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I Agree with Mike Pompeo
Mike Pompeo has stated that those who have destroyed our public education system present the greatest danger to the American Republic and that one of the leaders of that effort, Randi Weingarten, is the most dangerous person in the world.
I agree with Pompeo’s assessment. He has a background that enables him to make such an assessment with expertise. He knows where the threats are.
I sensed there was a major problem in the works when the Department of Education was created under President Carter in 1979. It has been clear now for some time that this will be our downfall unless we change it. Governor DeSantis is working to take back the responsibility for public education oversight in Florida.
Why I place some trust in Mike Pompeo.
He is a Christian.
He is intelligent.
He has wide-ranging experience:
Military
Elected position-Congressman
CIA Director
Secretary of State
And see this post for more:
Behind the Failed Red Wave Lies an Urgent Warning
At least under earlier forms of slavery those enslaved knew they were slaves, I think.
Here’s a short excerpt from that post:
“Public schools are bombarding children with a message about the importance of voting. Civics education favored by schools is no longer about the three branches of government or checks and balances. Nor is it about the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights or the dangers of Communism. Being drilled into students is that in the interest of social justice and in the interest of saving Democracy, you must vote.
In a post on the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) website entitled, “Civic education is vital to saving our democracy,” AFT President Randi Weingarten summed up this sentiment:
“Teaching civics is vital to ensuring that our democracy in America survives and to ensuring that students see themselves as having a role and a voice in our country… It’s how we lay the groundwork for a future generation that’s engaged, that’s informed and that’s empowered.”
During the last Presidential term, and especially during the Covid Pandemic, we were bombarded with warnings about disinformation on social media and in almost all information criticizing government medical dictates,
The above description of what is actually taught about civics in public schools and Weingarten’s quote shows that the schools are just one massive outlet for disinformation and brainwashing and that is having a massive effect falsely discrediting MAGA Republicans.
I hope Pompeo’s statement pushes this to the front of the action agenda nationwide.
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“When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.” – Al Shanker, President of the United Federation of Teachers, 1965-1985
Over the years, people have denied that he said this and documentation seems illusive. However, contemporaries of Shanker have acknowledged that it sounds like something he would have said. And apparently, his ethos has permeated all of the teaching unions.
I put this comment in the OP.
I put this comment in the OP.
CIA director 2017 -18.
He can utter truthful things.
Trust him ? Hell no !
I said some. I understand what you refer to and I had questions at the time and they have not disappeared. I also can see how deeply rooted the traitorous activity is in the intelligence agencies and I’m not convinced someone in the Directors slot at CIA can fix it, particularly with traitorous acts going on all over the Executive Branch. The problem goes deep.
I agree mostly. The reason I do not trust him. Why does he not rail about the corruption of the CIA and the FBI ?
I believe because he is part of it.
The problem goes so deep that I would say that government corruption is our worst enemy and I am suspicious of anyone who doesn’t say that corruption is a huge problem. I very much like what Pompeo has to say on his Twitter account, but I do not see anything about corruption in the CIA or DOS. I do agree that Randi W. is evil.
The corruption is all over the federal government and it must have been really difficult in those first two years to figure out what exactly was going on. We all knew the high-level CIA and FBI officials from the Obama Administration were corrupt but little about how embedded this was into the lower echelons. The Attorney General was paralyzed with respect to this issue and I suspect with the scope of the Russia Hoax inquiry that much of the rest of government was as well. Then Bill Barr didn’t help that much with the intel part and he must have had some knowledge from his experience there. But he was a Bushie. This is not a small thing to overcome, it is really big, and involves a big chunk of establishment Republicans.
One more thing I will add here that goes over and above the civics issues used in the brainwashing education process. That is the work done inside the schools in an effort to discredit the family and religion. This has been very successful and we are now witnessing the effects in federal legislation that goes against First Amendment guarantees. Even though these laws are likely unconstitutional they will likely be effective. Same with the Executive Branch working with non-government entities to censor speech.
Our younger voters are totally oblivious to these conditions and effects.
Break the hold of government schools by abolishing compulsory schooling. Only conservatives could be stubborn enough to say, generation after generation, in the face of all logic and evidence, that inherently statist institutions like government schools (and government-funded colleges – and the media) should be “reformed”. Folks, they’re not that into you. Get rid of them.
I’ve been saying for almost 30 years that the most important reform we should make is to abolish public schools, but it seems odd that Pompeo and you present teaching about the right to vote as a problem. It’s a bad thing to complain about and I think is a losing argument.
Lets go this far. Of all the men with “CIA Director” on their CVs, he’s the most trustworthy…
It would seem odd that the teacher’s union would be the most dangerous organization in the world to the Republic. But when you think of it, the threat Islamic Fundamentalists have been so anemic that the FBI has been forced to run entrapment operations on mentally defective individuals in order to generate arrests, headlines and justifications for their budgets.
From an interview published in Jan 2013:
Considering the growth in the FBI’s budget, and the lack of supervision, even the reasonable assumptions of what the FBI maybe doing are terrifying.
So yes, the miseducation and indoctrination of children maybe the existential threat to the republic.
The above quote was Trevor Aaronson, in 2013 promoting his book “The Terror Factory”. I didnt want to post a link, because the interview was published by (wait for it … ) “Mother Jones” Back in the olden days, when liberals where allowed to be critical of the FBI or the government in general…
I do not understand why we continue to allow Teachers Unions so much power. Turn schools over to parents and teachers, but individually, make them compete with each other for students. Fund it all through the tax system. New Zealand went from the bottom of Western Education where we are now, to the top just behind Singapore in one year by turning schools over to parents and teachers. The teachers called the shots, but parents chose the schools and all schools competed with each other for students. Schools with lousy teachers failed and fired lousy teachers. They and parent know which teachers are good. Why do we assume that schools should have been the last socialist strong hold, and now are the first.
@skyler You don’t cite your specific reference, I’m guessing it’s this:
“Public schools are bombarding children with a message about the importance of voting. Civics education favored by schools is no longer about the three branches of government or checks and balances. Nor is it about the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights or the dangers of Communism. Being drilled into students is that in the interest of social justice and in the interest of saving Democracy, you must vote.”
That is from the other R> post cited in the OP.
In that case, your criticism that Pompeo and I are complaining that teaching about the right to vote is a bad thing is completely out of context. In my opinion, our complaint is encapsulated in the quote by describing what is being taught as civics is “woke” ideology and socialism presented by the teachers’ union. Not much there about every individual’s right to liberty being God-given.
If we don’t want teachers unions (and I don’t) we need to make schools and school districts smaller so that they can be more directly responsible to parents and teachers. Monster school districts will result in teachers unions in some form or other.
It’s not quite as simple as that, but that’s a good part of it.
Not actually a high bar.
And I would say he “presents himself as the most trustworthy”.
This did not happen. Please stop saying it. It undermines your point.
I’ve heard several times with I Walton has said. If it’s not true, what is the truth of it?
This comment has some links.
@iwalton often comments but seldom engages further so I’m guessing that iwalton didn’t see @genferei‘s comment previously.
I read the dehanz.net.au report that was linked in that report, and didn’t see anything that would dissuade me from liking what New Zealand has done. I don’t know about the bottom-to-top claim, though. It didn’t say anything about that.