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Kim Klacik is a Republican running for Congress in Baltimore, and she has a few things to say. Warning: pearl clutchers should have pearls handy before watching this campaign ad:
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As you were.
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The world views – on the part of black voters – might be “real” but they are not accurate.
This.
Inner city blacks may be the worst educated voting demographic in the US, and probably the most ill-informed.
Large percentages still believe the Tawana Brawley hoax, and the Duke lacrosse team hoax, and the “hands up don’t shoot“ hoax, and the Trayvon Martin hoax.
Corrupt “community leaders” who are sold out to the Democratic Party can routinely persuade them to vote against their own interests.
I remember reading in the New York Times, years ago, about a proposal in Chicago to provide scholarships to several thousand poor black kids so they could go to good schools. The Democratic Party was able to mobilize and get the poor black welfare mothers whose children would have benefited from the program to oppose it.
I would like to make another appeal: it’s the Democrat Party. NOT the DemocratIC Party.
You mean the Demoncrat Party?
That works too. It grates on me that co-opting the term DemocratIC probably gives them some mileage with some people who take that to mean the “other side” – i.e., us! – doesn’t believe in elections, etc.
Back in High School, there was one guy I knew that I joked around with a lot, we said stuff like “Demonic Demagogues” for the Dems and “Repulsive Reptiles” for the Reps. When he once said “give me a wild guess” and I waved my arms and yelled “GUESS!!!!” we laughed our butts off for like 20 minutes.
And of course “a rough guess” was “guess” said like you had a bad sore throat or something…
@kedavis — The Democrats have been referring to themselves as “Democratic” for more than 200 years, ever since they were the Democratic Republicans.
Quite true, they pretty consistently oppose democracy; but then the leading fascist organization of our time calls itself “Antifa”.
Which is part of my point. Too many people – probably especially minorities who end up damaging themselves as a result – believe things like that anyone who calls themselves DemocratIC must ipso facto be better than someone who says they’re a Republican, that someone who says they’re/call themselves “anti-fascist” must actually be anti-fascist, that the NAACP is actually for the ADVANCEMENT of “colored people,” and so forth.
I think this is a perfect example of my point. The typical claim of Democrats is that scholarships, charter schools, education grants, etc…divert money away from public schools and would make an already bad situation worse. Given that most/all public schools are funded based on butts in seats, this is actually a fair point to make. Now you can argue, and I would agree with you, that the benefits outweigh the costs and that the inner city schools deserve to be defunded but that’s the crux of the debate. If you put yourselves in the shoes of those black welfare mothers I can certainly understand how a message of “those rascally Republicans are trying to defund your schools” would sell. It’s no different than when Trump goes to working class Pennsylvania and sells the idea that Democrats want to ship jobs to China and let illegal immigrants take over the ones that are left.
Taxpayer money is devoted to ‘public education’ not ‘public schools’
There is a difference, very important distinction between the two.
Charter schools are funded by taxpayers and often share space with traditional public schools.
Isn’t it different when what the Dems say is false, but what the Reps say is true?
Thomas Sowell has written a new book and made several interview appearances – including on The Ricochet Podcast – about this.
The problem with failing public schools is not money.
The 2 biggest problems are:
Not sure who outside conservatives believe that.
Leftists control tv and education. Those facts are hard to come by.
#MeToo
We proved this on Ricochet about a decade ago.
1964 Civil Rights act passed because of GOP support.
Without GOP support, Senate could not break filibuster.
Also, railroad companies in the South were not happy about Plessy vs Ferguson. Building separate but ‘equal’ compartments decreased their profit per passenger.
I guess Ricochet has zero influence on the issue of public education?
you still don’t get it. We live in a post fact world. It is all about the feels. In today’s world all things bad are because of racist GOP, all things good is because of the progressive Democrats. Even Abraham Lincoln is a Democrat by most people understanding and the Democrats got rid of Jim Crow and created the civil rights for blacks. The GOP is trying to put blacks back into chains. The GOP are the party of the KKK and white supremacy.
No, it’s not a fair point to make:
Fewer butts in seats mean lower costs to the public schools. The cost-per-pupil stays roughly constant.
Yes, and as I understand it, at least where I’ve lived before, the amount taken out for each child going to a charter school, is LESS than the full amount the public schools receive per student. Which means that it’s actually BETTER for the public schools if a student leaves, their effective income-per-student goes UP; in fact if ALL of the public school students left for charter schools, the public schools would still receive money while having NO STUDENTS.
Ah, okay. In that case, a sufficiently corrupt school administration would be interested in limiting charter schools, both because they’re skimming a percentage off the incoming revenue stream, and the power of having a monopoly.
See Larry Elder. Every black family had a copy of Ebony magazine on display in their home/apartment. Not one conservative black has ever been featured, a real “black out” of Supreme Court Justice Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, . . .
Nighty night… 9 million views.
Well that and they like having as many people as possible working for them, since that increases THEIR pay. Fewer teachers under them – perhaps both figuratively and literally – means less supervisory status for them, and less salary. Plus just the power of feeling like they’re in charge of a lot of people.
I want a picture of the coworker.
Convincing them on who is speaking the truth is the trick.
Just remember, you can’t reason people out of a position they weren’t reasoned into.
With sayings like “those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach,” are we surprised?
Rs don’t even let their daughters teach, even though it is an incredibly great career for women aspiring to be mothers to have.