Article by Stephen Kruiser in "PJMedia":
Hand Them Over
Bernie Sanders began his week by floating one of those ideas that leftists swoon over: free child care and pre-K for all.
The rest of us recoil in horror at the thought of turning our children over to the government indoctrination mill that early.
The
only reason Bernie Sanders is where he is right now is because public
education’s goal is to churn out obedient little lefties. It’s a mission
statement in elementary and high school, then it becomes a dark art
form colleges -- public or private. The Left has been so successful at
it that millions of Americans are willing to cede freedom to this raving
lunatic because they truly believe he is going to give them free stuff.
This is a subject I’ve been all over for years. In my book Don’t Let the Hippies Shower I humorously examined the radical takeover of the American education system.
Democrats
don’t really care about poor, put-upon working parents. They’re the
ones who are taxing people to death and making them work that much in
the first place, after all. The goal here is to get their grubby radical
hands on the minds of children when they are most easily molded. They
sell this horror by portraying the government as a benevolent caretaker
that’s there to comfort you:
What would free, quality child care and pre-K mean for you and your family?
It would mean that strangers were raising my child, you commie freak show. So yeah...no.
The
other selling point for the early Thought Police invasion is that
children purportedly thrive if you snatch them from the womb and toss
them over to a preschool teacher with an IQ of 90. This ignores the fact
that the generation that figured out how to put a man on the moon did
it all without the benefit of a pre-K “education.” Not everyone even
went to kindergarten back then.
So, no thank you, Senator Sanders, sane people don’t want your kind parenting our children under the guise of “help.”
Let parents be parents.
And let the government stay out of the way.