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Palin: all-out supporter of the NEA
Sarah Palin stunned me, and I hope she stunned a lot of people, when in the Thursday night debate she said: “I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.” [Italics added.] America, of course, spends more per capita on education than almost any other country, and produces ignorant illiterates. How can this be? Answer: it’s not that the schools are trying to do a good job but are failing because of lack of funds. It’s that the schools are doing exactly what they aim to do. The schools are controlled by left-liberals with a left-liberal educational philosophy that is geared against knowledge, excellence, and the transmission of our civilization, and in favor of equality. You attain equality by making everyone equally ignorant, or by trying to get as close to that desired condition as you can; and you produce a citizenry that will go along with the destruction of our civilization by not teaching them to know anything true and good about our civilization, but by teaching them to despise it. It’s the teachers who have done this, quite deliberately and consciously, and our spirited, moose-hunting, let’s-make-war-on-the-Russkies gal Sarah wants to “ramp up” their pay a lot more. As Paul Mulshine points out, Palin is not a conservative, but a liberal populist. Or, rather, she’s a liberal populist with a gun who loves America, believes in God, and opposes abortion. And, in a gesture typical of the faux or hopelessly naive conservative, she rails against that part of America that is unpatriotic and contemptuous of religious belief and small-town virtues, while she fails to notice that the schools whose funding she wants dramatically to increase deliberately produce citizens who are anti-American, atheistic, and sexually promiscuous. Mulshine goes on to quote Palin’s forthrightly stated opposition to school vouchers during her candidacy for governor in 2006, and says this is further proof that she is no conservative. But vouchers are a terrible idea that would destroy the only remaining good schools by flooding them with low—performing and disorderly blacks and Hispanics, which is the real reason so many states and localities have opposed them, though of course they don’t dare put it in those terms. What makes Palin a liberal is not her opposition to vouchers, but her support for the National Education Association, the archetypal liberal organization in America, and for massive salary increases for its members, which she thinks is or ought to be the business of the federal government.
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