During the Democratic primary, I wrote about New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and his “eat the rich” pitch for votes. He pledged to “tax the hell out of the rich.” It did not work. Not only did de Blasio never got to one percent nationally. Worse yet, he polled at zero in his own New York city with a 58 percent unfavorable rating. Yet, De Blasio later continued his anti-capitalism agenda including using the pandemic to renew calls to curtail capitalism and demonstrating a shocking lack of knowledge of basic economics. Now de Blasio has declared the purpose of the New York public schools as redistribution of wealth and doubled down on that call after being criticized on Fox News.
Last week, de Blasio declared that he viewed the public schools as a tool for wealth redistribution and not just education: “I’d like to say very bluntly our mission is to redistribute wealth. A lot of people bristle at that phrase. That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use.”
His remarks drew criticism, including on Fox News. That coverage led to the recent response from de Blasio:
I’m going to say it one more time in case Fox News is watching again: ‘NYC mayor sees the redistribution of wealth as an important factor toward ending structural racism in education.’ Exactly right. I don’t get to say it very often, but Fox News got it exactly right. Amen. We are going to fight structural racism through redistribution, so Fox News, congratulations, fair and balanced coverage right there. If we think we’re going to deal with structural racism and segregation without redistribution of wealth, we’re kidding ourselves,” the mayor added. “Nothing changes unless you put the resources behind it.”
It was an interesting pivot. In his campaign, de Blasio was attacking calling for redistribution directly. He then called for curtailing capitalism in the name of fighting Covid-19. He is now calling for redistribution in the name of fighting racism.
It is a message that will not help with the exodus of New Yorkers out of the state, including many going to lower tax jurisdictions. While Gov. Cuomo has declared that the loss is draining the state, but de Blasio is fueling the concerns of affluent New Yorkers that they are being targeted. While telling the federal government to just print money, de Blasio seems to be doing his best to continue to shrink the number of high-paying taxpayers. New York already leads the country in its drop of population and could lose a house seat. The
Ironically, he could receive help from an unlikely source — one of the most expensive private schools in New York city. The Dalton school (which charges $54,180 a year in tuition for K-12 grades) circulated a controversial list of proposals to become “an anti-racist institution.” The list included
- Hiring 12 full-time diversity officers, and multiple psychologists to support students “coping with race-based traumatic stress.”
- Assigning a staffer dedicated to black students who have “complaints or face disciplinary action,” and a full-time advocate to help black kids “navigate a predominantly white institution.”
- Paying the student debt of black staffers upon hiring them.
- Requiring courses that focus on “Black liberation” and “challenges to white supremacy.”
- Compensating any student of color who appears in Dalton promotional material.
- Abolishing high-level academic courses by 2023 if the performance of black students is not on par with non-blacks.
- Requiring “anti-racism” statements from all staffers.
- Overhauling the entire curriculum, reading lists and student plays to reflect diversity and social justice themes.
- Divesting from companies that “criminalize or dehumanize” black people, including private prisons and tech firms that manufacture police equipment or weapons.
- Donating 50 percent of all fundraising dollars to NYC public schools if Dalton is not representative of the city in terms of gender, race, socioeconomic background, and immigration status by 2025.
The last proposal is the most interesting in terms of de Blasio’s plan to use the public schools to redistribute wealth. You could have Dalton charging parents over $54,000 a year while the school gives half of its fundraising dollars to the public schools.
As with my criticism of his understanding of economics (in demanding that the federal government just print more money to wipe out the New York city debt), I believe de Blasio is fundamentally wrong about the purpose of public education. In Chicago, my parents were great supporters of the public school system and sought to stop the white flight from public schools. While we could afford private schools, I went to public schools for virtually all of my pre-college education. They believed that public schools constitute important forums for shaping citizens in a diverse and common education. I believe strongly in public schools and we sent all of our kids public schools for the same reason.
Public education is not about wealth distribution. It should be a place for all families — wealthy and impoverished — to experience a common education, including important civics courses. This is the place where we shape future citizens. It is about affording all children a common and shared educational experience, not laboratories for de Blasio’s experiments on social or economic reconstruction.
It is certainly true that all forms of social welfare programs involve distribution of resources. However, public education is not about redistributing wealth. It is about guaranteeing common education and opportunities for all citizens. The level of support is tied to its educational, not a redistributive, function.
As an educator of over thirty years, I find de Blasio’s statement deeply troubling. Our schools and our children are not vehicles for de Blasio or others to recreate society. It is a highjacking of our schools for their own agendas. Public schools are struggling with low performing test scores, particularly among minority students. We need a greater focus on education, not economics, in our schools.
“In Chicago, my parents were great supporters of the public school system and sought to stop the white flight from public schools.”
Why would you fight this? How would you force people to stay in the school? It used to be we were free to move about.
