[Bernard Marx]

You are trained to do a job. You are educated to be a good citizen.

That's profound. The "good citizen" part was tossed into the trash back in the 1960s when "progressive reformers" in the Bill Ayers mold were allowed to gain a stranglehold on the American education system. I've watched helplessly for 40 years as the Marxist point of view has largely replaced traditional American values and loyalty in the name of "political/environmental activism."

Nikita Khrushchev was essentially right when he declared: "We will bury you." The Marxists did it in the classroom and via "popular culture," not the battlefield.

[cripplecreek]

The Marxists did it in the classroom and via "popular culture," not the battlefield.

Watch the election results on those state level elected education races. Sadly less than half the republicans who voted for Mitt Romney even bothered to vote in those races and we handed every one of them to democrats in Michigan. That was the state board of education seats and all the top governing body seats at both UofM and MSU.

I've found that most FReepers don't even know that such races exist or don't understand that straight ticket votes leave many of those ballot slots empty if there are more than just 1 GOP or conservative candidate.

[blueunicorn6]

I could even grudgingly have a little respect for the Democrats if they truly were Marxists. Then, they would just be misguided. The Democrats aren’t Marxists. They throw out enough socialism to win the votes of the low information voters. Is Nancy Pelosi a Marxist? Is Harry Reid a Marxist? Is Max Baucus a Marxist? There is absolutely no evidence that the leaders of the Democrat party are Marxists. So, if it’s not ideology that motivates them to seek these elected jobs, then what is it? Look at the size of the government treasuries. That’s where the big money is. Who is going to miss a few billion off those budgets? The leaders of the Democrat party are Con Men.....Grifters........thieves. The leaders of the Democrat party are nothing more than loud-mouthed bullies out to enrich themselves from the taxpayers.