What were voters thinking electing Ocasio-Cortez
If voters (even in NY) send a woman like Ocasio Cortez to the House, what does that say about the electorate?
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Would you care to explain what that is?
On the other hand, never mind. We probably will disagree on this subject so it'll be just wasting space.
It does not seem useful to continue this dialogue.
It is called "passing on the torch".
It takes the same strong determination generation after generation to have the flame live and pass it on to the next. In the process, the flame may go out. If the older generation has not prepared the next to know how to re-ignite it, it'll die forever.
What is the solution to prevent it from taking over young minds?
As to your first comment about buying time, isnt that what I did with voting for Trump, as the obvious less evil choice? Sounds like you would agree that it was a good idea to keep crooked Hillary from getting in there. It would appear that Trumps ride will end in 2020, as it partially did in the election of 2018. But without an intellectual base, Trump could only slow down the rise of collectivism in a few areas, which I think he has done.
"Can this country achieve a peaceful rebirth in the foreseeable future?
"By all precedents, it is not likely
I think AR was right in making this comment. The rise in entitlement, political correctness, and the supremacy of pure emotion over reason has created very large problems for us.
Collectivism has attracted many more followers because of offering them freebies that others will pay for. I think it will take the exhaustion of the 'others' money before this can stop.
This means to me that whether we help the collectivists destroy the country or not, it will be essentially destroyed before we tip the educational scales to a sufficient degree to help reverse the process. My estimate is like 50 years of slow and agonizing destruction of our civilization before it just collapses, or is taken over by a foreign power like china.
On the positive side, I see people to a larger degree accepting that the MSM is crooked and not to be believed. In addition, although conspiracy theories arent universally accepted, people have much less trust in government in general and politicians in particular. This is indicated by the election of Trump, and his recent advertising banners "promises made... promises kept" (we never used to see this sort of advertising).
Another positive influence, which would would probably disagree with, is the abject failure of socialism in relatively close-by countries like Venezuela. Although it doesnt get much press so far, once it gets to the point where masses of people are dying, it might more attention.
Most socialist countries like Russia, China, Cuba, and most of Europe limp along without mass deaths, which promotes the hope that socialism CAN work if done right.
I agree it would be preferable if OUR society didnt collapse around our ankles.
There shouldn't be an "education department" (or a "labor department"). The administration's bureaucratic shuffling only concedes statist premises of government control over education, evading and obscuring the fundamental debate, while arguing with the other side of the swamp over how to do it. It wastes effort, in the wrong direction, while decrying "stiff resistance" in an irrelevant political battle -- all without mentioning the real problems with the content of education and the political support for them.
There isn't anything Trump can do to reform what is taught in schools, nor should he in his government role, other than removing existing Federal spending, controls and interference. Part of the problem of Trump idolatry is conservative belief that Trump's temporary political role is or could be a substitute for the required reform of fundamental ideas in the culture, including education, even if he were not further entrenching the wrong direction. Citing and relying on an administration political sales "report" for reorganization does not address any of this.
If public school are exempt from these kinds of criminal actions, then all ISIS would need for safe spaces in America is to call their militant training camps, “Public Schools.”
I said it was a multivariable equation, one of the variables being the parent.
I was not blaming them solely for the problem.
I don't want to be harsh but you often sound cynical. It is your business, of course, but it does not pass as a rational explanation or even an attempt to find solution. Are you saying we just have to sit back and wait until all of us are killed off by the left? That is the ultimate goal, just as it was Stalin's to execute tens of millions to "purify" communist ranks. Many of the elite in Europe are of the conviction that it was worth the price.
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