The Noisy Room has a post about a little known initiative that is almost passing under the radar screen, practically unknown and almost completely unremarked. It's not just some minor bill or amendment being pressed by some minor or backbencher Congressman. In fact, right now its not a bill at all, but it is a major initiative favored by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi meant to control how your children are raised. In order to do this, she wants to pass a Federal Child Care Law. She knows she could never pass something like that now, of course, but this is one of her major goals, one of which she speaks often and unapologetically as she campaigns relentlessly to help Democrats take back the House of Representatives.
The Noisy Room was kind enough to provide a link to a page that would demonstrate just what this kind of government run child care might look like, from the earliest days of the Soviet era. TNR also provides a helpful passage which might be especially pertinent. Following is a small portion-
Communist society considers the social education of the rising
generation to be one of the fundamental aspects of the new life. The old
family, narrow and petty, where the parents quarrel and are only
interested in their own offspring, is not capable of educating the “new
person”. The playgrounds, gardens, homes and other amenities where the
child will spend the greater part of the day under the supervision of
qualified educators will, on the other hand, offer an environment in
which the child can grow up a conscious communist who recognises the
need for solidarity, comradeship, mutual help and loyalty to the
collective. What responsibilities are left to the parents, when they no
longer have to take charge of upbringing and education? The very small
baby, you might answer, while it is still learning to walk and clinging
to its mother’s skirt, still needs her attention.
The scary thing about it is that these very kinds of people, whether or not strictly communist, have had a stranglehold on our nation's educational system for decades, and they aren't about to relinquish their steely cold grip. We see it tightening at an alarmingly accelerating rate even as the overall quality of our children's education has in general declined to such a corresponding degree it could not be an accident, even if it is not intentional.
It has only been lately that so many of our major political figures on the left have actively pursued such a goal so openly, directly, and unapologetically. Perhaps it speaks to an air of desperation on the part of Democrats. After all, this is not something widely advertised or disseminated to the general public, but is a selling point Nancy Pelosi uses in her fund raising efforts among hard core leftist donors. Help return Democrats back to power in the House of Representatives, help them keep control of the Senate, and re-elect Barak Obama to a second term as President, and I, Nancy Pelosi, once and future Speaker of the House of Representatives, will give you a National Child Care Law.
This should come as no surprise. It has been a goal of the left,
including liberal Democrats, for many decades, to establish complete
control of the nation's education system and to indoctrinate
schoolchildren to adhere to leftist dogma. This latest attempt by Pelosi
is just the latest strain of the virus, and the one which might prove
the most resistant to any political antibiotic should it ever be passed.
After all, it would be yet another entitlement, one that so many would
find attractive, and once it was established it would be extremely
difficult and problematic for any politician to speak against it or try
to repeal it. Or at least, that is Pelosi's hope, and if she is successful in regaining control of the House for the Democrats, she would feel she has the mandate and the same kind of power and influence she used to pass Obamacare.
She did it once, right? Don't think she would be shy about trying it a second time. Only this time, we don't really have to wait until the bill is passed before we know what's in it. Subsidized child care for the poor, at taxpayer expense, and maybe, just possibly, a mandate that you have to actually purchase child care from a qualified provider if you are at a certain income level or above.
Is there any question as to where all this could possibly lead? Vladimir Lenin would be so proud of his ideological twin sister.
