Republicans Win 2014 Elections -- America Dodges a Bullet
The Republicans have swept the 2014 elections, picking up 7+ seats in the Senate and 10+ seats in the House of Representatives to secure majorities in both Houses of Congress. This is a very good thing for the Republic, because the Democrats had been in the process of using the same techniques of voter fraud and the increasingly-credible threat of ( Read more... )
Here's where conservatives always miss the boat - if schools are lying, corrupt, liberal indoctrination centers, the only real way to take them back is for conservatives to take up careers in education.
But very few want to do that, because there isn't much money in education, and conservatives are usually the ones trying to strip away the few incentives there are to go into teaching.
So instead, they rail about how liberal teachers are teaching liberalism in liberal institutions run by liberals, and your solution is... to make those teachers stop being so liberal, dammit!
How exactly is that supposed to work, if you won't put skin in the game? You can't "take back" an institution if you won't invest yourself in it in the first place.
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Plus break the union.
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Pretty much all parochial schools, all private schools, and the rapidly growing homeschool (whcich actually at this point is coming to mean "community schooling", rather than the traditional "teaching your own children" model), are avowedly conservative.
In fact, "the schools" were reasonably well-balanced until 2 events. First, was the vietnam war, which allowed people to "dodge the draft" by being registered in a college. So a HUGE number of leftist draft dodgers spent several extra years acquiring useless degrees. What do you DO with a useless degree? You teach, of course!
And then, in 1979 (yes, it's *that* recent, the US department of education was put in place, and began doing things like "standardizing curricula". Under, of course, the close guidance of the, again, communist teachers union.
In that climate, Conservatives won't survive. they won't climb to the administrative ranks of an organization that exists explicitly to destroy them.
There's an old saying that you can't open a box with the crowbar inside it. That applies to a lot of the tactics being taken here. both the efforts to "reform the curriculum", and your suggestion of "getting involved suffer from it.
However, for an interesting novelty, our leadership has shown us some methods that actually might work.
Vouchers. Allowing parents to decide what schools to send their children to. That has 2 major benefits. First of all, parents lean right as a group. It's hard to convince the parent of daughters that promiscuity is good for them, and it's hard to convince the parent of sons that his kid needs to be bullied just for being a male. So the parents, if given the choice will send their kids more to the schools that try to teach decent conservative values.
The second advantage is that, in most states, it breaks the union. Charter schools are outperforming public schools at this point, and are saving tens of millions of dollars. They're an idea whose time is coming.
So, yeah, the right things are, miraculously enough, being done. And they're being done by the very leadership we all love to hate!
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