Posted on 08/11/2022 12:10:17 PM PDT by cotton1706
It’s a hard election year to gain traction as a moderate Wyoming Republican.
Republican candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer Zerba, a self-described moderate, has gotten a taste of that difficulty on the campaign trail.
The crowd at Casper’s Politics in the Park event Wednesday evening cheered when Zerba’s opponent, Megan Degenfelder, promised to “fight back against radical political ideologies like critical race theory that belong nowhere near our classrooms.” Incumbent candidate Brian Schroeder, who was appointed to the position in January, brought on more cheers when he encouraged the crowd to “push back against the cultural currents,” warning those present that the “virus is spreading fast.”
Then Zerba stood to introduce herself.
“I’m the only candidate who is an educator who has taught in Wyoming public schools. Here we are, riling people up over something we’re not doing, and unless you’re in the classroom, you don’t have any idea,” she said regarding critical race theory, an academic framework for examining how racism is embedded in U.S. institutions and society. (It isn’t taught in Wyoming public schools).
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You get on top of the coming problem and don’t let it get a foothold.
If she isn’t interested in rooting out woke “educators” then she is not any kind of “moderate.”
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
It’s an older meme, but it checks out.
The only thing in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and road kill.
I’m stealing that.
I think John of Patmos said it better, but the road kill analogy works and is shorter.
“I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth” (Rev 3:15–16).
I wouldn’t believe in anything an ‘educator’ told me. They’ve already been public about continuing to slip stuff in after it’s been banned. I have no idea what’s going on in Wyoming’s schools, but I’d be damned sure to vote for someone who is ON GUARD against the leftist nonsense.
“I wouldn’t believe in anything an ‘educator’ told me.”
I was in a discussion once with a group of people at work and we were discussing current events and one of the girls retorted to something I said with “I have a degree in education” to which I replied “well, so what?.”
She thought she knew all about about everything and that was supposed to be the end of the discussion. But she was 22, had just graduated and didn’t know anything. By that time I was in my 30’s and was far more well-versed in issues than she was. AND we were working for a bank, so that education degree was gonna come in REAL handy there!
But to your point, people that claim to be “educators” tend to be elites. And it reminds me of Orwell’s quote “only an intellectual could believe that. No ordinary man would be such a fool.”
Orwell’s quote “only an intellectual could believe that. No ordinary man would be such a fool.”
An EXCELLENT quotation for our times!
I’m going to enjoy watching these leftist “moderates” getting thrashed in the primaries. I just voted (early voting) for Schroeder over her, Hageman over Cheney, and Allemand over Sweeney. The last clown keeps sending campaign literature around emphasizing he’s a “moderate” - quite apart from ideological preferences, anyone so stupid that they can’t read the political mood around here should not be representing anything.
I'm sorry, but I would just about die laughing if I was on the receiving end of a line like that.
Stupid article obviously written by a liberal asshat. Crowd didn’t do anything except be relatively silent compared to applauding the real candidates.
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