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Dismantaling the Department of Education: The Ohio House overrides DeWine’s veto on property taxes

Remember, I told you this was going to happen, and now it is.  However, with the July 14th ruling by the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision, the court granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause a federal judge’s order that required the Department of Education to reinstate nearly 1,400 employees fired as part of a reduction-in-force.  The majority ruling lifted the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Massachusetts, who had concluded that the administration’s actions aimed to dismantle the department without congressional approval and couldn’t be done.  A lot was happening with this ruling, which is why I am so proud of the tie clip I always wear that people comment on so much. I got it at the Supreme Court when I visited there in March, ahead of all these significant rulings.  Regional district judges were not going to be able to stop the Trump administration, and the mass layoffs that would dismantle the Department of Education were going to happen, sending the management of education back to the states, where, in Ohio, we know what that means with the incoming new governor, Vivek Ramaswamy.  Many education-oriented individuals point to a decision like this and argue that we are becoming a country not committed to education.  However, it’s the exact opposite; we need to get the administrative types out of the way so that positive reform in education can happen. This is why a Governor like Ramaswamy in Ohio is so important, as he has many fresh ideas that would improve education.  And getting the Department of Education types out of the way makes all that possible.  There is a lot to be happy about, but it’s hardly a surprise.  I’ve been warning about it for years, and as of 2025, everything is right on schedule. 

I would also add on July 21st 2025 in the state of Ohio the Ohio House voted 61-28 to override Governor DeWine’s vetos on property tax measures in the 2026-2027 budgets, specifically Item 66 which eliminates the authority for political subdivisions to levy replacement property tax levies and restricts school districts levying certain types of levies such as fixed-sum emergency, substitute emergency, and combined school district income tax and fixed-sum property tax levies.  That measure is now headed to the Senate, where I fully expect it to pass, and change the way the state sees property tax in general—another benefit of the upcoming Vivek Ramaswamy administration.  Property tax is no longer the crutch for big government that it has been.  Trump’s administration is headed in a similar direction, viewing property as something precious and not forcing owners to become perpetual renters of their property through excessive taxation.  DeWine was concerned about the budget submission, specifically how property taxes are used to fund schools.  What all this means is that public school districts are going to face numerous changes, including how they collect taxes to fund union-run public schools.  It’s not just the elimination of the centralized Department of Education that is coming to them, but also in how they collect funds from local property taxes to run their progressive endeavors.  What is happening here is that education is being redefined into a marketplace value as opposed to what it has been, which has been a kind of Brave New World socialist indoctrination center that seeks to produce more Democrats as voters.  Many people believe that the previous rules have been fueling our nation’s destruction.  And across many changes, that perception is headed in a different direction.

When the Department of Education was created in 1979, it proposed using the power of the central government to protect union employees from the scrutiny of judgment while teaching children the same socialist values.  Such as taking the category of History in school and changing it to “Social Studies.”  And during this period, kids were being taught not that the creation of America was a great thing, but that it was built on the backs of enslaved people, corrupting thousands of children in the process through central government oversight, taking away from the states the ability to compete with other states for a better education system.  Because essentially, everyone was being taught the same flawed information.  Now, the priorities for education will be decided at the state level.  School Choice will become much more common, as it was well represented in Trump’s recent Big Beautiful Bill, meaning that we are moving toward a society where tax money will follow the student, not the zip code.  And that’s why this veto override in Ohio was so important, because it initiates a process of shifting away from property taxes funding all this centralized government and its growing expansion, to the point where people can no longer afford to own their property.  The public schools have, for years, not had to manage their finances well, which the teachers’ unions have been delighted with.  However, it has driven the per-pupil cost of teaching children out of the realm of reality and is too high.  This makes it impossible for the state to determine how to fund education for students, as the costs are so high and dependent on property taxes to cover the state’s funding gaps.  To achieve a truly competitive cost structure, the Department of Education must relinquish its power and be decentralized. 

What that means for public schools like Lakota, which I discuss frequently because they are in the district where I live, is that they will have to rethink everything they do.  And they will have to compete with other schools in the immediate area for the right to teach a student.  This year, in 2025, they have some costly levy requests that add up to half a billion dollars for infrastructure, the building of new schools after tearing down some of the old ones.  And for what, for teaching jobs that are changing dramatically and are being pushed by A.I. for ability.  When states like Ohio apply funding to students, rather than to the zip code institution, the fat cow that government schools have been living on will be gone.  And they are going to have to earn their dollars, which they are not used to.  This union-dominated structure was always poised to fail.  You can see it when you visit the White House; all the big unions are in the buildings just outside the front gates.  Government unions view the collection of taxes from an ever-growing government as the foundation of their existence, which means low performance standards for all involved.  However, we don’t like what these government schools have been producing, and we have been intent on changing it for the better.  And that starts with mass firings at the Department of Education by the Trump administration.  And for all the government school administrators who are tempted to cry foul, I warned you, and you should have listened. They were mad that I said such things, and now they are going to find themselves extinct. And the fault for that will be theirs, because they were told what was going to happen and did not prepare for it.   Reforms to education are necessary because what we have had has been inadequate and expensive.  And at every level, from funding to curriculum, significant changes are coming.  And schools will have to adapt, or fail to exist at all. 

