tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post505536249019414867..comments2024-03-29T08:07:48.935-04:00Comments on Waddy Is Right: Impeachment ManiaNicholas Waddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-47654125602226730302019-09-22T17:11:57.225-04:002019-09-22T17:11:57.225-04:00You're right, Jack -- school boards are one of...You're right, Jack -- school boards are one of our best hopes for the injection of some sanity in public ed. The more local control, the better!Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-63499568686498681192019-09-20T16:41:29.674-04:002019-09-20T16:41:29.674-04:00Dr. Waddy: Our school recently displayed a big ban...Dr. Waddy: Our school recently displayed a big banner lauding National Hunting Week. Just imagine! Local school boards(and the communities in which they reside) can be the battlegrounds for defeating leftist presumption and consequent pollution of our children. I saw it locally when an assertively radical teacher was given to understand she was unwelcome. Now, entire states are culturally akin to this rural, down to earth region. <br /><br />In order to hamstring "reactionary" school boards, radicals will seek in state educational bureaucracies and in legislatures to deprive local school boards of all power. That will be difficult in the Real America but in the People's Republic of NY, for example, it looms very plausible. At that point, communities may have to choose to violate state law, despite the promise of state (but maybe not Federal, defunding). That will necessitate mobilizing local populations but there is precedent for that in the "Dump the Dump" movement in our sleepy county. That learned Mario Cuomo real good! Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-38670702245802419182019-09-20T14:28:19.174-04:002019-09-20T14:28:19.174-04:00Well said, Jack. Impeachment is indeed a fundamen...Well said, Jack. Impeachment is indeed a fundamentally undemocratic process, insofar as it seeks to undo the decisions of the voters. No wonder Democrats have a soft spot for impeachment! Good point about 1974 too. Many establishment and older liberals see every issue in the context of their "heyday" in the 60s and 70s. Remember, in '74 they didn't just end the Nixon presidency, they also undid their own crushing electoral defeat in 1972. A twofer!<br /><br />Jack, your experience as a sub illustrates an important point: leftists don't need "ethnic studies" classes, or "environmental studies" classes, to insert their ideological agenda into public education. They do it constantly, overtly and covertly. The battle over ethnic studies in our state legislatures is in that sense merely hot air. The schools have already been captured by liberal ideologues. No policy will prevent these radicals from spreading their creed. It's a matter of "human error" -- the only way to fix it is by finding better, saner teachers.Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-79629976806733752472019-09-19T13:04:16.228-04:002019-09-19T13:04:16.228-04:00Sadly indoctrination is even earlier than what is ...Sadly indoctrination is even earlier than what is stated. Great thoughts Jack, I always enjoy them immensely. smilesLindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16466115918585699329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-8083894148339104762019-09-18T16:07:15.542-04:002019-09-18T16:07:15.542-04:00Dr. Waddy: The article on the spread of "ethn...Dr. Waddy: The article on the spread of "ethnic studies" defined and controlled by Marxists (which is evident from their animus to capitalism)is appalling. Aside from the measure taken in Indiana I see not yet convincing evidence of its manifest pollution of the real America but a leftist national government would make haste to effect that. <br /><br />Several thoughts occur to me. In the early '60's, the Malaysian Federation simply expelled Singapore because they feared that the numerous and assertive Singaporean Chinese would dominate. Perhaps the day will come when the real America, for its very survival, will have to expel CA and NY, for their shameful takeover by radicals (with ample compensation paid to loyal Americans in these states).<br /><br />Its an oft used tactic to turn two of one's enemies against one another. When I was a sub in our little country school I was required to read to 2ND! Graders a story about a planet enjoyed by peaceful green creatures until humans arrived and spoiled everything. Lets turn the "ethnic studies" advocates against those environmentalists who consider ALL of humanity to be evil. Maybe they will destroy each other in the resulting whirlwind of totalitarian doctrinal hurly burly! A modest proposal I suppose. <br /><br /> Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-86310294998759131012019-09-18T15:24:25.038-04:002019-09-18T15:24:25.038-04:00Dr. Waddy: Also, there is a simple two word answer...Dr. Waddy: Also, there is a simple two word answer to any Dem who accuses any Republican of moral turpitude: William Clinton. It is not surprising that a party which has never forgotten its victory in 1974 and its conviction in them of the efficacy of the politics of prosecution, has hit on "impeachment" as a means of ensuring their ultimate triumph. Since, in their minds they are "unimpeachably" just, they may well see no risk to them in this and,of course, they are as always sure of their moral superiority in using ANY tactic. <br /><br />Oh, I think the Dems are already trying to work the "impeachment" (in effect) of all Republican voters in Presidential elections at least: their impassioned assault on the Electoral College, would, they know, give California and NY full say in who wins. Without their popular vote majority in those states in 2016, Hillary would have lost the popular vote too. But it is not just the mathematical near certainty of this which drives them in this effort. Volcanic outrage at the insolence of the real America in denying them their rightful dominance generates in them determination to destroy a Constitutional measure specifically designed to deny elitists like them absolute sway through weight of numbers. We conservatives in NY know about that; we experience the resulting injustice and disdain on a continuing and intensifying scale and that is of course to be expected from fully empowered leftists.<br /><br />Just as the filibuster has become a custom, no longer even requiring sopoforic 3am marathons at the lectern, so also, this politics by impeachment may become institutionalized. It is, yet again, proof of the fundamental antidemocratic nature of the leftist disgraced Dem party. Put them on the margins for good; starting next year! Its the only way to stop their march to totalitarian complete control. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-13746000893593993562019-09-17T22:13:21.776-04:002019-09-17T22:13:21.776-04:00Jack, you're right, as always -- people can cl...Jack, you're right, as always -- people can cling to hope long after realism ought to have persuaded them to face the music. I think most Dems now know that impeachment is a fool's errand, but they just can't help themselves from pressing on. They had better be careful, though. At some point the internal logic of their own obsession may require them to VOTE on impeachment. As they say, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye -- or the House.Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-43247782461438292122019-09-17T16:51:52.020-04:002019-09-17T16:51:52.020-04:00Dr. Waddy: By the day after the election of 1864 i...Dr. Waddy: By the day after the election of 1864 it was obvious that the Confederacy had lost. But they fought on. When the Allies crossed the Rhine, Nazi Germany was finished and all well informed Germans knew it. Yet they fought on.<br /><br />The futile "impeachment" fantasy, on the heels of the completely discredited "collusion" farce is yet a continuing manifestation of a leftist dream that "something will stick". Until driven to the very margins of our polity in 2020 they will not abandon their insupportable quest for totalitarian sway in an unforgiveably, fundamentally free country. Even then they won't give up but it will be grimly funny to see them thrash. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.com