I’m guessing Professor Turley’s parents talked to their friends and neighbors who lived in the district to reconsider moving (they maybe even wrote letters to the editor or attended school board meetings to voice their perspectives) . As a lawyer, I’m guessing his family was comfortable with debate and discussed and debated tough ideas on a regular basis.
During my tenure in law school, I had some friends and mentors in the Italian neighborhood in Bridgeport. They were cops, mostly.
They were all on their way out. If not sooner, then the plan was, later.
Nobody had any illusions why. The Italian word for eggplants came up from time to time, and not in the context of cuisine.
These days one is supposed to believe that these children of immigrants who made up the “white flight” from Chicago, were all deplorable white racists
The fact is, they barely had time to “assimilate” to the glories of America, before they were displaced. The boomer generation hit the sweet spot, not the one before, nor after.
“limousine liberals” is what another friend from Chicago calls those who are quick to denounce the white workers for seeking more peaceful neighborhoods in which to live
I don’t know where Turley is from in Chicago. I think he is a good person. People with tenured jobs can afford to be “good,”
My friends and mentors did not worry about being “good” they worried about putting food on the table and surviving, come what may.
Saloth Sar
ha ha my tenure as a student I should have said. I have never had the luck of drawing pay as perfesser. SS
See Steve Sailer about his in-laws experience with trying to stem white flight in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, ca. 1967. (His father in law was the boss of the musicians’ union local at the Chicago Lyric Opera). A mess of white families got together at that time to make a common pledge that they would never leave. His in-laws took the pledge. They fled the neighborhood a year later.
I know Sailer’s column, and I know the Lyric Opera. I used to go there for Wagner back when they actually performed. I did not know there was a connection
here is more info for the reader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Chicago
SS
it is hard to see it sometimes, but billionaires love guys like Diblasio.
when Diblasio says rich, he does not mean the highest stratum. Not them, he means people below them.
Nobody ever really dares touch the billionaires in America.
but by harassing the affluent, Diblasio does 2 things for billionaires:
1– he creates the illusion among the credulous poor that he is on their side (LIE)
and
2.– he creates resistance to government among the affluent.
this reinforces, in turn, the protections that billionaires use to secure their own oligarchy over government
Diblosio, in spite of his rhetoric, is a pawn and a plaything of billionaires
It is not the affluent, successful, nor even “Rich” who are the enemy
it is a very specific group of the highest slice of those who are better off, the very top
billionaires
Saloth Sar
I am waiting for some statistical proof that the redistributing in the past has improved our level of education. The results have been to lower the quality of education in our nation. The results are leading to a permanent underclass that is entirely dependent on the government, from the cradle to the grave. It’s alright though, we can just tell them that their plight is caused by some rich guy. We’ll have them voting for us forever.
Thinkthrough, if you’re so thoughtful show us real statistics and a timetable to illustrate how education standards were lowered by redistributing wealth.
To the Nyer’s considering fleeing the hell hole they voted for, don’t come to Florida.
You have destroyed your homes to feed your moral narcissism, and now want to spread the pestilence of “Identity” and Marxism to my state?
If you voted for De Blasio, Ocasio-Cortez and Cuomo you are not welcome.
If you were here in 2016 for our gubernatorial race we would likely have Marxist meth-head Andrew Gillum as our Governor.
Trump is one of the NYers moving to FL. He’s going to have to reconcile living at Mar a Lago when the agreement he signed said it wouldn’t be a residence, only a business.
DngupBd-I second that, no I 100 X’s that. YOU have created the hell hole you now find yourself in, stay where you’re at and correct the problem. Because wherever you go you’ll bring your baggage that created the problem.
What do the two words “de Blasio” mean in French?
It’s Italian, not French.
Does Blasio mean “blaster” in Italian?
JT: “Our schools and our children are not vehicles for de Blasio or others to recreate society.”
That ship sailed long ago. With rare exceptions, the humanities and social sciences do not educate. They propagandize.
or rather you might say, desegregation was itself a large social engineering experiment
people can share whether they think it has been a success or not
but one things for sure. lot of busses out there spewing out CO2 when the little kids could just as easily walk,
Sal Sar
Speaking of fraud…
This is not from The Onion:
“President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed into law a bill granting lifetime immunity from criminal prosecution to Russian presidents and their family members. … Under the new law, former presidents are immune from criminal or administrative prosecution and may not be detained, arrested or subject to searches, interrogations or bodily searches. An ex-president can only be stripped of immunity if the State Duma brings charges of high treason or other felonies against him or her. If those charges are approved by the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, the Federation Council would then vote on whether or not to strip the ex-president of immunity within three months. …”
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/12/22/putin-grants-lifetime-immunity-to-ex-presidents-and-their-families-a72448
I bet Trump is envious.
