The rise of education TEA Parties?

When Brandon Michon took to the microphone to tell the Loudoun County School Board that they'd better reopen schools or else (the or else is implied), he restarted a dormant revolution that was once known as the TEA Party. (It's TEA Party because TEA is the acronym for Taxed Enough Already.)

Back in 2009, people rallied against the Obama administration. Specifically, people protested against the Affordable Care Act, aka the ACA, aka Obamacare, and Obama's tax hikes. The protesters' frustration with the Obama administration was palpable. But I digress.

Back to Mr. Michon. At the Feb. 2, 2021 meeting, Michon said "Like so many other families, we're just pivoting and adjusting and the desire to send children back to school is because we really believe the education there is integral for both their mental side and their development."

At this week's Loudoun County School Board meeting, the superintendent shut down public comment. Just 51 of the 259 parents who signed up to speak got to speak. 2 people were arrested.

It isn't just Loudoun County that's uprising. It's happening in Fairfax County, VA, too. It's happened in Southlake, TX, Granite, UT, New Jersey, Oregon and NY State. The 'silver lining' to the pandemic was that parents got exposed to the things that their kids were getting taught. Whether we're talking about in-person learning, Critical Race Theory or transgender issues, people are figuring out that the 'Education Community' (the school boards + the teachers unions) are authoritarians.

The people banding against the Education Community's agenda aren't strictly conservative. These protesting parents were all political stripes going in. At this point, though, they aren't progressive. They won't all vote for Republicans but they're embittered against Democrats.

This is the the parent who got arrested getting interviewed by Tucker Carlson:

What happened to Jon Tigge shouldn't have happened. Whether you like or dislike what he had to say, what he did was protected by the First Amendment. Further, the school board doesn't have the right to declare people gathered in a public building for a meeting open to the public to be tresspassers. What part of public building for a public meaning don't these authoritarians understand?

Predictably, Democrats on the Loudoun County School Board overplayed their hand. They breathed life into a dormant movement. Now, that fever is spreading nationwide. Democrats only have themselves to blame. The Democrats' arrogance was stifling and off-putting.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Is Joe Biden our Grifter-in-Chief?

Image
Apparently, Joe Biden doesn't care about the law or Supreme Court rulings. When asked about the ruling on his student loan bailout, Biden said that the Supreme Court misinterpreted the Constitution. He knows they didn't. That's just what he said to preserve the opportunity to introduce his next unconstitutional plan that will get rejected by the Supreme Court. This isn't about whether it's constitutional. It's about whether he can con enough young people into voting for him in 2024. Biden must've anticipated this ruling. Within an hour of the ruling, the Administration was out with this detailed fact sheet to replace the plan that he knew would fail. It opens with the same partisan attack as Democrats have mouthed. The fact sheet opens by saying "No President has fought harder for student debt relief than President Biden, and he’s not done yet. President Biden and Vice President Harris will not let Republican elected officials succeed in denying hard
Read more

Tim Walz's Confederate Flag Fiasco

Image
After Minnesota's Democrats shoved the most controversial progressive legislation down Minnesotans' throats, gossip started popping up about Gov. Walz being interested in running for president . That's died off but Gov. Walz is still making headlines, this time for all the wrong reasons. First, Gov. Walz isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Still, Gov. Walz is fighting against Minnesota's history. This Alpha News article quotes David Hann, the chairman of Minnesota's Republican Party, as saying " The flag the DFL has eliminated was a version of the historic flag our regiments fought under during the Civil War. Minnesota was the first state to offer troops to the Union cause in 1861 , beginning a long tradition of leading the nation in confronting injustice. The DFL quest to erase our history is repugnant and should be rejected." Gov. Walz, though, sees things differently. He's quoted as saying "Minnesota is a diverse state, it continue
Read more

Maria Bartiromo's interrogation of Gov. Ron DeSantis

Image
Yesterday, Maria Bartiromo interrogated Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday Morning Futures. The first half of the interview, Bartiromo asked policy questions. Gov. DeSantis showed his understanding of the issues and presented his solutions on everything from China, inflation and growing the economy. The first reply he had was to cut spending. His next reply was to open energy production. Third, he talked about the importance of increasing productivity, which he correctly said is the best way to eliminate inflation. A little over half the way through the interview, though, it turned into an attack. Bartiromo asked "I'm wondering what's going on with your campaign. There was a lot of optimism about you running for president earlier in the year but here's this weekend's headline from the Politico Playbook: Failure to launch. Gov. Ron DeSantis's campaign to topple Donald Trump has stalled. We are way behind says a top DeSantis PAC official. What happened? Despite that bad
Read more