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What the Youngkin Win Means

 In the waning days of the election, as Terry McAuliffe slipped in the polls into the mid and low 40s and Glenn Youngkin rose into the mid-50s, Terry McAuliffe’s campaign message was: Virginia public school students are now 50% non-white while Virginia public school teachers are 80% white. And only electing Terry McAuliffe will fix this, the greatest problem in Virginia today.

There are a number of funny things about this desperate last minute messaging.

One wonders if Terry McAuliffe knows who these non-white Virginia students are. If you visit Virginia schools you will discover some schools with nary an African-American student. I’ve taught as a substitute in about two dozen public schools throughout Falls Church and Arlington County (adjacent to Fairfax and Loudoun Counties which are so much in the news now). At Hoffman-Boston Elementary, a school near the Pentagon that was historically an African American school before desegregation, I had a 3rd grade class with one student each from Chechnya, Saudia Arabia, the Dominican Republic, and China, and four from Mongolia. (There is a Mongolian immigrant community in south Arlington.) At Arlington Science Focus, a magnet school near the upscale Cherrydale neighborhood, the student body is majority non-white, with many Asian, north African, and middle Eastern students, often immigrants. In Falls Church schools I would sometimes look out over a recess playground and realize that the second biggest demographic group, after white kids, were Sikhs.

What race of teacher would best “represent” in those classes?

A second funny thing about McAullife’s desperate message is something rarely discussed: 50% of public school students are boys. What percentage of public school teachers are male? Why not a commitment to increase the number of males teaching in schools? What problems are caused by boys and girls only experiencing women as authority figures for 12 years?

A third, and perhaps the funniest thing about McAuliffe’s sudden concern is: who has been running things for the past few decades? Virginia has had only Democrats elected to any statewide offices since 2009. Several of the white Democrats running Virginia have been discovered to have worn black face and Klan robes, as a joke of course, in college, and the main black Democrat serving state wide in Virginia, Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax, has been credibly accused of sexual assault by two (African American) women. Terry McAuliffe has ALREADY been a governor of Virginia. Among all these racial hijinks, when did McAuliffe, or any other Virginia Democrat, propose say, student loans or grants at historically black colleges for students to get education degrees (and maybe for STEM students to take an education minor or get a Master’s in teaching math), loans or grants that would be forgiven if they spent some time teaching in Virginia public schools?

But the fourth, and most deadly serious thing about McAuliffe’s Hail Mary, is that the Democrats finally realized that the issue they are losing on is education. But what they are really losing on is the issue of children.

For the past 2 years Democrats have been imposing fascism on the country much more rapidly than they have ever been able to do in peace time before, because of Covid. They’ve closed churches and businesses and schools, forced people to wear a silly mask that does little to prevent transmission, have coordinated with big tech monopolies to censor news, have ordered people to give up their bodily autonomy not if they want to visit someone in a hospital or nursing home but if they want to keep their job or insurance. They have changed or overlooked voter integrity laws so that they can print, mail out, and then collect and fraudulently fill out ballots, especially in any swing district. After destroying the economy with lockdowns they hope to make Americans dependent on government for income so that they will always vote for the party of government (in case they can’t import enough foreigners to displace American citizens to ensure their hold on power).

Too many Americans just sat there and took this.

But then Democrats came for their children.

It’s almost as if those shadowy QAnon people the Democrats attacked as being the core of Trump’s supporters, people who were supposed to believe in a Satanic pedophile cabal controlling the government, had been right. Especially since the owner of Richard Epstein’s sex jet was a major McAuliffe donor.

Now it’s not the first time. Democrats have been having their way with interns for some time, but interns are usually at least young women in their early twenties. Instead, Democrats decided they would teach pre-teen children new lessons: that America is evil, that they should hate themselves or their classmates because of their race. They also let parents hear this, since they decided to make education virtual during Covid, as part of the hoax that Covid required shutting down schools as well as the market economy (even though kids don’t get or transmit Covid). As parents began to pay more attention, they discovered that besides “critical race theory” neo-Marxist agitprop kids were being exposed to pornographic and pedophilic images and literature. And then we learned that there were rapes in the schools, rapes being covered up by school boards, because punishing the rapist and discussing how the rapist gained access to young girls would endanger Democrat social engineering, in this case so called “transgender” policies.