“Co-host of Russian state TV news talk show 60 Minutes Olga Skabeeva brought up the possibility that President Trump would end up seeking asylum in Russia to escape any prosecutions in the United States following the conclusion of his sole presidential term. … Putin can relate to Trump on a very personal level—not only where it comes to a ruthless pursuit of power, but also with respect to the intense fear of accountability if that power was to ever slip away. While Putin’s grip on Russia is feverishly safeguarded, Trump’s fate is far from certain. …”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-media-wants-moscow-to-grant-asylum-to-trump-to-help-him-dodge-prosecutions
CTHD ignores the true Biden corruption…
Maybe she is part of it.
DV is a puppet for our usual troll.
Estovir, why are you posting this crap?? Take your fantasies somewhere else.
That disgusting youtube content is not proper for this blog. I object to it.
Saloth Sar
You can email Turley (jturley @ law.gwu.edu — delete the spaces) and ask him to delete it. I think he passes the requests along to Darren to assess.
Must have hit a nerve with Anonymous, as he/she is projecting.
Anonymous, another attack on an individual but this one carries an icon that is recognizable. Is that our Anonymous in disguise? Another anonymous or the same who makes little sense and is insulting. How come you don’t call him Allan? Could it be that he is you?
You can’t tell them apart?
Seems like she is recognizing the true corruption, actually.
Elvis Bug
Mass media will keep on hammering away at bete noir Russia, and endangering American security in the long run, by the obsessive short run over use of them as a convenient enemy
Ray McGovern on how the war pigs are trying to push Biden down the same scaremonger path they have used on previous presidents
https://twitter.com/raymcgovern/status/1340883896422912002?s=20
and people doing it here, too. sad!
Saloth Sar
Prof. Turley or Moderator: You post that you believe in Public Education. You base this belief on the idea that
public schools constitute important forums for shaping citizens in a diverse and common education. Further, “Public education is not about wealth distribution. It should be a place for all families — wealthy and impoverished — to experience a common education, including important civics courses. This is the place where we shape future citizens. It is about affording all children a common and shared educational experience,”. . . It’s about guaranteeing common education and opportunities for all citizens. Worthy goals indeed.
Have you been sleeping through the change in Public schools? One commonly used barometer of Public education are test scores. While it seems that you have been asleep, test scores have sunk dramatically. These scores clearly and repeatedly show that the Public education has failed miserably in common education. And in the common and shared educational experience. And most commonly, it is the Teachers Unions in control.
How dare you misrepresent the truth here.
Public education has completely failed at guaranteeing common education and opportunities for all citizens.
The US was once a leader for healthcare and education — now it ranks 27th in the world. A significant decline from 1990 when it ranked sixth.
And now, you have to ask yourself what impact do Teachers Unions have on Education Curriculum? The Unions ask for more money “to raise test scores”. But that money, when given, goes to the administrators, not for Education, but for more administrators and higher pay for them. You should acquaint yourself with the scam of the PHD in Education diploma mills. A national disgrace, only to have the title of Doctor?!
I guess you haven’t been looking very closely.
Where did the Civics classes go? Where did the U.S. History classes go? Where did the Math and Science classes go? And this is what you don’t get.
Public education is a farce, and you know that to be true!
If you don’t, you should be totally ashamed of yourself for the ‘causes’ this post. Your blog is a farce and the only thing I can see here is the interest in putting another ‘notch’ in your viewership belt.
Please, just go back to sleep.
The people of New York City voted for this man. That pretty much shows the Public School system in New York has been in decline for a very long time.
Have you been following the controversies at the Dalton School? Private education is a farce too. The character of people who go into school administration and school teaching as a career give you this farce. Public bureaucracies add some viciousness and inefficiencies on top of that, but it’s mostly the stupidity of enclosed guilds.
Tabby, if you had natural talent for teaching, why didn’t ‘you’ pursue it??
The truth is that teaching is like policing: ‘Everybody presumes to know better that the real professionals’.
People who have never ridden in a police car imagine they know exactly how officers should have handled a situation. And adults who have never had to supervise other people’s children fancy they could successfully take charge of any classroom in the country.
+10
Elvis Bug
The truth is that teaching is like policing: ‘Everybody presumes to know better that the real professionals’.
Actually, Peter, I’m a moderately educated and self-educated person. Enough to tell a serious curriculum from a humbug curriculum though most of usy wouldn’t need much education to do that. I can also tell the difference between sensible disciplinary goals and inane goals. No person of common sense would conceive of, much less attempt to implement, the woke-tard program at the Dalton School. No teacher I ever had in school would ever have conceived of such a thing. You and Gainesville don’t bother to defend it. You merely try to assert, in all seriousness, that the excellence of the program is only visible to people who’ve been through teachers’ colleges and farted around in schools as adults (as opposed to leaving them in due time, as the rest of us did). I’m afraid their vocational training hasn’t instructed them that hiring 12 zero-marginal-product employees to hector students and faculty and paying off the student loans of black faculty are going to do some injury to the schools exchequer, not to mention cause a certain amount of avoidable discontent with your revenue-generating clientele. You see, in teacher’s colleges, they don’t actually teach you anything about scarcity and cost.
