I don’t understand how her sex life is relevant. Aren’t there a lot of gays who believe it’s up to parents, not schools, to decide how and when to expose young children to sexual matters?
As to “book bans,” I live in Florida. When you say the state is imposing “book bans,” what are you referring to? Are you defining a “book ban“ as a system that does not give school librarians the final say on the books they keep in their libraries? Or are you referring to laws that prohibit the distribution books that advance certain ideas (the way the left seeks to ban books that criticize hormone therapy for children)?
In the past, I have subscribed to Robert Tracinski's work. I stopped doing so for a number of reasons but continued to receive free samples of his work. In one of those he put forward the concept that those of us interested in Ayn Rand's work should, to stop the 'threat' of Donald Trump, ally ourselves with the left. I find this suggestion to be at the very least shockingly evasive of the nature and purpose of the left which in my view is to establish a socialist police in America and around the world. I observe that to advance that cause, the left carries out two hallmarks of all of the vicious tyrannical movements of the 20th century. That is, before they gained 'life or death' power in their respective countries, the Nazis, the communists, the fascists, all did both. They virulently attacked freedom of speech and they mangled the law to both use it a s a weapon against their political opponents while giving their followers a free pass to commit any crime. In America now, we see the left attacking freedom of speech and prosecuting Donald Trump, while their own violent followers can loot, burn, destroy entire cities and law enforcement does nothing. For the record, I think Trump can be legitimately criticized in a number of ways, but to subject him to what are plainly 'two tier legal' 'lawfare' prosecutions is to me clearly the mark of vicious left wing 'wanna be' tyrants who, mostly unchallenged, especially by so called 'Republicans' and 'liberals', thirst for and use raw power against anyone who talks back. While I think those who ran Moms for Liberty clearly 'stumbled and fell', and perhaps their organization should take the fall with them, I really wonder why Mr. Tracinski is so harshly critical of a movement which seems to me to be legitimately pursuing improvement in education for children, while at the same time he is so forgiving of the left which in my view is desperately trying to enslave us and has made significant inroads in the schools, colleges, universities, in their attempt to do so.
I haven’t studied the Florida law, so my knowledge is limited to reading some commentary on it. What is your understanding of how it works? What mechanism does it use to usurp control from local school boards? Is there a state official or agency that is designated to make the final decision on what books can be in school libraries? Aside from that, don’t commentators on the left generally oppose letting local school boards make the final decision?
I don’t understand how her sex life is relevant. Aren’t there a lot of gays who believe it’s up to parents, not schools, to decide how and when to expose young children to sexual matters?
As to “book bans,” I live in Florida. When you say the state is imposing “book bans,” what are you referring to? Are you defining a “book ban“ as a system that does not give school librarians the final say on the books they keep in their libraries? Or are you referring to laws that prohibit the distribution books that advance certain ideas (the way the left seeks to ban books that criticize hormone therapy for children)?
In the past, I have subscribed to Robert Tracinski's work. I stopped doing so for a number of reasons but continued to receive free samples of his work. In one of those he put forward the concept that those of us interested in Ayn Rand's work should, to stop the 'threat' of Donald Trump, ally ourselves with the left. I find this suggestion to be at the very least shockingly evasive of the nature and purpose of the left which in my view is to establish a socialist police in America and around the world. I observe that to advance that cause, the left carries out two hallmarks of all of the vicious tyrannical movements of the 20th century. That is, before they gained 'life or death' power in their respective countries, the Nazis, the communists, the fascists, all did both. They virulently attacked freedom of speech and they mangled the law to both use it a s a weapon against their political opponents while giving their followers a free pass to commit any crime. In America now, we see the left attacking freedom of speech and prosecuting Donald Trump, while their own violent followers can loot, burn, destroy entire cities and law enforcement does nothing. For the record, I think Trump can be legitimately criticized in a number of ways, but to subject him to what are plainly 'two tier legal' 'lawfare' prosecutions is to me clearly the mark of vicious left wing 'wanna be' tyrants who, mostly unchallenged, especially by so called 'Republicans' and 'liberals', thirst for and use raw power against anyone who talks back. While I think those who ran Moms for Liberty clearly 'stumbled and fell', and perhaps their organization should take the fall with them, I really wonder why Mr. Tracinski is so harshly critical of a movement which seems to me to be legitimately pursuing improvement in education for children, while at the same time he is so forgiving of the left which in my view is desperately trying to enslave us and has made significant inroads in the schools, colleges, universities, in their attempt to do so.
I haven’t studied the Florida law, so my knowledge is limited to reading some commentary on it. What is your understanding of how it works? What mechanism does it use to usurp control from local school boards? Is there a state official or agency that is designated to make the final decision on what books can be in school libraries? Aside from that, don’t commentators on the left generally oppose letting local school boards make the final decision?