What DeSantis has done here is crucial, but it is important for those of us who are activists to remember that we have a role to play for ourselves.
Our job is NOT just to (on election day) go, vote, and then sit around twiddling our thumbs for the next 729 days until the next election day comes around.
We can influence and pressure education completely from the outside!
A lot of insiders have been saying for many years that the root of American cultural problems is in its universities. The intellectual and social atmosphere in those places has long since turned poisonous. It was clear where this was going way back, in W.Buckley’s “God and Man at Yale”, 1951. The rot was well emplaced by the time of Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind”, 1987. Angelo Codevilla defined the modern problem, in 2010, created by these fanatically ideological universities, that created a malicious leadership class.
Since politics is downstream of culture, and American culture is driven largely by its elites, and these elites are brainwashed in universities, the route of transmission is obvious.
I dont see how this can be resolved at this point. You are stuck with millions of poisoned minds ruling every institution, and these people are sick for life (people cant really be persuaded en masse, nearly all are what they are after childhood) and there is no alternate pool from which they can be individually replaced. It will take a genuine revolution in which all institutions are destroyed and rebuilt from scratch.
Yes. All of us should write to our governors and request that they do what Desantis has done and to evaluate adding a Hillsdale charter school in your state. Put the pressure on them.