Brilliant post, DSS! 😎
I just retired after 60 years of teaching science (grades 7-25 in 3 different states). The students trained in new math rarely can solve simple chemistry/physics equations and expect a passing grade for showing up to class. Teacher unions made firing poor teachers imposssible, they were just sent to remedial education classes (usually a joke)..The most effective pressure on a student was in one school where any extracurricular activity was denied until a student made their work up to a C-. The Charter schools I taught in didn’t allow teacher unions and could solve problems much quicker and in unique ways which benefited everyone. The choice by Biden of Lily Eskerson Gomez as Secretary of Eduction will kill private and charter schools along with school choice.
Anonymous, they let you teach into your 80’s..?? Sounds like total B.S.
my macroeconomics prof was in his 80s and my managerial accounting prof was too. i had a math prof who was 80 as well. they were among the very best
Saloth Sar
Youre addressing a troll who has yet to break from puberty
Anonymous, the previous Anonymous claims he or she taught “grades 7-25”. Don’t kids graduate after 12th grade? ..I’m sure you never did..!
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Estovir, it was ‘you’ pretending to be the teacher of 60 years. ..Like we couldn’t guess..! More half the comments on these threads are just ‘you’ writing absolute nonsense to prevent real discussions.
The choice by Biden of Lily Eskerson Gomez as Secretary of Eduction will kill private and charter schools along with school choice.
Parents are the number 1 educators of children. Private or government schools aside, what we as parents teach our children serves as the foundation on which all else is constructed. If children know their parents feed them wisdom, truth, virtue and love, children know all else is tertiary.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a4.htm
2223 Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery – the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the “material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.”31 Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them:
He who loves his son will not spare the rod. . . . He who disciplines his son will profit by him.32
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.33
Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2223
delmaracer, your comment reads like a Greatest Hits rant against public schools that could have been written 50 years ago. So much phony outrage!
Is Anyone in Georgia Listening? Redistribution of wealth DeBlasio/Harris style is coming to your state unless the Republican senators are re-elected.
The question is why are New Yorkers showing Illinois level competence in picking their politicians?
You’re assuming they are picking. Not any different than believing Biden was “picked.”
Olly– I was wondering about that too. In the forensic audit of Michigan voting machines Trump was cheated but it was surprisingly reported that there was even more vote switching on down ballot candidates and issues.
Maybe the people aren’t really voting these lunatics into office.
Young, you old fool, a paper ballot recount in Antirm Michigan confirmed the results of the Dominion machine count, with a change of 12 votes.
Joe F, back to the cherry picking orchard once again. Antrim Michigan is a county with a population of 24,000. To use Antrim’s results to represent the entire nation is either naive or dishonest. Joe F has to jump out of bed each morning to find some piece of information to support his narrative. Very thin gruel indeed. I guess if your hungry for any tiny morsel very thin gruel will suffice. The rest of us are looking for sustenance that will support a more hearty nature.
Young is the one who introduced the forensic audit of Michigan voting machines. That’s a comment about Antrim, didn’t you know? Why are you complaining about Joe responding to what Young chose to focus on?
If you think Trump was cheated, why aren’t you also calling for new elections for Congress? They were elected on the same ballots.
Indeed Anonymous. Thinkit needs to keep up if he wants to run with the big dogs.
This ain’t no disco! This ain’t no foolin’ around!
Mr. Joe Fryday. Young was writing about the state of Michigan. In your comment you narrow it to one county with a population of 24,000 and the kids don’t vote. Proof of nothing. I am not convinced of wide spread voter fraud. I am convinced that weak representation of a position needs to be brought to the readers position. Even “Big Dogs” still have the mental capacity of a dog.
Young, the election fraud was always designed to be legally defensible by way of isolating the occurrences. Think Forest and Trees. So, instead of being able to challenge the obvious clear-cutting of the forest, they are forced to present evidence that a tree was cut down here and here and here and here and here… I suspect this is Durham’s challenge as well. The evidence we’ve all seen proves clear-cutting occurred, but Durham cannot bring indictments based on one incident of a tree being cut down. You will get a defense with statements like, if I knew then what I know now, I would never have… Instead, I believe Durham is putting this forest puzzle together tree by tree and then, he’ll be able to bring the entire picture of the clear-cut forest in to indict the individuals involved.
There is no evidence of clear-cutting. The hand counts have all been quite close to the machine counts.
