Posted on 01/26/2025 4:06:14 AM PST by Libloather
President Trump has vowed to crack down on the extreme left-wing agenda — but a woke stronghold lurks a stone’s throw away.
The United States Senate Library — located in the basement of the Russell Senate office building in Washington D.C. — offers a slew of prominently displayed woke titles pumping everything from diversity equity and inclusion, far-left policy manifestos, polemics against Christians, and even deep dives into the long-discredited Russia probe.
The taxpayer-funded library — its 21-person payroll expenditures exceed $1.9 million per year — maintains a collection of 45,000 books and serves a population of roughly 6,000, mostly senators, committee sstaffers and other authorized users. It purports to be a strictly nonpartisan resource in the Capitol.
But of its thousands of tomes, it prominently highlights only a select, woke few in special cases and racks.
Among them are “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” by the recently pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Also highlighted is “The Message,” a DEI-screed by Ta-Nehisi Coates that has been condemned by some critics as antisemitic. Coates has himself speculated that he might have participated in the Oct 7 massacre against Israel if he grew up in Gaza.
“The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House,” by Trump’s longtime nemesis Rep. Nancy Pelosi, is also on display.
But none of President Trump’s 22 books are on display, and only one can be found in the stacks — his 1987 best-seller “Art of the Deal.” When The Post asked for a copy, a staffer said it was not kept on display and a library employee would have to go find it. The same treatment was meted out for Vice President Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
But books on the baseless Trump-Russia allegations were in supply.
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What is Thune doing about this?
Hopefully, he starts by bringing it to the attention of his colleagues.
Every public library that lacks strong bipartisan leadership should have all their staff fired and start from scratch. It’s an abuse of taxpayer funds to allow politicization to continue.
BTTT
Most of the stupid stuff that happens in schools is caused by lawsuits brought by parents. Making the schools private would simply make school unavailable to lower income families. Look to Merry Old England, back when there were only private schools. Only the "nobles" could have an education.
You are definitely on the right track with this one. Conservatives need to participate in all facets of society, including teachers and such. We usually leave these jobs for the leftists to fill. Why is that?
Why would someone equate a library to DVDs? Books are the only true record of civilization and all that entails.
Nonsense
You want to condemn children to the hell of government schools instead of looking at better solutions
Its not that we leave these jobs for the leftists. Its that the leftists are so power hungry that they claw their way into positions of importance & push hard to ensure that their power can grow & that’s through increasing the influence/power for their side in the leadership & controlling roles. Right-wingers tend to be more market-oriented in believing that the best people, products, and services will win out with good quality, performance, and value. In the absence of corruption and interference the right-wingers are correct.
I want to fix those schools. That can be done only if conservatives engage as teachers and school administrators. Your method just moves the problem to a different column of the ledger.
Not so. It isn’t difficult to get a teaching certificate or land a government job. The truth is, conservatives go for either engineering positions, white collar labor, or the trades. The hippies go for the low-hanging fruit of government employment.
you are wonderfully idealistic
one cannot fix the schools, I assure you. The walls of unions, government and culture are too high.
One can only leave and make it better elsewhere and starve the school beast out.
There are historically many cases of people coming together to educate children and adults outside of the government systems.
It is time to implement it and it will force people to group with like minded to work on a cause. This will provide a communities that have otherwise been atomized by current culture. It makes a stronger child.
There is no way conservatives can enter these twisted systems. There is no way in.
One can only leave and make it better elsewhere...
What makes you think the "old rot" wouldn't eventually overtake the new paradise? It will do precisely that unless the actual problems are recognized and remedies applied. Most of "school rot" comes from lawsuits levied by parents against the school:
Too much homework
My baby deserves better grades
Its the teacher's fault my child doesn't understand
It is OK for my child to be absent whenever he/she pleases
An infinite number of makeup tests should be allowed
It should be OK to makeup work months after it was due
The course is too hard
You must teach my slow child in the advanced classes
Why is that a required course? You should be able to handle a class and deal with disruption
So on, so on, so on.
You really don't understand the problems; therefore, you wouldn't be able to solve them. Changing locations simply won't help.
Changing the system by make small controllable environments that are parent run will make workable programs. Not school, programs, Because school as we know it is going away very soon.
I understand very well what you are talking about.
You cannot salvage it.
Remember Children are only in the system for a total of up to 12 years. They and their parents go away. The blob is there forever.
Leave it.
Totally.
You simply do not have an idea that can be successfully implemented. If you think you do, how about sharing some sort of plan or operational guidelines. How are you going to get parents to participate more than they currently do? How will you get parents to agree to force their students to live up to standards? Who establishes those standards? Who plans and writes the curriculum?
Unless you can post something that convinces me that you can change outcome merely by changing location, I must insist you have a very simple understanding of the situation.
No I did not say simply change the location. You said that.
I said get them out of the schools. The parents will band together and curriculum is available.
Screw standards.
There really are no standards so anything the parents and community do will be better than what these government facilities provide..
I have spent the last 40 years around parents who have opted to leave.
Parents who can’t or won’t will have their kids trapped in the ever failing system
You seem trapped in a limited perspective.
You are trapped in an intellectual vacuum.
Until you understand that the parents were the ones who caused degradation of the schools you won't be able to supply a solution.
Wow! So, will any hillbilly be allowed to set the standards for language and literature? Choose which history lessons are useful? Designate the level of mathematics needed in all walks of life? Do I have to put up with choices of other parents who see no reason to learn chemistry or physics?
You really haven't taken note of what I am trying to tell you: It is mostly the parents that CAUSED the degradation of the schools. That MUST be recognized and taken into account. Otherwise, what spoiled the public schools will also spoil these new endeavors.
You and I hold better views of child rearing and education than the vast majority of parents. A collective of two well-educated and properly functioning parents combined with hundreds of dip-shits will not produce a decent education.
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