Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
The beauty of federalism is that, in some states, we patriots are nominally in charge. Places like California, New York, and Massachusetts are communist hellholes, and they remain communist hellholes because the communists in charge of those hellholes demand policies that ensure the perpetuation of their communist hellholedom. But good gravy, why are so many red states where we conservatives have the governor’s mansion and the legislature, and therefore the car keys to floor it on conservative policy, so damn spineless that we refuse to carve out the tumors of communist hellholedom that threaten to metastasize throughout our red paradises?
There are many such infested institutions, but let us focus on one of the most visible and most deadly to society because it infects and poisons the young people who will take leadership roles in society down the road (that they primarily come from colleges yet another problem). The fact is, even in red states that should damn well know better, state colleges and universities not only indoctrinate students in CRT garbage but actually build DIE infrastructures that perpetuate wokedom and crush the students who yearn to breathe and learn freely. We could stop it with a snap of our collective fingers, yet for some reason, Republicans seem terrified at the thought of offending the ragged collection of man-bunned TAs, tweed-jacketed dorks, craven, cat-fancying administrators, and daddy issue-smitten purple-haired co-eds who seem to run our colleges.
Our colleges. Ours. We, taxpayers, built them. We, taxpayers, pay for them. We, taxpayers, should dictate how they function. Why won’t we?
First of all, “we” does not include Ron DeSantis. The guy on the cutting edge of crushing CRT just gave all the public colleges in Florida a short fuse to report on their woke web of organizations and activities. The university eunuchs freaked, of course, claiming that this was just a first step toward wiping the slate clean on the government-funded woke fascism plaguing Sunshine State academia. Why diversity consultants may be fired, conformity enforcement teams curtailed, and kangaroo courts adjourned!
Yeah. Exactly. He’s going to destroy their dreams. It will be beautiful.
They should look on the bright side and celebrate the glory that is Our Democracy in action. We were told – by them and their allies endlessly over the last couple of years – that Our Democracy is facing the most perilous of perils. No longer! Heavy D ran on a platform of nuking woke and he’s simply giving the people what they wanted by about 20 percentage points.
So, why do they hate Our Democracy? Basically, if you don’t want him and his legislators to decree the policies the people have demanded – that not one red cent gets spent on this racist commie nonsense – then you are an insurrectionist of treason who hates America.
Oh wait, they are totally into that last part.
The Governor of the Falling Frozen Iguana State is also replacing the board of trustees of a super-liberal public college with people who don’t hate normal Americans, and that has the freakshow fuming. As regime media outlet Yahoo News put it, “DeSantis takes aim at Sarasota’s New College, transforms board in conservative overhaul.” He sure did! His new trustees include CRTslayer Christopher Ruto and a Hillsdale College professor. The pinkos are most perturbed at the thought of classes that teach actual history, actual literature, and actual knowledge instead of woke intersectional mind goo. And too bad for them – there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.
So where are the other red governors on this? Why is Greg Abbott not taking a break from failing to use his cops and soldiers to secure the Texas border and demanding his legislature defund the police haters, as well as the rest of the motley crew that controls Lone Star academia? The joke in Texas is that UT is Berkeley with BBQ, but why should that be? Ban all CRT crap, fire all the diversitycrats, mandate that all administrator ranks be slashed, and require that all faculty hiring include proportionate numbers of patriots, believers, veterans, and people who have actually had real jobs. After all, these are our states and there is no good reason we should be subsidizing the efforts of people who hate us to enslave us.
But, of course, soft Republicans resist imposing their iron discipline on academia. Why? Well, one reason is that the regime media will call them mean and they don’t like that. Or worse, the regime media will say they hate education. But they should hate education, at least the brand being foisted on our young people today. It’s not education. It’s a joke. There are zero excuses for a guy who sweats it out on an oil rig in the Permian Basin wringing oil out of the dirt under the blazing sun getting dunned by the state for tax money that then goes to underwrite some nose-pierced princess’s degree in Marxist puppetry. Or Marxist interpretive dance. Or anything Marxist, other than how to stamp out Marxism forever.
These are the RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel GOPers, the ones who just want to go along, get along, and lose (Fire Ronna by going to www.HireHarmeet.com and make your objections known to reelect the O-5 loser to another term).
But mostly, there is also the almost willful refusal of a lot of these Buick Republicans to understand and accept that college today is not like their alma mater of yesteryear. Nostalgia is, after all, a helluva drug. They remember their fraternities and sororities, their gentleman’s C grades, lots of Budweiser, and making out in the bushes around the quad. But that college experience is gone, washed away in a tsunami of political correctness and rigid, surveillance state thought control. They don’t get that the Lamda Lamda Lamdas and Omega Mus are not attending toga parties but mandatory training on microaggressions, their privilege, and the horror of patriarchy. Sure, it’s still fun to watch football, but tailgating before the big game against the University of College is where the similarity to their college years ends. Colleges are no longer campuses creating educated citizens; they are commie conformity factories run on our dime.