Olly has been ominously warning us for over a year that the Durham boom was about to be lowered on everyone from Obama to Biden and we Democrats would be gnashing our teeth and wailing through the night at our party’s fate.Of course he has to nurse this now stale and lame threat or face what a gullible fool he’s been. Guess he didn;t hear Barr say that Duram was only still looking at possible FBI staff mistakes. Barr also said yesterday there was no need to appoint a special prosecutor on either “voter fraud” or Hunter Biden. Given that even not being able to get Clarence Thomas on board for this latest “scandal” busting is not enough to discourage him, Olly will keep the faith like the Pacific island Jap soldiers in caves until the 1950’s
Olly– Maybe. But I have lost faith in the entire DOJ. It is obvious now that Barr was only pretending to care. Now that he is leaving the mask is off the Judas.
I am one of many millions who strongly believed in the core honesty of our government officials. I have lost that belief. I wonder what comes of a system when those who embraced its ideals and believed in its officials turn away? Government gets the Fox News treatment. What’s left? Corruptocrats.
By the way, have you noticed how Resistance suddenly turned into Sedition?
I am surprised and disappointed by the lack of anything more than one conviction by Durham
Many months ago, I reported a link to a rumor circulating, which was that Barr was conducting a whitewash. Sztroke’s daddy was a CIA buddy of Barr’s according to the rumor. The rumor was supposedly sourced by certain career agents who had been conducting investigation of Clinton foundation and wanted her charged for various perceived violations of law, essentially, influence peddling during her term as Secretary of State. But nothing came of that and these agents were very angry about it and whispered that the Durham inquiry would meet the same fate, a whitewash. A fake investigation. This is what the fellow claimed. I was not sure of his bona fides, so I made the link without claiming it to be true. I did not and don’t know.
But perhaps one of the telltales was Barr saying up front that Biden and Obama were offlimits. Why? if the investigation which was not and is not done, if it lead to them, why would they be off limits? There is no law which puts them off limits.
Moreover, why did Barr say any such thing at the time at all ? DoJ policy is not to comment on pending investigations
Indeed I wondered the same thing when he made his comment about the elections. Clearly there were investigations pending and not complete: he said, “I have not seen anything yet.” Well. That means they are not done and the SOP is to refrain from any comment. So, did Barr decide up front, what the investigators would find?
I leave it to the reader to draw their own inferences. My tend to go towards the “Deep State” sort of explanation, and reinforce my conclusion that the federal regime is corrupt beyond repair and in need of thorough organic and fundamental restructuring.
A restructuring that will lead to a new government that does not allow billionaires to play the government like a marionette.
Saloth Sar
Young, feel free to show us supporting articles from recognized sources. And please explain why courts completely missed these irregularities. Bear in mind that Republicans control Michigan’s legislature.
If you think it is bad now, wait until see Joe Biden enter office and soon removed. said, assuming the fraudulent 2020 presidential election is allowed to stand, look for Democrat bigshots to order Biden to step aside shortly after he is inaugurated. The excuse he will be instructed to give is that even though his son is the victim of “Russian disinformation,” he has decided to step aside so as to spare Americans the pain of having to endure an ugly spectacle created by deplorable Trump supporters. Selah
No education. Ocasio the prime example. Schumer back stabbing for second place.
AOC is quite a bit smarter than you are. More patriotic too.
AOC is the girl from an impecunious family in the New York City exurbs who (1) traveled out of state for her tertiary schooling; (2) insisted on attending a private research university; (3) got a degree in an academic rather than a vocational subject; (4) got a degree in IR for whatever reason; (5) never got any proper vocational training there or later; (6) flitted from one dead-end job and one side activity or another for seven years; (7) has never bother to marry her very patient paramour or have any children.
So very smart.
Your description tells us more about your values than it does about her intelligence or patriotism in comparison to Michael.
Now give us your description for Michael.
Anony, I guess that depends on YOUR definition of what patriotic is. Or does it depend on what is is?
My definition includes a commitment to the Constitution (I swore an oath before serving overseas, and members of Congress do too) and caring about the well-being of the country and everyone in it. How about yours?
Lawyers swear an oath to it too. And then the big shots work hard to trash it in the sneakiest ways imaginable.
So that it now only works as tool for the plutocracy
It’s not clear why somebody on the patriotic side should continue to work for a Constitution that exists mostly in name only anymore
Somebody convince me that loyalty to a piece of paper that is twisted now only to serve the billionaires is proper.
Perhaps we who who worry about it now are anything more than suckers? Please inform me. Im all ears! Turley, anybody?
Saloth Sar
Get ready for Civil War American.
Civil War is inevitable. 585 million guns and billions of rounds of ammo in the hands of citizens. Democrat Socialist haven’t a clue as to what’s coming.
Pelosi thinks $600 is significant as they gave away MILLIONS to foreign countries and large companies. Tax breaks for meals???? After you destroyed our lives $600 is an insult.
