Stupid, Poor, Subsurvient
This type of person is what Government reliance produces. Since the Federal Government began growing and meddling in State and local matters, schools have gotten worse at teaching, real incomes have plummeted, and family self-reliance has become a fairy tale. The Government acts to make itself your daddy, and it cannot survive where We, the People, are strong.
The Department of Education was founded in 1979. Its mission is to promote student achievement. It has clearly failed in its mission. About one-fifth of our nation’s students can read AND do math at grade level (30% reading alone, 25% math alone). The Department of Education is not working. Divesting therefrom is the only reasonable course of action.
When the People are uneducated, they lack the capacity to compete in the job market. When the People are uneducated, they are unable to think for themselves and live an independent life. When the People are unable to compete for jobs and are dependent, here comes big daddy Government to save the day.
The Department of Education only gives Texas about $8 Billion - this is about $200 per Texan. Is it worth it? Of course not. This money comes with so many strings attached it is impossible to list them all. Interestingly, the webpage that lists the laws and regulations a State must follow after accepting Dept of Ed money states, “Please note that in the U.S., the federal role in education is limited. Because of the Tenth Amendment, most education policy is decided at the state and local levels.” It then goes on to list dozens of pages of Federal laws and regulations imposed upon the States. Gaslighting at its finest!
With all these regulations, a cost is incurred. The costs outweigh the $8 Billion especially when the cost to our children’s education is taken into account: a cost to which no dollar amount can be applied. With Dept of Ed money, the Federal Government assumes rights including but not limited to:
Impose regulations regarding instruction
Gather information about individual students and families (Surveillance)
Change, across the board, policies relating to “perceived” discrimination (Title IX)
Direct when teachers must (not may) refrain from informing a student’s parents
much more…
These strings that come attached to Federal money are not worth the $200 especially when our students are being instructed into stupidity and impotence. Texas is one of the top 10 economies in the entire world. We do not need the Federal money; let it go, clean up the Austin swamp, and we can direct the care and education of our own children.
Leftist Violence
Once again, an election year is upon us, and with it comes a summer of violence. The Victimhood Olympics (as any person on the Right side has undoubtedly already ascertained) leads only to death, destruction, and degeneration. If you contain at least one of the Infinity Stones of Wokeness, you are a victim, everyone else is an oppressor, and we all must bow before the glory and power of your victimhood.
To wit, the Infinity Stones of Wokeness are:
BIPOC
Woman 2.0 (Trans)
Religious Minority
Immigrant
Impoverished
Original Recipe Woman
What we have seen is the Leftists propping all these groups up against the group that has zero Infinity Stones of Wokeness: White, hetero-normative, Christian, American, middle-class, male (hereinafter, the “wokeless”). When this wokeless group is removed from an area, the Victimhood Olympics begins.
Without the common enemy of the wokeless - the common “oppressor” - the woke-protected begin to attack one another. There is a constant struggle for the title of “biggest victim” or “most oppressed” or “most powerful Infinity Stone”. We see this in schools, where blacks and LGBTQ+ fight each other with impunity because authorities don’t know if they can prosecute either group. We see this on college campuses where two religious minorities are battling it out as I write this post because the wokeless are no longer a common enemy. We saw this play out in the Courts when Asian Americans fought to be treated the same as blacks when it comes to admissions. We saw this in COVID when violence against Asians increased at the same time as George Floyd’s protests were happening: the media had to choose a battle and they chose the blacks over the Asians. We see this when a black Conservative says “close the border” and gets lambasted for it while Barack Obama literally issued an executive order to send military troops to secure the border just a decade ago.
The Left has to fight someone, anyone at all, at all times, even if it means fighting each other.
The issue is that installing the word “victim” rather than the word “victor” within someone’s self-assessment creates an ever-increasing need for attention and blaming the other. The logical conclusion is exactly what we are seeing, where identity politics has gone so far that everyone who buys into it believes they are alone and everyone else is against them. It is a push away from accountability and toward blame assignment.
Why ever would Leftist leaders do this? It seems insane, but it does not appear to be so. Lonely people do not have any protection. The greatest threat to Government is a strong family; the second greatest threat to Government is a strong community. If I help my cousin and my neighbor, the Government need not know of their plight. If I ignore my follows’ suffering, he has nowhere to turn but Government. Once one becomes dependent upon Government, one’s children will learn this dependence, and a generational curse falls upon the family.
Biden has boasted about the economy. Most of the progress was due to allowing big tech to run slip-shod over everyone else. Another factor is the reopening of offices that were closed due to COVID. The most striking jobs increase factor is the Biden administration itself: 25% of new jobs under the Biden Administration are Government jobs. This is the point. Tearing American from American forces Americans into the arms of Government (away from Family and Community) for protection, support, and solace. The more people who request Government, the more Government gets created.
The Infinity Stones of Wokeness are a Ponzi scheme to siphon money from We, the People, into Government hands. The Biden Administration promises political capital in exchange for proselytizing to the Left.