Rich Hoffman

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Dismantaling the Department of Education: Our current system values all the wrong things

It doesn’t matter what kind of technicality some opposition to the Trump executive order that dismantles the Department of Education hides behind; the reality is that education in the United States needs to change.  And no amount of foot-dragging will change the minds of people tired of a losing product.  When Trump issued his order to initiate the process of eliminating the Department of Education and returning policy to the states, he did something that no Republican had the courage to do since it was created in the first place.  Reagan was supposed to eliminate the DOE in early 1981 or 1982.  Then he was almost killed by an assassin’s bullet and was never quite the same.  And the George Bushes were part of the problem, and made things worse.  So, until Trump came along, nobody had the guts to undo what Jimmy Carter had started, a big government approach to a very intimate concept of education and how society approaches it.  Knowing what we do now, competition is the best and really only method of reform, and the way teacher unions have embedded themselves into the education profession, they have done to the minds of children what unions typically do to everything they touch, whether its steel, car manufacture, or even food production and movie making.  Unions only benefit the losers at the expense of the good, and that brings down the quality of the entire effort.  So, it’s no wonder America is not even in the top ten on most education charts, despite being the wealthiest country.  Public education was a noble concept, but the government’s funding of a subpar product has diminished its appeal and has not served our society well.  When you examine the literacy rate among graduating students, it’s clear that if we continue on our current path, our society will crumble into dust.  And we can’t have that.

And I don’t say what I do in a vacuum.  Even as I write this, people are urging me to run for the school board in my community, because the schools there have received a significant amount of funding, yet they are failing in detrimental ways.  And I know what needs to be done, but I don’t want to help facilitate a failed system. Joining a five-person school board that defends a system I am ready to scrap isn’t a good way to spend my time.  I think a society should have an education system, but I think Dewey was way off in the means of delivery.  I would be in favor of a highly competitive model that is more merit-based, similar to the one Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing in Ohio as a future governor.  Currently, school boards act like a moderator for government money allocation, and that entire system, in my thinking, needs to be scrapped.  And for context, I work with many people who hold PhDs and have multiple advanced degrees, and I do not see them offering a solution for the future.  In my opinion, academia has not been very effective and has never been in the history of the human race.  While specific knowledge is honorable, it often comes at the expense of general knowledge, which is far more useful.  I don’t see people with advanced degrees as any different from the geeks at Comic Con who gain particular knowledge about a topic and then build their lives around that specificity at the expense of logic.  No matter what it is, when people lose touch with reality and seek to prop themselves up in a social context with the merit of group acceptance, the results are never positive.  And doing that very thing is the goal of our current education system, so in its current form, I see no hope for it.

And Trump doesn’t have the answer either, nor does Vivek Ramaswamy, nor does Mike DeWine; people who are currently in the midst of redefining what public education means in America, and specifically in Ohio.  Achieving a high academic honor only benefits the system that created that honor. For instance, receiving an Academy Award for a movie used to be considered an outstanding achievement, but woke politics have undermined the entire enterprise.  Now, after years of witnessing Hollywood failure and Democrat political positions, the concept of an Academy Award means nothing to anybody.  And the same has happened in all fields, especially the sciences. I was on a phone call just a few days ago with the head of the EPA and a panel of experts who were trying to explain the rules of conduct for a future project.  And there were reasonable people involved until there was that one guy who wanted to make sure everyone knew how smart he was and how he had built his entire life around making rules and then explaining to people how to live their lives around those rules, rather than dealing with the grim reality that the world didn’t want to deal with his dumb rules.  I am not mad at the guy because he was essentially getting in the way of something I needed to do.  But because he was uselessly in the way of things that needed to be done, which he thought had value and merit, when in reality he was the kind of guy who likely had a mom who put a bicycle helmet on him one too many times.  And his wife and kids were probably miserable with his views about life.  They were built on a bad foundation that the rest of the world could have cared less for.  It’s the same kind of people who are always encountered at the patent office.  Or with a new scientific discovery, especially with this new news about what’s under the Giza plateau in the form of tunnels and a Hall of Records potentially at the feet of the Sphinx.  Academia has become a public validation for individuals who rise in these fields, as they protect their status through stonewalling and bureaucratic rules, believing their social standing is respected.  And they are terrified of that status ever changing because, as people, they are timid at the prospect of competition and have built their lives around that insulation, hoping that nobody ever discovers how worthless they are. 

The first thing that people think who build their lives around such a social enterprise is that Trump is acting in an anti-educational way, and they are agitated and even hostile to the idea of removing the Department of Education which sets social policy for the bench marks of education achievement in the far away land of Washington D.C.  And people who have spent their lives chasing those made up standards want that system to continue because they are personally terrified of competition.  As I’ve experienced with high-degree personalities, they are often shocked in a competitive discussion to discover that they are not the most intelligent people in the room.  They have a paper that shows that someone told them they were.  However, reality has other opinions, and those become apparent in a competitive environment.  Every child in America needs a unique set of educational goals to achieve, as the current benchmarks are mainly ineffective.  If our schools were producing students like Elon Musk, I would have a different opinion.  But what we get are kids who think going to a Tayler Swift concert is a great thing and they grow up to become terrors of the world dropping their kids off at child care while they pursue a life on a second marriage and run like bats out of hell to pay their next car payment and achieve a social status to other people who mean absolutely nothing as well.  I want to see an education system that inspires more people to achieve great things in the world at all levels of society.  Because what has been produced so far has not been very good, and it needs to change dramatically in the years to come.  There is nothing anyone in the world can do to make public education work under the current Department of Education priorities.  It can’t be saved, and the sooner everyone realizes that, the sooner we can have an intelligent discussion about what comes next.  But saving garbage is not it.

