posted January 3, 2009
Republicans and conservatives are in jeopardy of being "educated" out of existence. That begs the question, why in a county that is over 60% Republican and conservative, do we allow our local school system to be run by liberals? Yes, while conservatives have slept, the local school systems across the country, including ours, have been completely taken over by liberals.
It is not only the liberals alone that have made this possible. It is also RINO (Republicans in name only) that have supported these liberal policies and made it possible for them to dominate the school system. Locally RINO's like Chip Baker, Richard Casavant, Joe Conner, Claude Ramsey, etc. are prime examples of politicians that have posed as Republicans basically to get elected while supporting liberal school policies and tax increases. They have been given their marching orders by the local liberal power-structure. They always support the HCEA, NEA, and whatever "…EA" that they can. What organizations can you name that are more liberal than those? Not many.
Foundations like Annenberg, Lyndhurst, and the PEF are making sure that textbooks, teachers, and curriculum push a liberal agenda. A prime example is the global warming hoax. In schools, global warming and, what I call the teaching of "green dogma," has reached the status of a religion. Never mind the scientific facts don't support their view of man-made climate change. Never mind that 10's of thousands of scientists think that this view is bunk. Our children, like in any other religion, must have faith in the almighty Al Gore that mankind is responsible.
Even more alarming are text books full of revisionist history and historical editorializing. In this academic world, liberal political figures and thought are portrayed as wonderful while conservatives are depicted as either evil or just plain stupid. There have been several books written on this subject that chronicle these text book falsehoods. Also, teachers themselves constantly push their view of reality on their students. I have a friend in South Carolina whose middle-schooler is constantly bombarded about how wonderful Obama is and how stupid people like his own father were for supporting conservatives.
Even more bizarre is how ashamed the modern liberal is of being called the "L" word. Just like in the novel "1984," they have created a softer, gentler, term to hide their true philosophy. Progressive is the nice word they have picked. Don't be fooled, there is nothing "progressive" about them. In contrast, democrats and republicans alike fall all over themselves to be called conservative. They are not ashamed.
Today, in our schools, they are teaching that left-wing, 100 year old economic and political philosophies are the way to go. Never mind they have failed countless times. What the liberal left has been doing for years is to take a page out of their more extreme cousins' communist playbook and that is to indoctrinate school children so the political power will finally come. Obama's support in the younger generation, who have had basically 18 years of brain-washing, is the first sign that their agenda is working. This incremental rewiring of our children's belief system has been taking place for over 30 years. It is just a matter of time before these children grow up to be voters and presto, we have a string of Obamas and go right done the tubes.
The point here is that the most important post in our local government is the school board. The Republican establishment and true conservatives need to finally understand that the school board controls over 60% of our tax resources, the minds of our children and our political future. It is time we faced reality.
Tim Price
jat-55@msn.com
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What is a conservative Republican anyway? I thought that the anti-liberal notion opposed publicly funded financial assistance and was based on standing on your own two feet.
Unfortunately, Mr. Price, the conservative welfare approach is more financially adverse than any liberal ever created. Baling out the rich corporations and their stockholders is publicly funded welfare.
Maybe the public schools could include this in their economics curriculum citing the difference in welfare from the conservatives, verses the liberal perspective of helping the impoverished sector of society.
It does not take an educated person to see that this idea of conservative is all messed up.
By the way, the public school curriculum is outstanding.
Allen Edmonds
all1959@comcast.net
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Actually, Tim, fewer than 35% this last year identified themselves as "Republicans". Have you ever thought maybe it is their absolute failure at the helm that has lead to the downfall of the GOP?
Either way, we can both agree, the more educated you become, the less likely you are to vote Republican.
Bryan Vance
Johnson City
bvdisc@gmail.com
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Tim, I agree and I have one word for you - homeschooling.
It was not only the political agenda and the humanism that brought me to this commitment, but also how poorly served a child of mine with learning disabilities was treated. It is hard and it takes up everything you have, but much less hard than to watch your children "wither on the vine" and be brainwashed.
Rachel Miller
Signal Mountain
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Mr. Price,
I'm a former conservative who is now proud to call myself a liberal. Yes, I said proud. Contrary to your claim, I'm not ashamed of that term at all. Also contrary to your claim, I am not "falling all over myself" to call myself a conservative. Far from it.
However, I believe the reason many of my fellow liberals prefer the term "progressive" is because conservatives have been using the term "liberal" like it's a swear word for years. Having been both a conservative and a liberal, I believe that conservatives are far more hateful of liberals than the reverse. They spit the "L" word out of their mouths with so much venom and hatred that it's no surprise that people would avoid that term. (Personally, I see good sides and bad to both conservative and liberal thought and I think most people in the middle do as well.)
By the way, when you refer to the failure of leftist economic philosophies, I believe you're referring to communism. Yes, it's a total and complete failure. Everyone knows that, including liberals. But liberal economies have done very well all over Northern and Western Europe for years. I've been all over Europe and seen it myself.
Also, read your letter again. It's very apparent that you have an agenda too. All groups do, but not everyone admits it. Of course, everyone believes their agenda will make the world a better place. But back to your agenda, how do you know that your own conservative views would not "brainwash" children? Don't you think that they should be exposed to a multiplicity of ideas? Or do you just want to eradicate liberal thought from education and prevent liberals from becoming teachers? If you do, then maybe an anti-liberal thought police would be to your liking.
John Stegall
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While I could go in a million different directions in response to the contents of this conversation, I only have time to make but one minor point.
The term "progressive" has been adopted by "progressives" to describe ideas that, they feel, will help our society "progress," or move past "old," "outdated" ideas. Those "old," "outdated" ideas are generally conservative in nature. Because progressive values advocate abandoning those "old," "outdated" ideas, they then create, by default, a backlash or division no less sharp than the one caused here by the conservative nature of Mr. Price's original post.
Bill Colrus
Independent Conservative
billcolrus@gmail.com
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