Civil War 2.0 has been here for a while. Stop with the warnings. It is here…now
The liburturd trolls on here dont do this for sh!ts and giggles. Theirs is a war online to accompany the war Democrats have waged on America since the 1960s.
and we will lose the civil war without some serious reformation of our political doctrines away from idolizing “freedom” at every turn for the individual when it comes every time at the expense of the community. billionaires have made sure everybody is too selfish to see beyond their own perceived “liberties” which usually end at their doorstep, locked up as we are now
and we will lose the civil war if we also do not learn from successful countryside based civil wars of the past., the closest analogy to what exists today is the Chinese Civil war but we find outselves, ironically, in the place of the rural peasants lead by communists, against the corrupt coastal regime lead by the nationalists, who were nationalists in name only, grown fat on trading with foreigners. just as our own do
Saloth Sar
Democrats wanted more than $600. Republicans were the ones who limited it and fought for tax breaks for business lunches.
Strange that you feel insulted by Democrats and not by Republicans.
To Anon. – Better to have a job than a handout. Tax breaks for business keeps them in business (hopefully). I am insulted by the Dem’s for closing down so many states forcing business to go out of business. Where will your next job come from? Recruitment of rioters?
Trump’s inept handling contributed to people being out of jobs. Tax breaks for business lunches don’t benefit the small businesses that are struggling, as they’re not having business lunches. That’s a write-off for the wealthy.
Oh, so the lowest unemployment for Blacks, Mexican Americans, and functionally for Whites too. You can deny and U probably will, but you can’t make up your own facts. Tax breaks for business creates jobs, but you wouldn’t know that unless you started and owned your own company. It creates jobs by the business owner keeping more income so he/she can hire additional people. You clearly demonstrate that you really don’t know how a capitalist economy works.
The Covid relief bill is 5593 pages long. Who’ are you kidding, we’re insulted by all politicians.
You left out the fact that the Dems Global Reset paymasters created a scamdemic in order to crater the economy and get rid of Trump. When it became obvious that wasn’t going to work, they fixed the election.
Trump’s number one sin was that he got elected running on the same populist platform as Obama.
His second biggest sin was that he refused to keep feeding American soldiers into middle eastern wars.
You are only capable of engaging in us vs them binary thinking. Critical thinking is a foreign concept to you.
here read the poohbah of the Davos billionaires tell us the plan
https://www.santander.com/en/press-room/insights/capitalism-reset-and-new-social-contract-post-covid-19-crisis#:~:text=In%20this%20article%20Klaus%20Schwab,our%20economic%20and%20social%20systems.
this guy is our enemy
Saloth Sar
JP. Crap, don’t tell em our plans. Else they might try to git our guns from us. Shisssss 🙂
“Public education is not about wealth distribution. It should be a place for all families — wealthy and impoverished — to experience a common education, including important civics courses.”
I admire the sentiment, Professor Turley, but I disagree. Public education is doomed. The left attaches themselves to media and education like parasites. That’s their vocational bias, and it always devolves into a hivemind of defiant stupidity. Even private schools are not immune to this, but they at least give parents a real choice.
Europe and Asia have less public education and better results.
We need to privatize and use vouchering. Some schools can choose to be “voucher only” as a way to encourage diversity and equal access. If that philosophy gets good results, parents will be happy to send their kids there. In many cases, it’s bound to get good results.
If a women has a right to choose, why can’t she choose where to send her child for education? Why does she only get to choose when the left says she can choose?
Choice is not choice until the Democrats ram it down your throat…then its choice
Not me above.
Carry on J… O..
It is you. You lie 24/7 but liars gotta lie
It’s not him, as it totally obvious from the icons.
I guess you know about liars lying from your personal experience.
“ ….public education…..is about guaranteeing common education and opportunities for all citizens”
that has worked really well for Americans
/sarc
Remarkably feckless of New York’s electorate to put him in the mayor’s chair. I get the impression that in blue cities, the most important vector influencing voting behavior is the inclination to vandalism.
Note diBlasio’s education and employment history. He knows nothing in the abstract or in the particular about productive activity.
subjectivism loses every time. But ….given who they voted for is there any real need for education in NYC?
The 6th point is what has Dalton parents heading for the door. And is support for the manifesto on the part of the Dalton administrators an admission that Dalton has been a racist institution?
A quote about the two tragedies in life has been attributed to many people including G.B. Shaw — but Oscar Wilde was first.
The first tragedy is not getting what you want. The second is getting what you want and that is worse than the first.
I think half of the country is going to realize the truth of the second tragedy.
Did Trump supporters experience tragedy by electing him?
Elation but nothing to equal watching the citizens when they realize there IS NO MORE country, therefore No government.
“ The first tragedy is not getting what you want.”
Meh.
Democrats lost the White House fairly when Trump won but they rioted, pilfered, murdered, committed arson and use a flu like illness to bankrupt America, the Treasury and make Americans pussies
Lesson here: if you dont get what you want, act like a Democrat.