Rich Hoffman

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Why The Department of Education Had To Go: The hidden zombie army going after Elon Musk–the anti-George Soros

Yes, Trump did what I told everyone for years was going to happen, he has signed an executive order getting rid of the terrible Department of Education.  I’ll have a lot more to say on this issue but first we have to take a look at the kind of people who will be upset by it.  Essentially, what America needed were billionaires who would peel away from the destructive tendencies common to people who acquire that kind of wealth and power to become champions for self-government and represent people who didn’t have that kind of power—the anti-George Soros types.  The Soros family, and many like them, have been spending their vast sums of wealth on the destruction of the United States as a country in favor of a globalist idea, and the assumption was that they were going to get away with it.  So the MAGA movement formed out of the Tea Party’s response to all this background manipulation, putting Barack Obama in office with the power and force of George Soros and his many friends, which gave us President Trump and now Elon Musk.  Musk, the current richest man in the world, had been a champion of the political left, but I watched him over time grow into what he is today, which is one of the most prominent representatives of the MAGA movement because he’s a smart guy, and things started adding up for him.  And when billionaire defectors were stepping away from the Soros-backed globalist agenda, that was the only path to restoring a representative government.  Because going back to President Jackson’s fights with central banking, the freedoms guaranteed by the American Constitution could not be paid for in real dollar currency.  As I have been told many times, well-intentioned enterprises alone do not make success.  It’s always he who owns the gold who rules.  If you don’t have any gold, you don’t rule in the world; therefore, you can’t have freedom.  So, from the vantage point of a political movement, if you don’t have any gold, you don’t rule a world that does.  You can write fancy things down on a piece of paper, but unless those with gold are willing to finance freedom, your political movement isn’t going to go anywhere, allowing people like George Soros to rule always in the background.

Elon Musk’s interview with Sean Hannity at the White House in mid-March 2025 was interesting.  I had just returned from Washington D.C. and stood just a few feet from where Elon Musk gave that interview.  I enjoyed my trip to the White House with my wife.  I enjoyed seeing President Trump fill the Oval Office with portraits of many American presidents to give historical context as people visited him.  And hang the Declaration of Independence right next to his Resolute Desk.  Trump was enjoying himself in this stage of his life.  He had spent his life gaining gold so he could rule, as the game goes, and he was taking that power and genuinely giving it back to the people in an almost Christ-like way, completely sacrificing himself for the fulfillment of humanity’s destiny as a free and self-asserted people.  This is a truly remarkable statement in the context of history.  He has also inspired other billionaires, like Elon Musk, to join him.  But you could see the pain on Elon’s face during that interview.  And I call him Elon as if I know him because, in many ways, I do.  I have been watching him for many years and know a lot about him even though I haven’t personally met him.  There have been a lot of people we mutually know, and we have almost met many times.  But the closest I have come to that was my recent trip to the White House, where we were only a few hundred feet from each other.  But I could feel the momentum shift, even if it was painful for Musk.  He was making a tremendous difference in the world with DOGE, and he had the power to do it because he had won gold in the world and could then hand over the control for people to self-rule because of it. 

But in this process, we have uncovered the root cause of a lot of evil in the world.  The truly defective people tend to vote in favor of all the things that George Soros wants to do because he has used his power and money to do something they desperately want, and that is to live an unearned life of victimhood to provide a veil for globalism.  By taking advantage of mentally unstable people and spending money to make as many of them as possible, billionaire activists like Soros have created a mini army, which no state in the world could create because they have no sovereign connection to official power.  They are difficult to manage, but they can create flash mobs such as they did with the George Floyd incident, send ANTIFA thugs into the streets to develop destabilizing anarchy, and now vandalizing and harassing owners of Tesla cars to attempt to wreck the stock and bring great harm to Elon Musk because Musk had defected and used his power and wealth to empower America toward self-government.  The anger was purely over using DOGE to take money away from the victimization groups who depended on government waste to function.  In military terms, this would be like severing a railroad feeding an army along a campaign against a faraway land.  Losing the railroad would mean they couldn’t get their supplies to the front to feed the army, and the troops would then perish and be easy to conquer. 

I was down at the Lincoln Memorial as many of these government workers were upset about DOGE cutting the waste out of government and protesting the science of Elon Musk.  I saw them up close and noticed their common ambition: a lack of sanity.  These were broken people made more so by the life of easy government money that had corrupted their minds for, in some cases, decades.  Drawing them out of polite society to protest Elon Musk, the Trump administration, and DOGE in general only made them look worse because the usual cover stories were no longer there to hide their antics.  Stories that used racism to drive the narrative instead of the content of the character.  Or kids to hide teacher union radicalism in public schools, made even more urgent because President Trump signed an executive order eliminating The Department of Education, which had to happen.  These are methods that anti-American forces like the Soros family have used to destroy America in the background, to send money to these desperate people now protesting Musk, and turn them into an army of the desolate, almost like a zombie army.  But they had no cover story this time because they couldn’t get to Musk.  They couldn’t get to Trump because, under the rules of humanity, they had their gold and right to rule.  And they chose to give that power to the people of America, which Soros and the many other anti-American forces have been trying to destroy since the very beginning.  But they had lost their cover and were now exposed, and they hated Elon Musk for doing it to them.  But all Elon did was turn off the bad behavior’s funding and expose their unearned merit.   And when you see those people in person, it’s even worse than it looks on television.  And people like George Soros should be prosecuted for purposely making people like that function so poorly in the world.  For intentionally crippling them with easy money given so that they would be a menace of chaos to mass society and they would fight for radical communist causes rather than work to earn real money for themselves.   With the MAGA movement’s billionaires peeling away from the globalist agenda of George Soros and the gang of international thugs who have been ruling because they controlled all the gold–America, for the first time, has a chance to be truly free.  And because Elon Musk joined that movement, they hate him because it pulled away the veil and exposed the rot that was always there.  But now people see it for themselves.  Our education system was built to make these crippled protestors and champions for anti-American causes.  And to fix them, and free them, we had to destroy what made them the messes they are today.  Education must be sent to the states and made much more competitive because the products of public education have only served as the army of centralized finance and hostile agents in the world who have controlled vast sums of personal wealth and were willing to spend it on the destruction of our country.  That’s why the Department of Education had to go.

