Ma and Pa are flexing their muscles

American Thinker ^ | 20 Feb, 2022 | Silvio Canto, Jr.

[MtnClimber]

"Values moms" are sick and tired of what the public schools are teaching their kids.

A couple of days ago, I watched a Dick Morris video about the "values moms" moving to the GOP. In other words, we used to hear about "soccer moms" in the '90s and "security moms" after 9-11 — and now it's "values moms" sick and tired of what the public schools are teaching their kids.

And the Democrats, and especially the teachers' unions, are losing big time. Why? Because they are reacting to the parents in the same way that P.M. Trudeau reacted to the truckers.

This is from Glenn H. Reynolds:

We can learn a couple things from all this.

The first is the brittle, arrogant and defensive response of our ruling class to any kind of political opposition nowadays. What kind of mind turns parents complaining at a school-board meeting into some sort of "domestic terrorism" threat? (The same kind that turns peacefully protesting truckers into "insurrectionists," I suppose.)

In what previous age of American history would secret targeting and federal investigations of people engaging in a bedrock institution of participatory democracy have been seen as appropriate? Who calls people racist for wanting their kids to learn?

In this age, alas, those things happen, and the people doing them — the people who are supposed to be our society's leaders, the best and the brightest, the level-headed non-extremists of the establishment — are frankly more than a little bit crazy.

[MtnClimber]

How can so many in the education system think that the evil of marxism is a good thing. Are the educators who don’t agree so bullied that they are afraid to point out the problem?

[Empire_of_Liberty]

How are they paid? It seems pretty Marxist, to me.

[SamAdams76]

Almost all "educators" have never been in the private sector.

Think about it. They tend to come from already affluent families and get sent to the best schools. They never had to run a paper route or bag groceries in a supermarket to earn pocket change. They got plenty enough allowance from Daddy as well as a trust fund that ensured they'd never have to do regular work for a living like the "proletariat."

After school, they gravitated into the academic life, where they could get tenure, ensuring they'd never get fired, and guaranteed a generous income for the rest of their lives, thanks to the endowments flowing into their chosen university.

Of course they think marxism is great. They were bred from an early age to be part of the ruling class under a marxist system. Their entire lives are spent in overstuffed chairs at campus libraries with wood paneled walls doing research and such. No "working class hero" stuff for them. That's for the other dopes who think socialism, marxism, and communism are all good things.

[stinkerpot65]

What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.

[ClearCase_guy]

frankly more than a little bit crazy

I really think society has a huge mental illness problem. Mass Formation Psychosis is a big part of that as people are hypnotized to believe things that make no sense. But it's deeper too. People just don't think right. Everyone seems to want to be a victim. Everyone is a malignant narcissist. It corrupts the fabric of society.

And, of course, the field of Psychology basically enables all of this. Men are bad. Women are victims. Homosexuals and Transgenders are more normal than Heterosexuals, and children are very sexually appealing, everyone knows that. It's a corrupt field.

We need to cure society's madness, and the people who ought to help are part of the problem.

[lurk]

And still the parents send their kids to these scbools.

[MtnClimber]

Yes. I feel like it is the Victimhood Olympics and somehow I have stumbled into the middle of the playing field.

[foreverfree]

There was a railroad named the "Ma and Pa".

https://www.facebook.com/MaAndPaRailroad/

ff

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Looks like a lot of those books were stolen from the library.

[jmacusa]

If there is ever any good to come out of all of this madness from the last two years and the January 6 ‘’insurrection’’ I would hope it’s that the ruling class and Congress sweats bullets every waking hour and loses sleep at night knowing the masses, the electorate are on to them and at any time they can be done away with.

[SamAdams76]

He’s wearing a clip-on tie as well. But that chair is definitely overstuffed.

[4yearlurker]

Or purchased at a library sale. I love going to library sales!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I buy books at library sales sometimes, but I take the library’s tags off.