Posted on 06/30/2021 5:08:36 PM PDT by Twotone
I spent the first 12 years of my life in rural Florida, where my best friend was a black boy from Trinidad. Like most other children, the two of us didn’t talk about race or fret about our obvious differences. That’s despite having grown up in the South, where segregation was hardly a distant memory. We just enjoyed playing together and nerding out over old episodes of “Star Trek.”
How times have changed.
For longer than many have realized, the Left has been quietly working to indoctrinate young minds into believing that our country is built on discrimination. They say all of America’s institutions and ideas like private property, capitalism, and constitutionally-protected rights are racist at their core and must be replaced. This is the social justice agenda, now being elevated through much-discussed critical theories that advocates want to use to teach children to view themselves as either oppressed or oppressors.
The time to rescue a generation of young Americans from this indoctrination is now. We must remind them that our foundational principles are the ones that have made America the greatest country on earth where opportunities abound for everyone, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin.
Everyone plays a role in saving our country, and some roles are bigger than others. Gov. Brad Little has a big role—he appoints seven of the eight members of the State Board of Education (SBOE). However, Little’s SBOE has done nothing to stop the infusion of critical race theory in our state’s education system. In fact, members of Little’s SBOE falsely claim there’s no evidence of critical race theory or social justice indoctrination in the public schools, colleges, and universities the board oversees.
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Using critical race theory as a distraction from Brad Little’s coronavirus game of allowing mask rules in the local communities of Idaho plus local government buildings and schools isn’t cutting it.
Little also presided over the shut down of businesses in Idaho last year in the name of the coronavirus businesses like restaurants.
His own Lt. Governor tried to unmask the school children of Idaho when Little was out of the state and then he returned to rescind her order ending local government-school mask orders.
Brad Little is a proven coronavirus tyrant and he even went so far as to label protesters last December opposing the Boise area mask order as extremists and “haters”.
People displaying Trump flags among other things.’
Little has plenty of challengers in the primary next year (to split the votes).
That includes Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin and Ammon Bundy who have both challenged Little on his coronavirus song and dance of restricting liberty.
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DeSantis pioneered Florida Deregathon — a one-day summit in which agency heads targeted red tape, especially in occupational licensing. While eye surgeons and airline pilots should certify their competence, why do nail polishers and boxing timekeepers need Tallahassee’s permission to work? Florida’s 1,200-hour training requirement for new barbers, for instance, stymies competition by boosting costs and headaches for new entrants.
DeSantis summoned the chiefs of 23 professional-licensing boards to Orlando to “discuss, debate, identify and recommend substantive regulations that can be targeted for immediate elimination,” as his letter told these officials. “I see this event as a first step toward creating a regulatory climate as welcoming as the Florida sunshine.”
• DeSantis signed an executive order instructing the commissioner of education to “eliminate Common Core (Florida Standards) and ensure we return to the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic” and “equip high school graduates with sufficient knowledge of America’s civics, particularly the principles reflected in the United States Constitution, so as to be capable of discharging the responsibilities associated with American citizenship.” DeSantis also supports legislation to expand school vouchers.
• DeSantis demands accountability. He accepted the resignation of Broward County elections director Brenda Snipes and Susan Bucher, her Palm Beach County counterpart, for their spectacular incompetence, if not corruption. DeSantis called Bucher’s operation “the Keystone Kops of election administration.”
He also sacked Broward County sheriff Scott Israel for totally bungling the deadly Parkland mass shooting in February 2018, then exacerbating that toxic failure with a deluge of finger-pointing and a drought of self-criticism.
• DeSantis replaced the entire South Florida Water Management District with appointees not beholden to the heavily subsidized sugar industry — a notorious polluter whose fertilizer, pesticides, and other agrochemicals befoul Florida’s waterways. DeSantis was one of only three members of Florida’s 27-member U.S. House delegation who voted last May to curb the disastrous sugar program. DeSantis’s appointees should make Big Sugar clean up its bitter harvest.
• DeSantis’s tax proposal is modest, but it steers levies the right way: down. His budget cuts taxes $335 million: $289.7 million in property-tax reductions; a three-day, $39.5 million back-to-school sales-tax holiday; and a one-week, $5.8 million disaster-preparedness sales-tax holiday before hurricane season.
It cannot be stressed enough that DeSantis did all of the above in just the first two months of his governorship, during which we can already see a key contrast between him and Trump: DeSantis came in and quickly recognized the need to fire holdovers before they could do additional damage.
Since then, DeSantis has signed laws cutting more taxes, cutting spending, strengthening election security, pioneering legal remedies to internet censorship, banning sanctuary cities, requiring parental consent for minors’ abortions, keeping males who claim to be female out of women’s athletic programs, toughening penalties for riot-related offenses, banning localities from restricting Second Amendment rights, allowing more teachers to undergo training to carry guns on school grounds, mandating E-Verify for public employers and government contractors (while advocating for it to be applied to the private sector as well), banning anti-Semitic propaganda in public education, banning eco-radicals at the local level from giving the environment legal rights (yes, that’s a thing leftists actually want to do), cracking down on foreign influence in higher education, requiring schools to provide silent time students can use for daily prayer if they so choose, and more.
Additional issues DeSantis has addressed through executive action or is prepping for future legislation include protecting data privacy (thereby hitting a major source of revenue for social media censors), banning critical race theory in public education, and preventing the state pension system from investing in companies complicit in the anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, & sanctions” (BDS) campaign.
Sending Florida law enforcement to Texas and Arizona to help secure the southern border
Signing a law strengthening transparency and parental consent for sex education in public schools.
Signing a trio of laws requiring that high schools teach the evils of communism & totalitarianism, that colleges make civic literacy a condition of graduation, and requiring colleges to conduct annual assessments of intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity on their campus.
DeSantis sounds terrific. I certainly hope we can unload Little in the next election.
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