In being exposed as parasites who profit off of failing public schools while having no concern for children, Democrat politicians exposed themselves as regressives not “progressives,” willing to return the America they wished to destroy to pre-modern times. Terry McAuliffe declared that parents have no right to control their children’s education. Because - parents do not own their children! Children belong to the state. The state will feed them whatever unappetizing and unwanted (and unconsumed) feed it wishes - says Michelle Obama. The state will jab your children with barely studied shots that may cause myocarditis - says Joe Biden. The state will raise your children - says Hillary Clinton, the wannabe ruler of the village. The state may not itself rape your daughter, as feudal lords did in the “right of the first night” (right du seigneur) they claimed to sample the virgin daughters of their serfs, but if their policies lead to rapes, well, that’s an acceptable cost. Like taxes.

McAuliffe’s original campaign theme was that Glenn Youngkin was Trump. (Since it came out that McAuliffe had invested the wealth he accumulated from pay for play grifting in the Carlyle Group, the hedge fund Youngkin helped manage, someone should check and see if McAuliffe also owned shares in Trump hotels.). This actually worked it seems for Gavin Newsom in his recall race in California, bit it didn’t work as well for McAuliffe. In a way it really should have.

Virginia is one of the most government dependent states in the U.S. ranking near the top of the list for employment in government and in government contracting firms. Part of this is because the Pentagon and the military bases in Norfolk, but even more is because of the overpaid federal bureaucrats, lawyers, consultants and contractors, who live off of the taxes of all Americans elsewhere, in Loudoun, Arlington and Fairfax Counties, and in Alexandria, which are among the 10 wealthiest counties in America. Democrat politicians, campaign managers and media spinners - Jen Psaki, Paul Begala, Chuck Todd, Eugene Robinson - often live in multi-million dollar homes in wealthy (and incidentally lily white) zip codes in these counties.

What Trump - and Youngkin - represent is a threat to this ruling class. This is an ancient historical pattern, that didn’t just begin with the American Revolution or the Magna Carta. European history (and there is no reason to believe this didn’t happen on other continents) is a history of taxpayers being treated like livestock by the government and ruling class, until the oppression becomes so extreme there is a revolution, like the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381. The ruling class and its deprivations - taxes, rapes, conscription - are beaten back for a century or so, until they incrementally add new regulations and taxes and must be beaten back again.

Trump was a threat to the ruling class coastal elites with his seemingly erratic statements about reducing the surveillance state (the “intelligence community”) or the military empire. And the empire - a good slice of which lives in northern Virginia - struck back.

Youngkin cannot affect these ruling class minions living off the federal deep state. But he does threaten their funders and allies in government sector unions with his talk of expanding charter schools and other forms of education choice.

The problem for the establishment Democrats is that in their pre-modern drive to return to a time when children were the property of the government and the ruling class, they have threatened the children of their own minions, the minions who have made northern Virginia first purple and now blue. The long Democrat excusing of rape and abuse of children, as long as the perp - Teddy Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Justin Fairfax - supports “abortion” or “transgender rights” may have done them in.

A slightly different version of this was published earlier this week at Bacon’s Rebellion.

Metro Shrugs

 Another typical DC morning: I walk to Rosslyn (the neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia just across the Key Bridge from Washington, D.C.), from my little, almost unknown, neighborhood of West End (a tiny sliver of hotels, co-ops, condos, and doctors, between Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and Foggy Bottom) for some McDonald’s coffee and then to wait for a bus up the hill of Wilson Boulevard to the next Arlington neighborhood, Courthouse.

A 20-something foreigner asks me how to get to the Pentagon (at 6 am?). I tell him it isn’t the bus I am waiting for, but he can ask the driver when it arrives, he should know which one.

The bus arrives and a homeless looking psychiatric case with a 5 ft long staff gets off, screaming at the bus driver and calling him "boy." They were both African American, so no one called the police to report a hate crime.

The crazy (?) old man then stares at me, now in my seat, and eventually at a fat sleeping guy, telling us we are his witnesses. I try not to engage, but wonder if I should do something to get him to go. There are 20 people on the bus, almost all “working class people of color” who are going to be late to their early shift jobs. They are being held hostage by this man who may well be de-institutionalized.