Rich Hoffman

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Teachers like Lakota’s David Ehrlich: The reason President Trump is getting rid of the Department of Education

I wouldn’t have known it unless a lot of people told me about it, but apparently, on Darbi Boddy’s Facebook page, there is some crazy teacher named David Ehrlich who thinks that I am some person named Lisa Winner and has been very mean to that person because they believe they are me.  Darbi and I have been catching up a bit. She’s still hard at work bringing awareness to the many problems of public education, but as a Lakota School Board member, she still stirs up a lot of controversy from the local government school lunatics, and this topic came up.  I told her that I haven’t been too concerned over public education issues because what I have been talking about for a couple of decades now is about to happen; Trump is about to eliminate the Department of Education and specifically send everything back to the states.  And that all public schools run by these radical left teacher unions were going to be in for a big surprise.  So I wasn’t doing much of anything on the education front until that happened.  And the teachers know something is brewing because they have been getting very aggressive as the bubbles that they live in are getting popped everywhere.  And indeed, this troubled David Ehrlich is one of the bad ones.  They always appear friendly at parent-teacher conferences, but few know what’s really going on with these people, which is common to my experience with them.  Years ago, David Ehrlich, as a Lakota teacher, was disciplined for having improper relationships with students.  And he’s still around wanting to teach kids, which is a very good example of everything that’s wrong with government schools.  They hire the wrong people to have way too much power over our children, and the system protects them from public judgment, which is why they hated Darbi Boddy so much because, as a school board member, she worked hard to expose these problems, not to cover them up.  They hated her for it, and the only means they had to change that condition was to intimidate and harass people in the reform movement so that they could continue to be diabolical menaces to our future children.  Reading David Ehrlich’s comments about me reminded me of something Pete Hegseth had said about public education, as he was on my mind because of his swearing-in to the Trump administration. 

I can assure everyone and all the intelligence agencies in the world that I can confirm it; I have never, under any condition, ever sent a message on Facebook, never under my account or some fake one.  And I would certainly never pretend to be someone like Lisa Winner.  If I say something to somebody, I tell them directly, and I ensure they always know it comes from me.  I don’t use Facebook; I hate it.  I only have a deactivated account that I recently reactivated for a gun competition group I’m in that seems to only know how to use Facebook as a group of older adults.  So, they sometimes want to send me pictures and emails through Facebook.  Other than that, I never interact with it because I hate Mark Zuckerberg and will not use the diabolical Facebook under any conditions.  I would not know anything going on with Darbi’s Facebook page because I never log in to view anything that people are saying there.   But I liked Ehrlich’s comments about me because they let me know that what I wanted to do was working.  Like everyone who knows me, I have a management philosophy that I like to apply to my enemies: dealing with them as a ghost.  I want them to think about me all the time as the first thing they think about when they wake up and the last thing they think about when they go to bed.  And I want them to dream about me in the form of nightmares, which is the case with this David Ehrlich teacher. 

If I dealt directly with all the people who hate me, I would have time for nothing else, so being a ghost is the best method of dealing with them.  Ghosts can fly through walls and travel up and down in a building through locked doors; there is nowhere a ghost can’t go.  They can be everywhere and anywhere simultaneously, so that is a general strategy for me, and it is my goal to have these people feel so strongly about me while I am doing many other things.  I am happy to have people like that Lakota teacher hate me with such insanity, so when the large group of people who support Darbi Boddy so tenaciously let me know about David Ehrlich and others like him, it made me smile.  But it also confirmed the heart of the problem, and many people who are now mainstreamers are catching up to it, like Pete Hegseth, a television host on Fox News and now Secretary of Defense of the United States under President Trump, the new mainstream.  As Pete said recently, I have said for years, get your kids out of those dangerous government schools because people like this David Ehrlich teacher run them.  He’s just one of many thousands, and most think similarly.  They are dangerous people who want access to your children, and if you love your kids, you’ll do what you have to do to get them away from that vast danger. 

