The problem of course is that kids aren’t stupid, and they know when they’re being pandered to.
They know when they’re patted on the head and told that they’re doing a good job when they know themselves that they’re not measuring up. We also know that kids thrive when they are held to account—any parent can tell you that.
When a child is expected to live up to a certain measure of responsibility, kids are able to thrive with that. They need that, they need to be able to take care of themselves.
Any kid know this, so when we treat them like they’re idiots—that they need to have interpretive dance lessons in order to learn math—they see right through that.
This is not reality—we’re accepting the terms of leftist indoctrination. — Libby Emmons, senior editor, Post Millennial
Every time something like this comes down the leftist pike, I wonder what people in China, Japan, India—any number of countries—think. Do they laugh hysterically? Do they simply shake their heads and say to themselves, “The Americans are idiots.”? ...
The Looney Tunes Left: Gleefully destroying the ability of America’s youth to compete in the real world, one math problem at a time. — Mike Miller, columnist, RedState
Scott Hounsell: It seems everything with liberalism is about two things: force and, as a direct result, hypocrisy. Whether it is taxes, speech, or any of the other 100 different ways it seeks to control your life, the inherent requirement for the left’s enforcement mechanism of their grandiose ideological quest is always force. Don’t pay your taxes? Force. Don’t want to buy an electric car? Force. Don’t want to believe that a man can become a woman? Force. And as we have been seeing more recently, decide you don’t want to get vaccinated? Force. ...
If you think that climate change is as big of a threat as you constantly lecture us that it is, why don’t you just volunteer to make the changes in your life to combat it? ...
If, again, climate change was such a grave threat to our existence, and immediate action is necessary, why would you only give up some? Why would you not give it all up? Why wouldn’t you take the totality of the action available to you, with as much ...
Anony Mee: Joe is building a more impoverished populace, a diminished and less robust commercial sector, and a disheartened electorate. Republicans must pound this message home and give this administration a daily beat-down from now until November 2022. It’s the very least Joe’s minions deserve.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/joes_tricky_tax_trick.html
Spruce Fontaine: How does one debate with a side that claims with a straight face that the supply chain problems are an indicator that President Brandon has fixed the recession (according to Sec. Buttigieg) or that the $3.5-trillion infrastructure package is already paid for?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/slumming_in_america_off_borrowed_moral_capital.html