Finally he becomes articulate. Apparently back in DC on Pennsylvania Avenue Afro-Gandolf had asked the bus driver if the bus went up Wisconsin Avenue to the Russian Embassy (which is in D.C., not Virginia), and he'd heard "yes."

Now I felt for the crazy wizard, or would have if he weren't making us all late. I've had a few drivers drive past me when I'd been waiting forever. I once had one grasp his genitals through his pants suggestively and leer at me as I boarded (not the ride I was looking for.)

Finally senior psycho decided to fully get off the bus so it could leave, a nanosecond before a tall and athletic looking young Asian guy with a man bun (!) - who knew there were male models on a 6 am bus - came forward to push him out.

Things like this happen in the DC area fairly frequently. I remember once being in the Potomac Avenue metro on the outskirts of Capitol Hill, where a young and tripping man waiting on the platform screamed about how white people were devils and should be exterminated.

One year I was at the Bethesda NIH metro stop, waiting for a bus that terminated at Montgomery Mall, and another skinny short older African American man (it's DC so a high percentage of deinstitutionalized or of any other category are black) kept trying to talk to me (he had a lame joke he wanted to tell) and to a young attractive black woman. Finally the bus came. I stood back to let the woman (I'm southern originally) and the nut get on first.

The nut put his hand in a brown paper bag and said to the young woman as she boarded "If you won't talk to me maybe you will talk to my gun." She instantly put her hand in her purse and said, "Well you get your gun and I will get out my gun and we will see who is faster."

I was afraid the driver, who saw all of this, would pull away, leaving me with the nut and his (alleged) gun. But instead gunslinger backed down and went away and I boarded and got home. I felt a little ashamed, like I should have grabbed him.

On the bus the young woman sat by a friend and they started talking. It was obvious from their accents they were originally from an African country. It became clear she was offended that this man thought he could talk to her just because they were the same color, though likely of different “classes,” and levels of sanity.

Of course the Metro system is famously problem ridden. This month the system had to sideline 60% of its rolling stock, its newest trains, when one derailed under Arlington National Cemetery. For years it has been catching on fire, with passengers sometimes suffering smoke inhalation (one died of it). Passengers experience service interruptions, occasionally find human excrement on seats, are violently assaulted on platforms, and experience groping especially when trains or buses are crowded. A few months ago I heard a chorus of women behind me scream “That’s nasty!” only to look up in time to see a woman (who I actually knew) get off the bus just as a young man stuck his cell phone under her skirt and snapped a picture. He was very practiced. She never knew it had happened.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit System (WMATA) is one of 6 mass transit systems (along with Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia) that receive 17% of the Highway Trust Funds from the gas taxes paid by people in Houston, San Diego, Richmond, Baltimore and less urban areas in the rest of the country. (Taxpayers think these gas taxes are paying for their local streets or at least for interstate highways.) It’s part of our mainly coastal Panem Capitol, though WMATA is mainly for their servants and not for the actual ruling class.

But it’s also “public” or government property, which is often taken to mean anyone can use it for any purpose, with the only exceptions seeming to be parents who want to exercise control over public schools or Trump supporters who want to protest on Capitol Hill. But you can sleep, pee, poop, or scream in the bus or subway, for a good long while, before anyone does anything about it.

The result - litter, muggers, sexual assaults, rats. The things one finds in public streets and alleys, and for that matter we now know in “public” schools. And sometimes among “public” police. But which you don’t find as much at private spaces like shopping malls or parking garages.

It’s pretty clear what the solution is. Parents are beginning to homeschool, to re-enroll their children in private and parochial schools, and to demand charter schools. Citizens are going to have to take moves to decentralize and privatize all the other government properties. Streets, sidewalks, police forces, and other goods and services currently managed by government bureaucrats need to be turned over to voluntary institutions - downtown business districts, neighborhood associations, for profit companies and non-profit organizations - that are only funded if people want to support them and that are subject to open and free competition from alternatives.

It will take a while to get there since our ruling political class and their media spinners have never even heard of such a thing, though economists have discussed the benefits for decades. In almost any jurisdiction you choose, you can find local politicians in the pay of the current transportation industry corporations that win all the government contracts for our failing government monopoly services. But I hope we may be in a revolutionary moment where we could see a lot of this swept away.

A slightly different version of this piece was published earlier this week at SpliceToday.