Me: Two parties aren’t delivering, we need genuine third parties!
— OutOfContextQuoteHat (@Popehat) January 18, 2022
Meanwhile, at third parties: pic.twitter.com/Of15Wq2UU8
Me: Two parties aren’t delivering, we need genuine third parties!
— OutOfContextQuoteHat (@Popehat) January 18, 2022
Meanwhile, at third parties: pic.twitter.com/Of15Wq2UU8
One of our two major parties, the Republicans are doing a such a bang up job we don't really need the even more fringe libertarians in NH.
ReplyDeleteThursday the state legislature is debating a "teacher loyalty" bill.
https://www.vnews.com/House-Republicans-file-teacher-loyalty-bill-43859599
Some quotes from the article:
Just one year after New Hampshire legislators first introduced a bill that banned the teaching or discussion of “divisive concepts” like systemic racism, another bill will be debated this legislative session that would take those restrictions further.
The proposed bill, HB 1255, is titled “An Act Relative to Teachers’ Loyalty,’ and seeks to ban public school teachers from promoting any theory that depicts U.S. history or its founding in a negative light, including the idea that the country was founded on racism.
The bill updates a piece of Cold War-era law that bans educators from advocating for communism in schools, and adds additional bans on advocating for socialism and Marxism.
“No teacher shall advocate any doctrine or theory promoting a negative account or representation of the founding and history of the United States of America in New Hampshire public schools which does not include the worldwide context of now outdated and discouraged practices,” the text of the proposed bill reads. “Such prohibition includes but is not limited to teaching that the United States was founded on racism.”
“Too often I’m running into too many students who don’t know anything about real history and stuff like that, because teachers spend too much time indoctrinating students about political things, which I don’t think teachers should be doing,” Lekas said.
Lekas believes that although slavery was a negative chapter in U.S. history, the historical context of the time isn’t given enough weight when it’s taught to students.
With legislators like these, who needs the Libertarians?
It's worth reading the whole article to understand our current state government and it's terror of anything with which they don't agree. Live Free or Die, as long as it doesn't sound like socialism. We have met the enemy and they are us.
“When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school/It’s a wonder I can think at all…”—Paul Simon
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