Whose Kids Are They, Anyway?

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the magenta-locked doyenne of race-history-revisionism, is apparently unable to process the rebuke her Left-mate Terry McAuliffe suffered in his quest for the Virginia governor's mansion. McAuliffe, some of you will recall, informed Virginia voters, and the rest of us while he was at it, that parents should not be involved in deciding their children's educational curriculum.

Hannah-Jones recently tweeted that "I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught."

Somewhere, Lenin is smiling. "Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever," and "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted," were foundational elements of a philosophy that, to put it bluntly, produced generations of misery, oppression, and mass murder.

No matter. These Best-and-Brightest will get it right, and they know it with dogmatic certainty.

Interestingly, and while it may simply be a result of the translation, Lenin twice said "give," rather than "take." Perhaps his vision was one of a voluntary coming-together of the proletariat for the greater glory of Mother Russia and all that.

His ideological descendants, today, don't look upon the masses with any such hope. Instead, their way is to take. Take Other People's Money to spend as they wish. Wield their power in order to take more power, via law and regulation where it can be wielded, else by the "soft coercion" of cultural totalitarianism.

Take control of the education system, one into which parents (apart from the well-off and the determined) are obligated to deliver their children, and lock those parents out of the process.

We are constantly being told that "democratic socialism" is different, that it is not the authoritarian system that's done so much harm, in so many places and iterations. If a child's education is conducted apart from his or her parents, though, what's the "democratic" angle? That parents voted for the politicians who appointed the bureaucrats who make the decisions? That's a step in the wrong direction, not the right one.

It is the reality of today's illiberal Leftist thinking, however. Theirs is the way of the autocrat, and the technocrat, and the bureaucrat. Individuals in their version of society are little more than humans in the Matrix, i.e. batteries. Batteries to put them in positions of power, to provide OPM, and to deliver children to the system for processing.