m a bit sceptical about that. The same people turn a profit, regardless who initiated a war (Democrat or Republican) and the same people pay for it. Seems consistent.
Partly a size thing. Big countries are less aware of other places.
Perhaps also a news curation thing. Keep people busy arguing about pronouns and marriage definitions and they won’t ask too many probing questions about all that expenditure in Afghanistan under both Democrats and Republicans.
Yes. Is this for real? Or is this a joke? It sounds like a bot.