Matt Walsh: “The public school system should be totally abandoned”
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From the July 17, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Now, although there is nothing at all being said here, we can still learn something, or at least we can have what we already knew reinforced, which is that our schools are being run by the shallowest, most vapid people who've ever lived. I mean, we focus so much on the ideological and political bias and indoctrination in our schools, and for good reason. That is the most significant problem plaguing the education system. It is the thing, before anything else, that ensures that I will never send my kids to public school. But the second biggest problem, and not necessarily a very distant second, is the total intellectual bankruptcy of the people in charge. And that clip, in many ways, encapsulates the whole public school experience. It drags on, feels like it will never end, and by the end of it, you aren't sure what the point of it even was.
There's one other thing to notice in the speech. She says that, one of the reasons that they must win all the things, whatever the things are that must be won, she must they must win them all, is because it's what is necessary in order to preserve our democracy. Now you might say that's just another slogan that she randomly tossed into this buffet of vacuous platitudes. And for the most part, that's all it is. On the left, the word democracy has come to mean all the stuff we want. So to preserve our democracy, therefore, is to get all the stuff they want rather than the stuff they don't want. But if we were to look for any deeper meaning, which is perhaps a fool's errand, I think the deeper meaning would be this - the left supports democracy when and only when it results in left-wing policies and helps to fulfill left-wing goals. So it is not democracy itself that they're so fond of, but rather the kind of culture and country that democracy might create. And this is why they say, for instance, that a ballot measure that protects so-called quote unquote abortion rights is a win for democracy, but Trump being elected president is somehow an attack on democracy. They're both democracy, but one is the result they want and the other isn't. So democracy is a means to an end. And on the left, nothing has any value unless it is a means to an end.
What does this have to do with the schools? Well, it has everything to do with the schools. By indoctrinating the next generation of Americans, they can preserve democracy in the sense of ensuring the results they want. They can control the democracy by shaping the people who participate in it. That's what she means. It's the only thing she said in that speech that means anything. And it is the reason, above all other reasons, why the public school system should be totally abandoned. And it's also why the Teachers Union President Becky Pringle is today canceled.