USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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> Note also that wannabe VAGOV Terry McAuliffe (D) just hired
> the most fraudulent corrupt political dirtbag lawyer he could
> find to try to steal the VA election too.

And like the Democrats and Biden Admin claiming that
Christian's religious objections to vax mandates are fake
and unsincerely held... Terry McAuliffe has also made
major election fatal statements, and spread Fake News
which has been refuted by the actual full Charlotte Transcript...


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/22/democrat-terry-mcauliffe-uses-very-fine-people-hoax-in-campaign-ad-attacking-youngkin/



Who Decides What Kids Should Be Taught?

https://buchanan.org/blog/who-decides-what-kids-should-be-taught-158681

Virginia is a newly blue state, with a Democratic governor and two
Democratic senators, that Joe Biden won by 10 points.

Hence, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe was an early and solid favorite to
regain the office he vacated in 2017. But if McAuliffe loses Tuesday,
the defeat will be measured on the Richter scale.

For if he does lose, it will be because of an elitist belief McAuliffe
blurted out during a debate with Republican rival Glenn Youngkin:

    “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take
books out and make their own decisions. … I don’t think parents should
be telling schools what they should teach.”

Yet, during his own term as governor, one Virginia school district
pulled copies of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Huckleberry Finn” out of
the schools because of the books’ use of racial slurs.

What McAuliffe was saying was that the knowledge, truths and beliefs
imparted to children in public schools are to be determined by school
officials and teachers alone. Parents have no role and should butt
out.

His dismissal of any parental role in education did more than cause a
backlash against McAuliffe. It put on the national agenda an issue
that will be engaged and fought long after this Virginia governor’s
race is over.

Former President Barack Obama was not amused at Virginia’s reaction to
McAuliffe’s rejection of any parental role in education.

    “We don’t have time to be wasting on these phony, trumped-up
culture wars,” said Obama during a campaign stop for McAuliffe.

But to the voters of Virginia, who have been moving to Youngkin since
McAuliffe made his now-famous remark, these are real issues.

For what their children are taught and not taught in the public
schools to which parents consign them from age 5 to age 18 are matters
of grave concern for those parents. For it will affect the kind of
adults and citizens their children will become.

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man” is a
saying attributed to the Jesuits’ founder St. Ignatius of Loyola.

These schools are helping shape what children come to believe about
the moral, social and historical issues tearing our country apart.
These schools are helping shape the men and women these children will
become.

Consider. Under the landmark Supreme Court rulings in Roe v. Wade and
Obergefell v. Hodges, abortion and same-sex marriage have been made
constitutional rights. Yet both decisions contradict biblical truths,
Catholic doctrine and natural law.

While both decisions are today the law of the land, have parents no
right to object if public-school teachers instruct their students that
these decisions were right, moral and just? Do students and parents
have no right to dissent, both inside and outside the classroom?

According to the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” American history
began when the first slaves arrived in Virginia, not when the colonies
declared independence in 1776 or when the Constitution was ratified.

Do parents have no right to object if the tenets of critical race
theory — that America is shot through with “systemic racism,” that
whites are privileged from birth and blacks oppressed — are taught as
truth about the country to which they have given their loyalty and
love?

For generations, statues to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson stood
on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. Now that the statues are
torn down, both are reviled as “traitors.”

Yet, until he was 40 years of age, George Washington was a loyal
British subject. But when Virginia rose up against the British Crown,
Washington joined the rebellion. Robert E. Lee was also a loyal U.S.
soldier and hero of the Mexican War, until his home state Virginia
seceded.

Both men were slave-owners. The great difference: Washington was
victorious at Yorktown, and Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

President Dwight Eisenhower regarded Lee, whose portrait he hung in
the Oval Office, as among the greatest of all Americans.

Whose view of Lee should be taught? Eisenhower’s or Harvard’s?

The question raised by McAuliffe is: Who decides? Who, in the
education of America’s children, decides what is historically, morally
and socially true? And who is allowed to participate in those
decisions?

The nation is today divided over whether America is a good and a great
country, or whether it has been irredeemably stained by its sins
against the indigenous peoples and slavery. As the Dutch historian
Pieter Geyl said, “History is indeed an argument without end.”

Again, the question: Who decides which version is taught in the public
schools that are paid for with the tax dollars of the parents who send
their children there?

Middle America’s view of the country is more than a little distant
from the Ivy League’s, and somewhat closer to Merle Haggard’s. “When
you’re running down my country, you’re walking on the fighting side of
me.”

Whatever happens Tuesday, “the McAuliffe issue” will be on the table
in the elections of 2022.