It is now at a point that I cannot read all my email, let alone respond to all of them. But I have a group of people who when I see their name in the header, I make a point to at least read what they send me. Of these people is a group that sends me rumors, facts, and happenings behind the enemy lines at the Lakota school district. I learn all kinds of things from these “double agents” who show their Lakota employers politeness and cooperation to their faces, but are willing to cut out their heart through actions driven by pent-up frustration. One such email came to me from within the For Lakota campaign as the participants were promoting their pro levy zombie tactics to one another through a Facebook campaign.
I put a small caption of these Facebook diatribes upon these pages below for analysis, because it offers a fascinating glimpse into the thoughts and actions of the typical levy supporter. Most of the normal people who vote against school levies don’t get a chance to interact with these levy supporters because what they say disgusts us. But in the context of their social imposition, it is relevant to understand their mindset. With that in mind, read the exchange below with caution. The shallow perspective may be extremely insulting, yet it is the kind of dialogue that is going on within the confines of the typical levy supporter openly broadcast on their Facebook accounts.
Please take the time to vote!!! We can all make this happen!!! Our children deserve the best so let’s make sure that Lakota is able to give it to them….Register, Show Up and Vote YES for Issue 7-Lakota School Levy!!!!! Thanks Laura Macdonald Kennedy for the great Lorax quote!!!! — feelinghopeful with Jeanne Brauns and 84 others.
- Andrea Sack Sandy If you are “on the fence” just Vote Yes, do it for “that one teacher” whose extra time with your child, kind words or endearing smile changed your son or daughters life. Be responsible for the well-being of our children and our community. Do the Right Thing!!!! Vote Yes!!!!!
September 19 at 11:27pm via mobile · Like · 5
Leslie Reese Anzalone Love this Andrea!!
Yesterday at 7:32am via mobile · Like
So let’s study what is meant by the phrase, “Our children deserve the best so let’s make sure that Lakota is able to give it to them,” since this appears to be a common belief among the levy supporters. What is the determining qualification for why “their” children deserve the best? Why do they deserve the best, because they are the children of these particular women? What makes these mothers so special? Are these children royalty for some future kingdom—what makes them so prone to entitlement? And why does Lakota have to give them this attribute. Lakota in the context provided is all tax payers in the Lakota district. These mothers are supporting the open looting of financial assets from every tax payer to fulfill the Barbi dream house mentality that their children are automatically deserving of some special treatment just for being born.
The word “let’s” implies collective action, as though through thuggish democracy the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. The levy advocate above states clearly that even if voters are on the fence, they should just vote Yes for some greater purpose—defined by the levy supporter. They are encouraging thoughtless compliance to the mob rule of group assimilation. The purpose of this Facebook communication is not to address a single fact as to why taxes need to be increased at Lakota, but simply to advance the emotion of the argument with thoughtless compliance.
Always at the center of these rally cries are the “needs of the children” which are exploited, as if kids will be destroyed if such a tax increase is not passed. Yet the responsibility for raising children falls squarely on the shoulders of the parents. Most of these staunch advocates of tax increases come from voters who are deeply insecure about their parenting skills, and would rather pass that responsibility off onto a paid teacher who is professionally trained. This equates to the same mentality of the person who sends their car to the dealer to change their oil or replace the brakes. Since they lack the skills to make the repairs to their vehicles on their own, they would rather pay large fees to have someone else perform the task for them. The same trend translates over into their family lives; they would rather pay a specialist to do their parenting for them, because they lack the skills of parenting needed to raise children. They seek to cover up this deep insecurity with rally cries supporting teachers who they fully expect to do their parenting jobs for them while they run around like busy bodies gossiping about everyone who intersects their life, eating too much, shopping too much and are continually busy so they can always have an excuse for avoiding the scary task of parenting. The escapades of their life are a travesty of errors brought about by their need to avoid the insecurities of parenting. So they want Lakota teachers to do their job for them, and expect the “community” to pay for their children to be fixed, just like a mechanic fixes their cars. The notion is as stupid as those same tax advocates asking the community to pay for their oil change, when the rest of us tend to do it ourselves.
Most voters in the Lakota district already raised their kids, and they did it on their own. They didn’t leave the task of raising children to professional teachers. In previous generations, when education quality seemed to be higher, and still cost a lot less than it does today, teachers were only a part of the lives of children, they weren’t expected to actually be the parents the way modern levy supporters do. The guilt that many parents feel over their lack of skill in communicating with their children is covered up with their radical support of tax increases. In a warped way, the levy advocates believe that they can sin every day of the week, but on Sunday, they can say a prayer and get into heaven. In the case of their children’s educations, they believe they can be gossiping, materialistic, social menaces and all the sins of their lives will be erased if they campaign for higher taxes at their children’s school. They convince themselves and anyone who will listen that everything they do is “for the children” but it’s really for them—to cover the sins of their chosen lifestyle and the guilt they feel over it.
I know most these levy supporters will read this at some point in time over the next couple of months and I challenge any of them to dispute my claims in the comments below. I know what is in their hearts and I invite them to dispute it with me. But they can’t because what I have said here is true—it is the backbone of their neurosis—they seek redemption for the sins of their crumbling lives off the backs of their children and they hope that nobody notices. But anybody with any level of intelligences sees the situation clearly. Only the like-minded levy supporter is blind to the messages of mental depletion that is written upon their foreheads with invisible ink, yet the messages are there for those with special lighting who can see it plain as day. My special lighting comes from experience, and in dealing with these types of people for thirty years now. I have met and dealt with every personality type that gets involved with these school levy things, and I know how they think. The tax increase is not for their children, but to get them off the hook for being terrible parents either by choice, or by personal insecurities. The cry for better schools is the subtle demand that someone besides them raise their children for them. The crime is that those types of parents believe falsely that their children can be maintained like their cars—dropped off at the dealer to have their oil changed and brakes fixed—then returned to them all ready to run for a few thousand more miles. But kids don’t work like that—and no amount of tax money thrown into the black hole of public education can change that fact. Kids need love, and they need parents who are role models. And that can’t be purchased at a school, or supplied through tax increases.
Rich Hoffman
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