Civil War is inevitable. 595 million guns and billions of rounds of ammo in the hands of citizens. Lockdowns and the destruction of our lives only add to the anger.
You’re planning to fight the US military?
In Revolutionary France much of the military switched sides.
Annie – What gives you the impression that the active military, retired military and military vets will fight on the side of the Marxist/communists and against their families and friends, if such a calamity should occur?
I personally don’t want to see a civil action of any type.
I do want to see our law enforcement and military if necessary take action against corrupt marxist politicians, Antifa, BLM and any other organization bent on the destabilization of my country. As for Dalton or any other overpriced school open your doors and turn it over to the public.
I expect the active military to obey their oaths and follow orders. If civilians attempt to start a civil war, those civilians are anti-American and should be checked by the military.
I expect the active military to obey their oaths and follow orders.
We will follow lawful orders. By the way, anti-American civilians have already started a civil war. Pro-American civilians will respond to a threat to their lives, liberty and property. This is not that difficult to understand.
If you think someone has started a civil war, you need your head checked.
All politics is a continuum of force. At one end is war. Diplomacy is along the middle. Quotidien politics is at the whiter end.
We have moved very far and very fast to the blacker end of the continuum which is war
Consult the work of Carl Schmitt
Saloth Sar
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schmitt/
Don’t be so naïve. The nanosecond this republic was established was the beginning of our civil war. On one side exists those committed to the equal security of rights and on the other are those hostile to that security. The only reason you don’t see it is because you’ve been conditioned by the political class to believe it’s about anything and everything else. You’ve allowed yourself to be divided by party, race, income, policies, location, climate, health, etc. Government is established for the sole purpose of making our rights secure. Nothing else. They are to use their lawmaking powers for that purpose. When they fail that duty, laws are challenged through the courts. These are typically peaceful battles in this war. Sometimes the battles are less peaceful. Sometimes they end up in hot wars like in 1861. So yes, we will always be in a civil war. The only question is how much the people will tolerate before it escalates to another hot war. I happen to believe we are close.
The military won’t get involved if they can avoid it. They might weigh in if a stalemate goes on for too long. In that event, they’ll let both sides whittle each other down so that the military won’t have as much opposition, political or otherwise. That was basically the psychology behind our intervention in WWI and it was hugely successful for us in every respect. For Europe, not so much. Democrats and Trump supporters be forewarned.
Could be Diogenes, good speculations, worthy of consideration!
the future may see a lot of unexpected fragmentations as localities, states, businesses, and coherent outfits like the military each chose their own path through the fog carefully!
Here’s a great book that im reminded of: Decline of the State by martin Van Creveld. Check it out! Look for the stuff about Lebanon
Saloth Sar
I’ve read Creveld before and liked him. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Another successful revolt from the countryside was lead by the Khmer Rouge, who ousted the corrupt regime of Lon Nol, with a rural based insurrection. Perhaps people who live in flyover should study the successes of Asian communists, who lead national revolts against big city tyrants who were fat on profits coming from trade with foreigners.
Which is precisely what our billionaires and their big city lackeys are today. Comprador elites, grown fat on betraying fellow Americans with decades of offshoring, outsourcing, deindustrialization, financialization, digitization, ie, endless money tricks that made them into the billionaires they are today as we suck wind and get poorer all the time.
Saloth sar
Kurtz’s hero’s biggest legislative victory was a huge tax cut for corporations that working class people will be paying for for a decade. Real working class hero.
If the US military oppresses the people, rather than just the usual federal tyrants, then it will be another matter altogether.
I observe that the US military failed in Afghanistan, at supporting a corrupt big city government in Kabul, when they could never control the countryside
You can bet they would be even less successful if they tried to fight Americans in flyover
If people are interested in such a theoretical possibility, study the military history of the Chinese Civil war. Here’s a hint however. We the people out in flyover will be in a similar position to the peasants who were lead in revolt by the Communists. rather than the coastal regime of the KMT which was filled with corrupt, billionaire lackeys who grew fat on trading with foreigners.
And you know how that turned out. It was the countryside and the peasants that won, not the coastal regime full of corrupt politicians that had grown fat trading with foreigners.
Saloth Sar
Indeed. Republicans should understand the effectiveness of the tactics of the Democrats and take the obvious conclusions
Adapt. improvise, and overcome– or keep on failing
Saloth Sar
I’ll give you another interesting twist. Even if the coastal billionaires are successful in militarily defeating fly-over country, it won’t be long before the east-coast country club and west-coast country club start quarreling over who runs the golf course.
The historical analog is East and West Pakistan. They were united when they broke away from India, but eventually hated each other and split, East Pakistan becoming Bangladesh. They fought a real war over it.