Public education has been a terrible thing and has ruined the lives of so many people.  Like Pete said, if you can create an option for your children, do it.  Sell the boat.  Sell the summer home in Florida.  Do whatever you have to do to provide for your children an option.  But don’t send them to public schools to be victims to diabolical Marxists with radical leftist ideologies so they can hide their corrupt mindsets behind polite society.  Once you peel away the kind of people attracted to public education, you often get someone like this: David Ehrlich, who “failed to observe and maintain appropriate student-teacher boundaries and engaged in behavior in the classroom that caused students to become uncomfortable.”  And that’s what everyone admitted to with a signed confession.  It’s the same pattern in public education everywhere, from superintendents, administrators, and teachers at all levels.  The more they think like Karl Marx, the more they want to hide all their other problems behind the authority of a government school position, which they believe shields them from public scrutiny, and they live their lives with unearned merit. And that’s precisely why Trump is getting rid of the Department of Education, and school choice will be the new standard.  The money is going to go to the students, not the zip code, forcing schools to compete for enrollment instead of keeping parasites like David Ehrlich on the taxpayer-funded payroll to feed off innocent children hiding behind the system that protects their troubles to keep the tax money flowing to their corrupt labor unions.  And it all has to happen because the system itself produces people dangerous to children and does nothing to make them better as people for the world of tomorrow.  So, as the Trump administration does its business that we elected him to do, don’t feel sorry for people like this Lakota teacher.  They were never the kind of people who should be anywhere near children.  And they deserve what’s about to happen.

Rich Hoffman

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Things Will Never Be the Same: Public education taught us all the wrong values

It’s true; the game has changed forever, and I have been pointing out this for a long time.  The trajectory of social change didn’t just happen with one election, and as the political left attempts to cleave for power, and many RINO Republicans, there is a movement toward a universal law that has not been recognized so far in the human race.  It essentially goes back to the crucifixion of Christ and, what it meant to the human race and how many thousands of years leading up to it were inevitable.  It’s how human beings see themselves and have built class structures to protect the most timid among us from the harsh realities of existence.  However, the American experiment was the net result of this trajectory, and it has taken us another few years and some change to even get our minds around that reality.   It’s essentially what happened during the 2024 election and why entire government departments must be peeled away.  We also need to understand why we cannot have a Department of Education teaching global socialism when our entire education approach needs to change, starting with how John Dewey originally saw it.  We have learned all the wrong things socially and built our government systems around entirely the wrong premise.  And now, we have outgrown those assumptions, which will be exploited with this new space economy.  The human race will no longer be judged on the systems that seem essential on earth, the social structure around the campfire, or the city municipal building.  We are about to learn that all those previous assumptions were incorrect from the start and that the creation of the United States was a moral crusade built on many years of human failure.  And that America, as a concept of capitalist markets, was an answer that, perhaps for the first time in all human existence, is trying to do things correctly. 

Most of us had no choice, no matter where we came from, but our education systems were built on the wrong assumptions about what brought value to human endeavor and what that human input meant to the universe as a whole.  We have religions that have attempted to conceive the challenge, but the lessons of Jesus Christ cannot be ignored.  The long line of interpretation throughout the following 2000 years certainly fueled the need for creating an America, and those lessons ended up in our Constitution for lots of reasons that were meant to change the relationship of social order for the furtherance of universal existence and eternal quests for the nature of conscious thought.  We don’t exist to create power structures that are terrestrially based but to unleash the power of human creativity for the needs of multi-dimensional necessity that is directly connected to the intellect of human input across time and space for the ultimate price of Heavenly necessity.  We don’t exist to run for political office and get invited to fancy Christmas parties so other human beings can measure our worth by social popularity.  It’s to do much bigger things, and in many ways, the human need for its destiny culminated in what we saw with the 2024 election.  The results were always going to be the results.  Humanity would overcome its terrestrial limits for social order and escape into a new way of thinking.  We have all learned the same bad ideas from education systems that were unprepared for what we were supposed to be doing.  In our public education, we set the wrong priorities, so of course, it’s no surprise that we have grown up to believe all the wrong things.

As Bill Ayers has always said, our public education system was created to create a class structure that did not steer away from the mistakes we have always made in civilization.  That there would be an aristocratic order.  In high school, the cool kids who play on sports teams set the parameters for social order.  Then there is the middle class. In school, those are all the ordinary people who exist to support the impressions of an aristocracy and their net value.  To be among the popular kids, there must be many people who aren’t favored to give value to the merits of popularity.  Anybody can be famous as one person in a room by themselves.  To have value for popularity and aristocracy, there needs to be a vast middle class to prop up those at the top.  All social orders on planet Earth have followed this line of thought and have all been wrong.  Then of course we have the losers, the derelicts, the criminal scum bags of the lower class.  People who make the aristocracy feel good about their station in life in this kind of yin-yang existence.  To be good, we must have an element of bad to contrast the lives of those in charge.  When we set up public education in America, we did so to squeeze every person into one of these three categories and for them to remain in that situation for the rest of their lives.  The goal was to maintain a social order that everyone seemed to understand, not to challenge the human race’s creative output.  Going back to the killing of Jesus, whatever meaning religions might want to place on the event; the political issue was that the established order could not put up with a challenge to their static order.  The Essenes at the time, with whom Jesus and John the Baptist were associated, had a different way of viewing their relationship with eternity that did not involve the earthly social structure.  That is why John the Baptist was killed in the fierce fashion that he was, to satisfy the whims of the aristocracy that felt these young rebels threatened its power. 

