Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Hey, teach, ever hear of Socrates?

It occurs to me that if American school kids are illiterate and have no appreciation for this country, it isn't hard to figure out why. Just look at their teachers.

Yeah, look at them. Being unionized because they don't have the guts or capability to negotiate their own pay and benefits, I'm assuming they're largely democrats. Or at least represented by democrats, who are funded largely by unions. Sounds kinda like a dog chasing his tail, doesn't it?

At any rate, these idiots lose an election because the rest of the nation is slowly circling the drain economically, and as a consequence -- THROUGH THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL PROCESS --  the unions are losing their bargaining power. And these are only the public employee unions, you know. In the private sector, employees figured out a long, long time ago they were better off without labor unions, which only held them back.

So, no, if their party loses an election and they're compelled to participate in what's been touted by their "leaders" as "shared sacrifice," then all bets are off for them. They don't like democracy anymore. Maybe mob action, but not the peaceful, rational kind that's embedded in our constitutional republic.

Yet they complain about their "rights." Individuals have rights. Unions don't. Governments don't. Only individuals have rights.

The unionized teachers and their democrat reps are losing the game, so they're just going to take their ball and go home, like the snotty, spoiled little punks they are. Think they've been too long sucking the public tit? Lost all their pride and self-respect?

These people are teaching American children about civics? No wonder the under-21 crowd voted for the Comrade. For them it has nothing to do with principle or honor or individuality. It's all about the "free" ride -- the one that Somebody Else pays for.

These silly asses who have been hired as teachers, perhaps have never heard of Socrates. They claim to be "educated," but probably went through the public schools with half-assed instructors like themselves, then  spent their college years getting drunk and laid. Apparently they entirely missed all that jazz about Socrates. After all, Socrates is just a dead white male, right?

Socrates lived in Ancient Athens. Mainly he spent his life hanging on street corners and telling people what he thought about things. He believed in democracy and preached democracy, and developed a following of younger people.

Their parents became concerned about this. Athens was democratic, but their majorities elected tyrants who had absolute power to run the state, so in many ways, it really wasn't so very different from the way we do it now.

Anyway, the parents of Socrates' youthful fan club got very concerned that Socrates was subversive in some way. They accused him of something like contributing to the delinquency of minors. He was found guilty and sentenced to death.

In those days, the way they did a death sentence was they made you drink hemlock. Socrates drank the hemlock. He said because he'd always preached democracy, and it was a democracy that had condemned him. So he stuck by his principles. There's this very moving painting by this French guy named David that dramatizes it. If any of you "teachers" have any interest in culture, you might look that up. Maybe you could even learn something.

So look at it this way, unionized teachers -- nobody's asking you to drink hemlock, even though you could be accused of contributing to the delinquency of minors. Personally, I think you should all be fired. Just fired. And you will be -- no one can afford to deal with your bullshit anymore. It's that simple.

But you're not taking my country down with you. You are dispensable. The USA is not.

Save the Republic.

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