Liberals Flunk Vocational Education
Labor Day comes and goes each year and the reason for it fades into the past. Then comes the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne to remind us: In an opinion typical of the left wing media, Dionne makes the vain attempt to portray Republicans, Fox News, the Tea Party and those of similar views as opponents of labor. I can’t speak for Fox News, but know many Republicans and so have knowledge of their opinions, and, as I consider myself a Tea Party supporter, can speak as well as anyone for them.
Dionne has it backwards. That he has it backwards is typical of the left, as one mode of their propaganda is to intentionally reverse the truth in the attempt to attach results of their policies to the other side. Denigration of labor is another of those instances.
Some years ago, decades now, public schools were to educate the children. The NC State Constitution says: “Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” The Constitution was written in 1971, not so far back in history. At that time public high schools had shop, wood-working, agriculture, and similar classes for those who had no interest in going on to college. The public schools were going to educate those children as well, and make sure they had the mental and social tools necessary to get and keep a job.
Then comes the liberal education establishment. Nothing would do except that every student should go to college. Think on this. What does it say to those who aren’t mentally able? What does it say to those who aren’t interested in the jobs colleges have to offer? What does it say to those who want to repair cars, build houses, drive heavy equipment, build motors, work in warehouses, make paper, bottle soda and beer, repair air conditioners, or drive a truck?
It tells them they are making poor choices. Giving them no support, no options, no classes of interest in their lives, the liberals made sure that those who were going to work with their hands were thought less of … by their teachers, by their classmates and by themselves. Now EJ Dionne comes tells us that this is the fault of the Tea Party and friends. I say BS.
If anything, this attitude is to be credited to the EJ Dionnes of the world. By taking away education for legitimate choices, by making those choices seem less, by intentionally removing opportunities for those choices, the left attempted to make labor a second-rate decision. But this is their way. In every case they use class distinctions as their operating method. They use class envy as a tool in their attempt to remake the world. The problem is they have no vision of the world, only that they don’t like it as it is.
Let us be clear then of the results of this one policy, of taking educational opportunities away from children. The children have less interest in school. They don’t do as well. They drop out. They don’t get an education in those essentials they need for their lives. They feel second-class and less a part of society. They do poorly and have less pride in themselves and their work.
This is the success of the left.
What do Tea Party supporters want? Less government and government that helps, not hinders. What do Republicans want? An education for all the children, and people who want to be good at their jobs, efficient and paid well.
There are two ways to look at the results of the two sides: Tea Party supporters, and those generally on the right, want a return to the type of government that supported the people in making this country a world leader in almost everything.
Those on the left who embrace anti-exceptionalism oppose that success and leadership and so change everything they can about it while pretending to wonder what happened. They know, of course, but cannot accept credit without accepting responsibility; so they blame others. Typical of a child, they run around breaking things and tearing things up and when asked by responsible adults what happened, they point to others.
Labor is necessary to this country, to any country. We should treat it so. The first thing we need do is return vocational education to every high school. I expect the liberals will avoid that choice; but hey, the unpleasant results aren’t their fault! Just ask them. They’ll blame someone else.
We need your help! If you like PunditHouse, please consider donating to us. Even $5 a month can make a difference!
Short URL: https://pundithouse.com/?p=7263