We saw the same attempts to destroy President Trump for all the same reasons.  He threatened the social order and the structure we learned in public schools.   He was preaching a populism that wrecked the power structure of the Middle Class and empowered them to govern themselves as the Constitution promised.  Not to be ruled over by unelected bureaucrats.  This could not be tolerated by those who were protecting a power foundation they never had a right to have in the first place.  We could analyze a long list of persecutions, including the killing of Socrates, and they all have in common what President Trump just survived and was elected into office.  Instead of a crucifixion, which was attempted many times against Trump, which he survived under every condition, we had a man of exile returned to power through an election process and a Constitution that took away government power so as not to suppress human intellect for the first time in all human history.  That’s why Elon Musk, who had been thinking about governments on multiplanet endeavors, quickly supported Trump as president and found a new best friend.  Because he understands what happened, the human race cracked the code and would never be the same again.  Many are confused because they have learned all the wrong things about a life that has meaning in entirely different ways than they previously understood.  But when that assassin’s bullet missed Trump, the entire scope of the world changed for good.  And humanity started a journey to becoming a multiplanet culture.  And everything we have learned and done all this time was now on the chopping block.  And those who bet their entire lives on the value of aristocracy suddenly found themselves challenged to their very foundations.  And we were never going back ever again.

Rich Hoffman

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When I Tell You Something, Shut Up and Listen: Getting rid of The Department of Education

Of course, the crazy lunatics on the political left are upset, and locally, after this 2024 election, they are very angry with me.  And that’s fine.  If those derelicts are mad at me, I consider that a job well done and am very happy about it.  But don’t say I didn’t warn everyone.  I’ve been pointing to this 2024 election for a long time as something inevitable, and it happened just as I said it would, to nearly every detail.  There are people out there who get paid a lot of money who didn’t come close to my predictions, and I get it; there is a lot of anger out there.  But tough tootles.  Maybe from now on, when I tell everybody something, they’ll shut up and listen.  There is a general mental problem with people who support left-leaning causes, and that is a belief that they can alter reality by controlling the message.  And anything coming from me that deviated from a message they wanted to be communicated was forbidden so they could give themselves the illusion of changing that reality.  That’s how so many angry people arrived at this moment, and it’s their fault.  All the cheaters of the 2020 election did was put off the needs that were very well present throughout the 2010s.  It reminds me of how the radical labor union types behaved back in my No Lakota Levy days when I’d go on WLW radio to talk about how our yard signs were being stolen.  The crazy belief was that the tax increase would pass if people didn’t see the message.  And because I would talk about them stealing the signs, I was to be eliminated so they could control the message.  Well, that didn’t work out too well for them.  Fifteen years later, I advise a lot of people about a lot of things, and I do it for a lot of tricky topics.  And I do it for free because it’s not even my most valuable skill even though I am usually right about everything.  For me, it’s like helping a child open a gallon of milk, but they just aren’t quite strong enough to do it themselves.  And as it stands now, after that 2024 election, everyone would do well to listen carefully. 

After my experience with the Lakota school system, especially after the superintendent debates centered on school board member Darbi Boddy, I backed off the school board discussions.  I realized many years ago that Lakota was going nowhere, as with public education in general, as John Dewey proposed originally.  There was too much Marxism in it to survive in a country like the United States.  I’ve tried to play along all these years to be supportive, but I told important education officials back in 2010, before Trump became a politician, that the future of public education was School Choice.  That’s how Doc Thompson and I met on WLW radio and became fast friends. We were together with some big-name politicians at a School Choice conference, and things were pretty obvious.  Around that same time, Doc and I both worked on promoting the Atlas Shrugged films, and they had all kinds of ridiculous labor problems where the same anger that always followed me around was draped all over those movies, which was so bad that none of the actors came back for all three movies because the blacklisting was so intense.  But by the time they got to Atlas Shrugged 3, and they covered the schooling of the children in the Atlantis colony hidden in the Colorado mountains, I understood the anger quite clearly and knew that the political left was just going to have to be drug into reality one way or another.  I warned them there was no way to preserve their public education model, and they could choose to listen or be destroyed.  But they were not going to control the message. 

I’ve had countless people beg me to be a school board member for Lakota schools or to do some other political job, and I have stayed out of that business because I knew fighting them from that direction was useless because a day of reckoning was always coming on the horizon.  And that time came with the re-election of President Trump back to the White House after trying to stall the effort in 2020 with a stolen election and an attempt to destroy him utterly.  Thankfully, he had the guts and the brand to endure everything they threw at him, and he emerged victorious on election night in 2024 in ways that seemed to surprise many people, including supporters.  But I wasn’t surprised one bit.  And here’s what’s coming next: the Department of Education that started in 1979 is going to be eliminated by President Trump.  He would have done it during his first term, but it would be controversial, so he would wait until his second term.  Well, this is his second term, and he will do it early, so the smoke will clear by 2028.  But it will happen, and nobody can do anything about it.  That was ultimately the solution to the education problem in America, by getting rid of the kind of worthless losers who were causing all of the issues through institutionalism.  The Department of Education never should have centralized education policies lecturing the states through federal funding to drive a ridiculous teacher’s union wage rate and grotesquely liberal education topics to brainwash our children into the next generation of Democrats. 

