Party loyalty is commendable for campaigning but once elected, politicians represents all within their respective electorates. Elected officials must put aside blind ideological party support. Lock step votes for extremist positions are bad for the voters and the country. Neither left nor right represents the electorate and extreme party line votes leaves three quarters of the population un-represented. There are two possible outcomes from blind embrace of extreme ideology: Totalitarian suppression of the majority or its embrace of revolution. Either outcome must be avoided. Officials are elected to openly consider the issues and vote for what is best for the majority while protecting the minorities.
Votes to appoint the unqualified, and extremist out of party loyalty insures the ultimate decline and fall of the State. Majorities are slow to react but once aroused they are impossible to stop and the State fragments.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Education 013017
The administration's attempts to dismantle the country's public education system insures the ultimate destruction of the country. It must be remembered that America rose to greatness on the shoulders of the greatest generation educated in public schools, often in one-room schools. Teachers dedicated to insuring their charges were prepared to build that future greatness taught classes in those schools.
Those great teachers of the past no longer teach because of low pay and rising bureaucracy inertia. Quality public education has been replaced by the big business of education. There is money to be made by charter schools, endless testing, conferences and production of study aids. Parents, teachers and students are excluded from education processes by businesses that siphon off desperately needed money for public education. While public education deteriorates the business of education is growing, producing only a lowering of the country's literacy standards.
Congress must exercise extreme caution in dealing with proposals that increases the power of the business of education at the cost of equal education for all that insures the great generation's ideals are never lost. Failure to support public education drives a wedge into the heart of the country where many have little chance of clawing their way out of poverty and more under educated slip into that abyss.
Those great teachers of the past no longer teach because of low pay and rising bureaucracy inertia. Quality public education has been replaced by the big business of education. There is money to be made by charter schools, endless testing, conferences and production of study aids. Parents, teachers and students are excluded from education processes by businesses that siphon off desperately needed money for public education. While public education deteriorates the business of education is growing, producing only a lowering of the country's literacy standards.
Congress must exercise extreme caution in dealing with proposals that increases the power of the business of education at the cost of equal education for all that insures the great generation's ideals are never lost. Failure to support public education drives a wedge into the heart of the country where many have little chance of clawing their way out of poverty and more under educated slip into that abyss.
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