Stupid Americans

Stupid Americans

Blame Government Schools

By Mark Luedtke

Dayton’s Conspiracy Theorist

In the last month we’ve witnessed stupid on parade in America to an extent never before seen in our lifetimes. Here are a few examples:

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently introduced what is being called a green new deal. According to The Washington Post, it calls for meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources, repairing and upgrading the infrastructure in the United States, including . . . by eliminating pollution and greenhouse gas emissions as much as technologically feasible, and building or upgrading to energy-efficient, distributed, and ‘smart’ power grids, and working to ensure affordable access to electricity, upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximal energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, including through electrification.

It would also ban air travel and require connecting the continents with high speed rail. All done in ten years.

If the green new deal stopped there, it would be a joke. We would all starve to death if we were forced to try and implement this. Poverty, starvation and disease always follow socialism because socialism can never work.

But Cortez didn’t stop there. She added guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States, Providing all people of the United States with — (i) high-quality health care; (ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing; (iii) economic security; and (iv) access to clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, and nature, and providing resources, training, and high-quality education, including higher education, to all people of the United States.

You don’t have to be an economist to recognize her aspiration is impossible. Even if people wanted to do this voluntarily, they couldn’t. Not in ten years. Maybe not in 100. It would require diverting capital and labor from wealth-producing activities and kill nearly all of us because of it. People would never stand for it, rulers would have to physically enslave everybody in the country as a result, and it would still fail spectacularly like the Soviet Union, Chinese communism, and every other deeply socialist experiment.

In support of the green new deal, avowed communist Democratic Sen. Cory Booker compared fighting global warming to fighting Nazis in WWII.

Activists used a bunch of brainwashed children to stage a political stunt by having them demand Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein support the green new deal.

Like Cortez, these poor children have been brainwashed into believing the world will end in ten years if we don’t adopt this boondoggle.

In response to criticism, Cortez fell back on the mantra all rulers embrace: she declared, “I'm the Boss… How 'bout that!” What a great reminder that government attracts corrupt people to work for it, it corrupts them more, and the worst of them rise to the top.

But the green new deal was so stupid and so bad for Democrats, somebody erased it from Cortez’s congressional website.

Now a bunch of students plan to strike on March 15 to force rulers to address the great global warming scam.

In the meantime, New Yorkers are facing gas shortages despite sitting on a large gas-shale deposit because the state’s rulers won’t allow the gas to be extracted.

I’m sure Cortez and the students who ambushed Feinstein were born with normal intelligence. I’ve never heard a parent say their child, five and under, was stupid. But Cortez and the other children mentioned have become stupid. The question is how do smart children become so stupid as they become educated.

The question answers itself. Government schools, which are socialist schools, don’t educate children. They miseducate them. They brainwash them. They promote socialism, not education. They promote political agendas, not education.

Parents try to put their children in the best schools, but those efforts are misguided. After 40 years under the federal Department of Education, there’s no such thing as a good government school. They all promote socialism over education. Some are worse than others, and the “best” schools are often the best at miseducating children, not educating them.

As socialism advances even the smart managers at Apple, insteading of maximizing value for their customers as they should, demand their suppliers go green, weakening our economy.

Government schools are to blame for the worst problems we face in this country: perpetual war, a declining economy, declining quality of healthcare, you name it. Educated people understand free markets and peaceful trade produce health and prosperity. Socialism destroys both.

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