It was all the people advocating hate now who have been lying to themselves as if the future where they had to pay for all their misdeeds over the years would never come.  It has arrived.  And regarding education, School Choice will replace The Department of Education; money will follow the student, not the zip code.  Schools like Lakota will have to operate cheaper and competitively with their neighboring school districts because parents will have the choice of where best to send their child.  And the labor unions are going to lose control of the liberalized education process, which they should never have had in the first place for a glamorized babysitting service that isn’t worth the vast amounts of money we spend on it only to get a bunch of purple-haired losers who would vote for Kamala Harris so they could have a right to an abortion, do drugs, and work from home yielding to some virus made in a Wuhan lab by global terrorists to control the global economy and to obey without question what the white coated losers of the administrative state said to do.  Nobody on this topic probably values education more than I do.  But what we have been doing since Dewey came up with it and using the government to fund it has been a disaster in every way it could be.  And it’s time for it to end.  I told everyone this day was coming, and they didn’t listen.  Maybe you’ll shut up and listen for your own good the next time I tell you something.  As to the people who have worked against me all these years and smeared my name so often, all it has done is motivate me to destroy them.  I enjoy fighting, and I love to have someone always to fight.  I would be bored if I didn’t have enemies in the world.  So, I am not warning some of these people for their own good.  I want to see them crying in pain because I hate them.  If Jesus wants to turn the other cheek, have at it.  I don’t.  And I will enjoy all the face-melting that will go on in these next few years.  But never say I didn’t try to warn everyone.  They chose not to listen, hoping the day would never come.  But it has. It’s here.  And there is nothing any of them can do about it.  They showed themselves for what they always were, and now they must pay for it.

Rich Hoffman

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Public Schools Need to Be Destroyed: They are communist concepts run by people like Jill Biden, and we need to get rid of them

Now that things are shaping up into reality for many Democrats, especially Jill Biden, the reality that President Trump will be returning to the White House is taking hold.  And Dr. Jill is worried that Trump will end public education as we know it.  Now, there is probably nobody on earth who loves education as much as I do.  I am perpetually learning; I read an average of three weekly books on various subjects because I love to learn.  Most people I know have advanced degrees and many times have multiple degrees.  They are primarily wealthy, too.  And a lot of them speak three or more languages.  I am not a fan of slack-jawed losers and dope-smoking hippies or people too lazy to get out of bed early each day and get the most out of a day.  But as I have said for many decades now, public education is a disaster.  Government-made education is a horrendous detriment that was ill-conceived in the beginning and has turned out to be a disaster for our society.  The teacher unions have destroyed the concept and ruined many children along the way, and the future of education cannot be public education.  It needs to be destroyed for the impediments it has imposed itself to our nation and lives.  Like a lot of things that progressives (communists trying to mask themselves in a free culture like America), their concepts of a centrally planned society vacant of individual achievement were wrong from the start.  And every generation that continues with this mess will be further destroyed intellectually, so time is of the essence.  When President Trump is restored to the White House, he needs to do what Ronald Reagan never had the guts to do, and that is to end the Department of Education, decentralize how education is performed with kids, and make sure that any tax money that goes into education goes to the child, and not a zip code brick and mortar school system.

I have been warning my local school system that the financial model for public education was going to have to change.  And why wouldn’t it?  What is good about public education?  When I was growing up, adults told me that what would matter to me were the friends I made, the school jackets, the class rings, and the sense of belonging that you get from the public school experience.  It would be about class reunions, the memories of learning things, and the friends you made along the way.  In reality, none of that matters.  In adult life, people revert their attention to their families and quickly forget about the people they went to school with.  Those high school years are of very little significance and certainly not worth the damage they do to a person trying to make them into social creatures.  That is not the natural state of a human being but a desired attribute of a centralized, planned society.  So, we have built this entire social system to implement the communism that was becoming fashionable in the late 1800s. The check is coming due to its monstrous failure on all human beings worldwide.  Public education has been a mess from Dewey’s beginning, and there are no prospects of that changing any time soon.  Under the labor unions that run these schools, it is communist ideology that they function from and teach to the students, which then ruins them for life.  And in most cases, that includes the people reading this right now.  Few people escape the damage done to them by public education because its foundation from the beginning was rotten. 

Of course, when we talk about communism, we are not being inflammatory; we are just using the correct words.  Marx and Engles’s ideas about communism were migrating around Europe through Masonic memberships, and they were being exported as dangerous ideas directly into churches, labor unions, and society memberships as Marxism, socialism, and progressivism to percolate around most thinking at the turn of the twentieth century.  Most people are so accustomed to these concepts that they don’t know anything else at this point.  So these are assumed traits, but they were never American.  Communism was the European fad, and it was exported worldwide.  As it moved as a philosophy into Russia and then down into China, they were calling it Democrat politics in America to soft sell it as something that could Trojan Horse it into our culture, which was taught in public education as its core foundation.  To prevent any competition of thought, the labor unions set the agenda, which was the net objective of communism.  So, at their core, what they were teaching children and society at large was outlined in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, and we are witnessing the danger across the world to this very day.  Luckily, there are some competitive alternatives in America, such as homeschooling and private schools.  And in the case of mass media culture, competing ideas can undo or overshadow the bad things learned in public education.  We are free to read, watch, and consume many other ideas, which is why our culture hasn’t failed.  However, the centralized model of public education has been a complete disaster with very little redeeming value to it.

Granted, when we designed a public education system, one of the reasonable goals was for people to learn the basics.   A person living in a very remote area such as the mountains of Colorado would learn to read, write, and gain basic social skills that would allow them to interact with someone from New York City with a standardized understanding of the world.  So public education isn’t all bad if looked at from that point of view.  But if that is the goal, there are other ways to get there.  To say that education is essential is an understatement.  However, public education, run by the same government that can do very little else right, is socially destructive and a menace to the furtherance of human civilization.   If communism is the foundation of all public education, then it’s rotten and needs to be tossed out.  Only free market ideas pushing each other to be better should be acceptable, and we must be bold enough to admit that.  I would say that education is the cornerstone of any advanced culture.  However, a centralized education cannot be driven and set by the government.  It needs free market applications that are much less prison-like and more designed to unlock the intellect of curious creatures before they lose their ability to grow at their critical age junctures.  Unfortunately, Most people don’t develop much beyond the age of 15, so a person’s intellect can be destroyed forever by whatever they have learned before that age.  So, with that in mind, we must make significant adjustments to our nation’s education policy.  For those reforms to occur, we have to admit to the massive disaster that public education has been causing for generations of people and stop destroying more generations.  We need to be bold and decentralize it completely.  Only then can we hope to see any improvements in our social intellect.

