Minnesota Has Fallen

 

I came home from our cabin by myself Sunday night and found political literature left on our stoop by two women on the Bloomington School board, running for reelection. I will not mention names because I do not like to single people out, but I noticed some problems right off.

 

First, for at least 10 years candidates for local elections here do not openly and forthrightly admit what party they are representing.  That is just immoral: we need statesman, not politicians, at every level of government: they must self-identify who they are, what they stand for, and what they are going to do the public, if elected. We need no more fence-straddling, unprincipled, coy smirkers that stand for nothing but getting rich and advancing socialism.

 

We have a bunch of Leftists here that have taken over most suburbs as well as the urban core, and their euphemisms about investing in public infrastructure is a lie about wasting money and robbing us overburdened Minnesota taxpayers of more money that we do not have.

 

These two women are staunch Leftist, judging by their campaign literature.

 

  One runs on understanding diverse perspectives, a euphemism for promoting DEI. She claims to manage resources wisely, really? Both women are teachers.

 

This second candidate says she will continue to work for school safety, with reference to gun violence. Minnesota Democrats came with Red Flags laws, etc. and that does nothing but attack law abiding citizens and does nothing about criminals, felons, and thugs using illegal guns on the street, but are not being sent to jail often enough, long enough. That is the only way to promote safety—unless teachers are each school are packing, to protect the class against criminal and crazy aggressors.

 

She would invest even more resources into the schools through legislative contact, to make sure Bloomington schools are “adequately funded.” How about freezing the education budget where it is, and come with $12,000 per kid so parents can send them to magnet schools, charter schools, religious schools or to home-school them, to break up the poisonous public education monopoly brainwashing kids to love social justice activism as radical change agents, but not time to learn about moral character, patriotism and to read, write and do math?

 

She wants to retain “valuable teachers’: that is fine, but I would prefer that we teach kids to self-realize as predominantly individualistic, individual-living students guided by their parents, and then teachers can supplement that guidance and influence.

 

She is for equity in education: I am so horrified about that DEI-CRT, anti-racist, reverse-racist ideology and assault on whites, Christians, Westerners, and heterosexuals, that she told me all that I need to know about her and the schools that she teaches in. Christopher R. Rufo has a lot say, condemning such teachers, either deliberately or unconsciously Marxist ideologues.

 

She is for effective collaboration: does that mean Minnesota, with its now ancient pattern of excellence in public education, will now educate kids as well as they do in Chicago? That is but 10 years ahead of Bloomington and Minneapolis.

 

Minnesota has fallen or is falling quick.