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Baitball Blogger

(46,697 posts)
Mon May 9, 2022, 07:15 PM May 2022

What Republicans won't tell you aloud, but it's their Achille's Heel.

It's this: They don't like other people's children. Specifically, they don't want to spend a penny of their money on the public services and infra-structure required to raise a new generation of children. And local red governments don't want young adults in their cities, either, because of the fear in the rise of juvenile crime.

The only ones who want to build public schools are the good buddy developers who will receive federal and state money to make it worth their time. It's about the government money. It always is to Republicans. So, in Florida we watch helplessly as public school teachers and public school programs get throttled. It's constant harassment attacking them with mean-spirited Republican-style regulation. It's obvious that the goal is to end public school, so Tallahassee politicians can send tax dollars to private religious schools. They're on a destroy mission and aren't thinking of the countless number of young children raised in struggling homes, who will drop out of school, because they can't learn in a hostile school environment.

And, the best for last. That pesky juvenile crime rate that is associated with the young. That's a real boogey man in the suburbs. There is nothing worse to a Republican white suburban woman, than the fear of a young black person traipsing in the neighborhood, day or night. It's such a fear in the suburbs that the young can be zoned out of white islands, like they did in my City and like they did in the Villages. Forced to accept high density housing, my City found a work around by zoning the buildings for Seniors only. On another part of the City there is affordable high density homes built across from a new school that advertises itself as a "classical Christian school." When it was first approved in the nineties (or maybe early century), the word was that the housing was meant for families that would attend the private school. Can they even do that legally? Look to the Supreme Court for guidance on that one.

In sum, Republicans haven't thought this one out. I was a child of the sixties. I remember we were here in great numbers, and the one thing conservative parents could count on, was that we did not respect their way of life. They were hypocrites, hokey. In a world with social media, there will be no limit to the shit we're going to hear about what goes on in their religious households.

This is a preventable disaster and someone should bring it to their attention. Right now they're too busy laughing it up because they think we have to accept the word of the five liars on the Supreme Court. I say we keep hitting them with the cost expectation for their decision. The Congress has to justify the costs for the programs they bring to the floor, so why doesn't someone do the cost analysis for Alito's folly, so we all get to know what we're getting into.

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What Republicans won't tell you aloud, but it's their Achille's Heel. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger May 2022 OP
They don't like other people's black or brown or poor children. Ocelot II May 2022 #1
Since the John Birch Society & before, RW extremists have wanted public schools destroyed. CousinIT May 2022 #2
Kochs are not the new JBS, they are the old one. 2Gingersnaps May 2022 #19
Yup. Our local school boards are under siege by these right wing fascists. nt SunSeeker May 2022 #20
Not sure what your point is Effete Snob May 2022 #3
But they aren't as overzealous as the hard, religious right are. Baitball Blogger May 2022 #8
I don't have any children and am not fine with no public schools... wcmagumba May 2022 #4
Me neither. I'd rather not be surrounded by idiots. Iggo May 2022 #11
They are selfish. madaboutharry May 2022 #5
Spot on. Diamond_Dog May 2022 #16
In the private school attended by my niece, it's the white privileged children who are rude, Samrob May 2022 #6
I have a relative who taught in both an inner City school in Youngstown Ohio and Baitball Blogger May 2022 #7
My husband is a retired teacher from Youngstown City Schools Diamond_Dog May 2022 #17
Yes, my cousin was a teacher, 2Gingersnaps May 2022 #21
Impact Analysis on Birth: Cost per child & can states handle adding tens of thousands per year? TheBlackAdder May 2022 #9
I support public schools even if I don't have kids.... electric_blue68 May 2022 #10
I want a community where everyone cares about each other. Baitball Blogger May 2022 #15
Agreed, they basically don't want *anybody* to get happy Baked Potato May 2022 #12
Great post. Let a rabid pit bull bite into the Achille's Heel, exposing the liars on the bench. n/t Evolve Dammit May 2022 #13
Why Not Just Ask CBO For An Estimate n.t DallasNE May 2022 #14
Yep I have heard them bitch about paying taxes for schools for other peoples kids. They doc03 May 2022 #18
Yep. Diamond_Dog May 2022 #22
They hold a racist belief that brown/black people breed like cockroaches IronLionZion May 2022 #23
Yep, they start chirping right after the last brown person leaves the room. Iggo May 2022 #24

CousinIT

(9,234 posts)
2. Since the John Birch Society & before, RW extremists have wanted public schools destroyed.
Mon May 9, 2022, 07:31 PM
May 2022

Kochs are the new JBS. The Tea Party was, also. Along with banning abortion, destroying public school is on their hit list. They're getting both wishes now.

