I Can't Not Rant

I was watching (a good deal) of the Democrat debate and what I noticed -- was today and, in fact, is always -- at the heart of their arguments is that the boogeyman is out to get you, "big" "bad" people (read, the successful) are the cause of your unhappiness and if you want change, give me your money and your children and I'll take care of everything for you.

It leaves me wondering, if the drug companies (made up of people, of course, but portrayed as an incomprehensible monster by the leftists) then why has life expectancy gone for about forty years at the beginning of the last century, to nearly two-and-a-half times that for children born today?

It is stunning how the Democrats can never offer new (or mature) proposals. Their answer to everything is more money. Yet, since the leftist takeover of the public schools, funding for education has skyrocketed. Does the leftist NEVER think about the facts? Children educated in one-room school houses at the time of the Revolution were more likely to be literate than those graduating from today's universities.

These kids of yore did not have a computer at every desk -- they didn't even have a textbook at every desk. They didn't even have electric lights. Yet the leftists still argue that the way to make our schools better is to take more money from working people and give it to the leftist unions (who then kick it back to the Democrats).

The candidates gave the rote answer to education yet again when they said that they would pay teachers more money. Okay. But the Fact is that good teachers leave the teaching profession not because of money. How do we know? Because schools conduct exit interviews with these teachers and salary is way down on the list of reasons they no longer wish to continue in the profession they chose -- knowing all along that pay for teachers is not on par with, say, a movie or rock star.

Typically the number one answer for leaving their chosen profession is that they can no longer teach. The refusal of the leftists to allow the adults to control the schools -- the lack of support the teachers receive from the leftist administrators -- is the reason they leave.

But, alas, that's a fact -- and Democrats do not deal in facts. It MUST be money because, being wholly without personal values, the Democrat cannot understand that what is missing from the schools is the teaching of facts and accurate information. Instead they want to teach children how to have sex, instruct them in the use of condoms and, if that fails, drive them to the abortion clinics to cover their (the teachers') failures.

It is not a coincidence that one of the first things the leftists did upon their takeover of the public schools in the Sixties was to end courses in good behavior (we called them "civics" classes) and replace them with how-to courses in indiscriminate and promiscuous sex.

Still the leftists went back time and again to another of their rote answers, that it is up to PARENTS to guide their children -- and then ran off the usual litany of government controlled -- tax-payer funded -- programs in which the leftists would control every aspect of the child's life.

John "Blinky" Edwards argued for wrenching children from the arms of their parents at the age of four or even earlier to thrust them into the leftist collective while, in an earlier debate, Barack Hussein Obama argued that the teaching of sex to five-year-olds would be one of HIS priorities.

Meanwhile, to pay for these pro-leftist/anti-family programs, one of the more sober (at least since high school) of the leftist, Joe "the plagearist" Biden, called for surrendering to the Islamists in the form of destroying virtually every means of self-defense America has.

A weak America, more sex for young children, more socialist programs, attacks on the successful and those who have increased life-expectancy two-and-a-half fold is the Democrats' plan for America. The same-old, same-old from the days of "tune in, turn on, drop out," Jimmy Carter, George McGovern and John Kerry.