This must stop throughout our country, but it must first stop out in the red states. It’s a betrayal of the citizens of these states who are expected to pay for it and who want trained workers capable of contributing to society, not destroying it. It’s a betrayal of the few professors who want to teach students instead of converting them into CRT cliché- spewing automatons. And it’s a betrayal of the kids who just want to get a real degree and maybe score a little action without having to get a notarized certificate of consent before rounding second base.
Red state rulers, get on it because Ron DeSantis is again making most of the rest of you look like ineffectual saps.
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Red states need to secede, Colonel Laptop Bombardier. And there are no red states, you perennial ignoramus midwit. There are red areas (90% of America) and blue cities, dictating to the rest. Starve them into standing down.
You’re too dense to see how you aid and abet the enemy, Schlichter. Go back to school.
“If Texas wants a secure border, an end to unchecked borrowing and spending, and the restoration of a Constitutional Republican form of government, the only way that any of it is possible is for Texas to become a self-governing independent nation.”
https://tnm.me/news/political/d-c-speaker-fight-fueling-texit-support/
Hey, Kurt! Speaking of “flipping off” ….
Indeed. His writing style is acceptable but his conclusions are all deserving of your previously offered stink finger.
What are your reasons for the finger Stuck?
Or are you just being emotional?
Schlichter always thinks that real America or red states or “the heartland” will save his ass. He needs to get out of LA, out of California and realize the cancer has metastasized. Also, he’s a high talker.
He may be flooded out soon.
He should visit Texas, the land Californians altered. Steers and queers in Cowtown!
What an emotionally driven question!
Langley, your transparency is showing.
If there were actual federalism, Kurt, your first sentence wouldn’t need the modifier “nominally”.
But it does need the modifier to indicate “in name only” because your vaunted federalism is a lie.
States have license — I.e. permission- from the central government… until they don’t.
F*ing dolt.
Federalism is precisely what destroyed America.
There is no federalism.
Tell it to the FBI .
It was the original American coup.
The spineless gop is mostly responsible. When the reps of the state cede their authority to the feds do you really expect the feds to say , no no no, you keep that.
More important than finding the parties responsible is finding people willing to die to set things right again.
That’s the clear and present.
Define Federalism.
Because it’s all a scam. Both parties are not our friends, they don’t represent us. Both want power and are only interested in what benefits them personally.
The states need to take back their sovereignty and stop feeding the federal system of tyranny. If that doesn’t work then secede. The red states need to develop a plan that is one, is doable & follows the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have a foundation that once worked simply dust it off and follow it. We allowed a bunch of tyrants to change it to become the self serving governance it is today. The fly in the ointment is, it takes the people to back it and make it happen.
States took the ticket just like most normies and many others take the ticket every day. Jabs for jobs for a recent example. All those STEM sons working for the Military Industrial Complex and daughters working for Social Program or GloboCorp Marketing are two more longstanding ones.
Where do these Fedgov and stategove lines demarcate? I’m not busting chops. I left evil globocorp myself for it being evil and have yet to figure out how to replace even 25% of that income without just resorting to replicating their vampire model on my own. Now it’s just called “the market” or doing “business”, apparently.
FTX was not a fluke but the thesis at its apex. The State v. Fed is in a very similar dance.
Its baked in. Ronnies trickle-down was right in that regard. Go ahead and uninvite the fedgov to dinner but be prepared to eat kale until you grow your own pork and be able to tell the USDA to get f*cked because fedgov brings the porkbarrels. A lot of serious un-baking to be contemplated.
Everybody likes to hate fedgov but they seem to hate kale even more because that trade is regularly on offer. Unappealing trade-offs are always on offer, which is almost always mistaken for “no choice”. The sovereign man and the sovereign State have a lot in common.
Without sovereign men living that model to which they desire the State to serve, there will be no sovereign State divorced from fedgov.
I think we all will have to choose to either take the Federal Money (the FedCoin Credit Card in 2023) and the Mark of the Beast (a QR Code on our right hand or forehead ? ) or not; taking the FedCoin money and the Mark will be the easy way and probably save your life but the Bible (Rev 13) says it will cost you your eternal Soul in Hell, a Hell of a price, a Hell of a Trade Off, a Hell of a Bad Bargain. Gov Ron DeSantis is doing the right thing: he is pushing back like the Russians did that finally destroyed the USSR Communist Oligarchs in 1989 and restored some Russian Democracy and Freedoms.
Good point. But the indoctrination really starts at the mothers knee. Remember that book, ” Everything I knew, I learned in Kindergarten.