So if the CA tech monopolists and NY hedge-fund managers think they’re going to be running everything while separated by 2,000 miles of resentful territory, they need to think harder about that. Their geostrategic model won’t hold more than one generation at best.
And maybe that’s what the tech monopolists want. Get rid of fly-over country, get rid of the east coast, and start their own little Sweden on the Pacific. Only problem is, with the rest of us divided and isolated from the Pacific, Beijing won’t be Mr. Nice Guy to California anymore. They won’t need to be. Again, that geostrategic model won’t last–if you can even call it a strategy.
Very good observations and speculations Diogenes! Bring us more of that red meat. Awesome!
Saloth Sar
I think we have the makings of an alliance 🙂
What I find interesting is that you keep writing about these “troubling” statements and actions as if they were the exception and not the rule in your party. The Democrat party you grew up with and/or in is not the Democrat party of today. (Same for the GOP but that’s another subject). The Democrat party of today is, as Trump has correctly stated, merely a Trojan horse for a globalist takeover. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of traditional old school Democrats around. There are. They are undoubtedly the majority. However they are no longer in control of your party. You are no longer in control of your party. Democrats are no longer running the Democrat party. It is a shame that the self-appointed intellectual elites use their intellect to do mental gymnastics to justify the unjustifiable rather than opening their eyes to reality. You are so concerned with identifying every leaf on every tree that you fail to see the forest. And we will all pay a very high price for it.
deb, I see you’ve been trained well by your handlers, but it’s the Democratic Party. You know, like the Republicanista Party.
And if Turley is in it, I’m Scarlett Johansson’s Moroccan lover.
The Democrat Party is walking the Green Mile, they just don’t know it yet.
Tick tock…
Between Mondale’s loss in ’84 and Clinton’s win in ’92, there was what might be termed a hostile takover of the Democratic Party by Clinton & cpy., who defeated Brown & cpy. for control of the DP, with the help of never-Browns and the NYT.
Since 1992, the party has ceased to be the party of the workers, which is the party my parents and supported, and become the party of a small group of political operatives who have created a new base and radically changed the values of the party, which used to struggled for equality and now, apparently, stands for equity.
The Republican Party has also changed, especially during in the past four years, in large part due to the shift of values within the Democratic Party.
Turley, as well as many of those who voted for BIden & Harris, appear to believe that the Democrats still represent the values of the older party and seek to appeal to the same base as they did in the 1980s. That is not the case.
The Democrats lost a large part of my generation in ’68, in Chicago. They lost the upwardly mobile types after Mondale and Dukakis lost in ’84 and ’88. I suspect they lost the union members after NAFTA and the relocation of millions of jobs to China.
I suspect Turley still thinks of himself as a Democrat simply because he cannot think of himself as a Republican. I left both parties behind many years ago.
I was thinking about the inauguration. If the Supreme Court doesn’t say NO administering the required oath of office would constitute a crime in itself as would Biden and Harris taking the oath of office. And the Military does not at that point uphold it’s oath of office declaring martial law and drag the country like it or not kicking and screaming if they want to back Under The Constitution then there truly is NO Country no Constitutional Republic, No United States of America, Just fifty independent Nation States. De Blasio and Cuomo can do what they want. so can California and Kansas.
Of course there is a fine line where the military oath would come into play. At the exact moment that occurs their Oath of Office has about one second to be announced Otherwise……. The 50 nation states recreated would be busy creating 50 mini new nations. How to stop this and regain sanity?
Our Father… who art……
Can you imagine the mess putting that back together without an entity like the military?
Cry Havoc and let loose the dogs of war Chief Justice.
deboluccia…afraid you are right. DeBlasio’s going to extinguish capitalism any way he can, and he’s now on his 3rd strategy I guess. And this is great, too: “Abolishing high-level academic courses by 2023 if the performance of black students is not on par with non-blacks.” Yeah, that’s the way to fix the problem.If Blacks aren’t as smart as other kids, take the other kids’ advanced courses away, because, yeah, we’d rather be dumb together than smarter alone. DeBlasio is apparently one of those kids who always got a “participation” trophy in the school games where they don’t keep score. My daughter’s high school principal told me she would not be allowed to wear her honor cords at graduation because “it makes the kids who don’t have them feel bad.” The fact will always remain that if I work harder than you do, I will do better than you do, all other things equal. Yes, there are injustices to be addressed. I would rather focus on more opportunity, scholarships, whatever…than to take away the advanced courses. Apparently he doesn’t have to worry about New Yorkers being too smart…they elected him, right?
He’s not called deBozo for no reason.
Mr. De Blasio is an idiot.
The question is why are New Yorkers showing Illinois level competence in picking their politicians?
Monument: the billionaires control big cities like Chicago and NYC. They always install these fake pinkos to confuse people into misunderstanding that they, the billionaires, are actually firmly in control
Sal Sar