2Gingersnaps

(1,000 posts)
19. Kochs are not the new JBS, they are the old one.
Mon May 9, 2022, 10:02 PM
May 2022

Their father was the co-founder, "klan in Brooks Brothers." They have been about this political climate since they built oil refineries for Hitler and then Stalin. They fought the New Deal tooth and toenail and have funded RW extremism since then. They are everything their sockpuppets accuse George Soros of being. As usual, every accusation is a confession. The "Tea Party" started out as an astroturf organization they and their ilk funded. Fake grass roots, like these trucker protests.

 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
3. Not sure what your point is
Mon May 9, 2022, 07:32 PM
May 2022

60% of all households do not have children. Many are fine with letting public schools collapse.

wcmagumba

(2,882 posts)
4. I don't have any children and am not fine with no public schools...
Mon May 9, 2022, 07:37 PM
May 2022

They greatly benefit both individuals and society as a whole... thugs=fascists....

madaboutharry

(40,199 posts)
5. They are selfish.
Mon May 9, 2022, 07:38 PM
May 2022

I've known a few republicans and when talking about spending money on the public good they always start their sentence with the same words: "Why should I......."

Diamond_Dog

(31,950 posts)
16. Spot on.
Mon May 9, 2022, 09:37 PM
May 2022

I get tired of hearing them complain about how they don’t have kids in public school so why should they have to pay taxes that supports schools. A relative once said to me, “I HATE that phrase ‘for the public good.’

Just tell them that a lot of childless people paid taxes to finance THEIR education .

I said this once to a relative and heard crickets in reply.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
6. In the private school attended by my niece, it's the white privileged children who are rude,
Mon May 9, 2022, 07:43 PM
May 2022

disobedient, disrespectful, hateful, ignorant, racist, sexist, and bullies.
The teachers are frustrated that they cannot control them and the parents think its no big deal if they leave the classroom when they want to to sit outside or in the bathrooms to smoke pot, drink beer, and have sex. We are talking about 7th through 12th graders.

In fact two girls in my niece's class have bragged to their circle of friends about getting pregnant and having abortions. (13 and 15). Black kids (rich or subsidized) are expelled for almost any infraction of the rules while the white kids sue, bring parents to scream at the school administrators or simply enroll their kids in another private school without any problems...no matter what there disciplinary record is.

Baitball Blogger

(46,697 posts)
7. I have a relative who taught in both an inner City school in Youngstown Ohio and
Mon May 9, 2022, 07:47 PM
May 2022

a private school in the Miami area. She couldn't believe how rude and disrespectful the rich kids were from the Miami school. Left teaching shortly afterwards.

Diamond_Dog

(31,950 posts)
17. My husband is a retired teacher from Youngstown City Schools
Mon May 9, 2022, 09:41 PM
May 2022

Yes they have their problems but he said no way would he have wanted to teach in the wealthier suburban schools, the parents there were the worst, their precious darlings never did anything wrong so everything was the mean teacher’s fault and the administration always sided with the parents.

2Gingersnaps

(1,000 posts)
21. Yes, my cousin was a teacher,
Mon May 9, 2022, 10:05 PM
May 2022

parents never attended their parent teacher conferences, they got no help at home, she sent home letters when kids had education issues, the parents never answered, showed up mad as hell at the end of the year when the kid was failing.

electric_blue68

(14,848 posts)
10. I support public schools even if I don't have kids....
Mon May 9, 2022, 08:46 PM
May 2022

I want black and brown kids to have as good education opportunity as I did as a white kid. Who knows how far many of them could have gone .

Baitball Blogger

(46,697 posts)
15. I want a community where everyone cares about each other.
Mon May 9, 2022, 09:23 PM
May 2022

And I don't mean in a good ole boy way, "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine". I feel like conservatives have to see what's innit for them before they even attempt to be friendly. And when they come, sniffing for advantage their manner is so false that they're easy to spot.

doc03

(35,321 posts)
18. Yep I have heard them bitch about paying taxes for schools for other peoples kids. They
Mon May 9, 2022, 09:44 PM
May 2022

went to public school, their kids went to public schools and they have grand children in public schools.

Diamond_Dog

(31,950 posts)
22. Yep.
Mon May 9, 2022, 10:19 PM
May 2022

They are selfish for the most part, especially in regards to anything “for the public good.”

IronLionZion

(45,404 posts)
23. They hold a racist belief that brown/black people breed like cockroaches
Mon May 9, 2022, 10:24 PM
May 2022

and live in small crowded apartments with large families sleeping on top of each other. I hear it all the time. Back when I had a shithole job without any US citizens, I often heard about how brown people like me must live like and how it was inferior to live like that.

Iggo

(47,545 posts)
24. Yep, they start chirping right after the last brown person leaves the room.
Thu May 12, 2022, 09:47 PM
May 2022

Sixty years of experience here, looking like my white momma instead of my very very brown daddy.

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