Rich Hoffman

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Socialism is Taught in our Public Schools–so why are we surprised that its all kids know?

There was a recent poll that indicated 43% of people in North America support socialism which seems to be a surprise to many people. As everyone knows, I have been screaming this from the roof tops for many, many years—more like decades. This isn’t a new idea and if you take that poll and lay it over the same type of people who voted for Hillary Clinton and may support Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders they almost match perfectly. The new element is in accepting that the Democrat Party essentially is a part of socialists who have simply changed their name. And that evidence is quite clear in how that part of politics has taken over our public education system, which was finely exhibited in the New York City public school system with their recent ban of words that are consistent with above the line behavior, words like success, exceptionalism, and winning.

Many people don’t want to get involved in political matters, as our culture has successfully stigmatized it. It is far safer to talk about grilling hot dogs and talking about the statistics of hitting a ball with a baseball bat. And the people who want power like it that way. While we have been off appeasing everyone’s temperaments and worrying about hurting their feelings with aggressive words, they have taken over our public education system and sought to destroy the minds of our young people from their very foundations, and they have not been shy about it. We’ve let them get away with it by playing nice. And they have taken advantage of our niceness and set about ruining our nation from the inside out by controlling not only our education system, but what people learn, and this has occurred by allowing labor unions who are typically very progressive to run the school boards.

All that has changed is that Bernie Sanders and other very progressive elected officials have moved the political bar even further to the left leaving people like me, who have always been conservative looking in comparison to be some deranged lunatic by the measure of the political spectrum being analyzed. If prior to the 1960s the politics of the middle ground was exactly where a person like me is today, the victory of the communists, the hippies, and the leaning left Democrats ever more moved way away from the center and set a new benchmark that stated the new centralist views were radically to the left of what it used to be. And this has largely happened by a communist plan that started with the beginning of the Department of Education in 1980. It can be argued that public education worked better before a new department at the federal level got involved, and since it has, the entire country has moved further to the left.

I still remember what public school was like in 1980. I was in the sixth grade and I watched it quickly deteriorate. I can at least report a reference point to what it was like before and what it was like after, and each year thereafter from then until now has moved further and further to the political left. For those who say they don’t want to get involved in politics, because of hostile elements that have attacked our way of life, particularly in public education, none of us really have a choice. I have lost a lot of friends and family members over this very issue, which I’d do happily again. To me, what’s the point of talking about grilling out in the back yard, when entire parts of our population are being destroyed by liberalism in our public schools?

To my point of view this is one of the worst issues to confront us in the modern era. That we have allowed academia to be infested by liberalism only to eat up all the value of an education with political activism has been a major travesty on the action of learning. We have allowed intelligence to be stigmatized also with liberalism, and if we aren’t liberals, then we can’t claim to be academics. Through our American niceness, and through our Christian roots we turned the other cheek time and time again to allow these antagonizers to climb into the minds of our children and to take them from us, to attempt to destroy our families, to stand for death and the rights of some feminist version of womanhood as the only way.

Another recent poll that came out revealed that happily married women tended to be Republican in nature, which set off a torrent of anger from the political left. The threat to them was always in controlling the message of what being a woman really was. In their minds they accomplished two things, they keep mothers busy at work doing “things” in the pursuit of being equal to men. The other thing was that it pushed kids out of the house and into schools and pre-school day cares. This is also something I watched firsthand. My mom was a traditional housewife, one of the last of them. And she took a lot of grief for it being ridiculed by virtually everyone and it harmed her in many ways very deeply. She just wanted to care for her children and ironically, we all grew up very emotionally stable and productive. My wife actually followed in her path and for her the situation was even worse. Far worse actually. I watched all this with great curiosity, how could something so good, like loving kids, be considered socially so bad? Well, we were told in public education that liberalism was the way to go and they took our tax money to fund one sided political debate. And if you had a different point of view, then those individuals would be hunted down like the Salem Witch Trials and executed either literally or metaphorically. Whatever methods were used, the results were always clear. Destroy any hint at conservatism so that liberalism could grow.

It is actually surprising that more people don’t call themselves socialists these days with all the effort at attacking American that culture has gone into the promotion of that point of view. Capitalism and conservatism have held up remarkably well considering the efforts spent against it. But its time for us to turn the tide and to not be ashamed to admit what we value and to continue allowing liberalism to advance with our shut mouths and funding by turning our cheeks again and again until they’ve slapped away all the skin. Values can’t just be surrendered to a mob of trained socialists who believe they have a right to pluck us all dry to satisfy their whims. We need to focus on competition for the public education system so one brand of socialist instruction is not the only thing available to young people. By allowing that single source of failure to infect our children we are actually dooming them for life, and its time we stop that cycle. 1980 wasn’t that long ago and people have been educating themselves for many years. Well before the Department of Education came along with an agenda toward socialism. And until we change our thoughts on this, we will continue to see an erosion that eventually won’t be correctable. Time is certainly running out—I don’t think we are there yet, but we are getting close.

Rich Hoffman

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