Journalist Glenn Greenwald picked up this exchange from Monday’s The Late ShowStephen Colbert. Wanda Sykes (comedian) was interviewed on the show. DobbsAnd Bruen. Greenwald said that the exchange revealed much about the bubble where these people lived.
The Democratic Party’s late-night program offers a two-minute glimpse into the liberal mind. Highly recommendedpic.twitter.com/EOXaEiRI5H
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 28, 2022
Sykes’s rank ignorance may be excused. Since decades, The Left has been inculcating nonsense like the 1619 Project and Howard Zinn to American history. Sykes and me are the same age, and Sykes was infected as soon as she attended public school. My Catholic school education was my only hope. I went to Catholic school until eighth grade. My education was infused with American history. I learned about the great and bad of America, as well as the extreme versions. That is something I will never forget.
Colbert on the other side has no reason to. Whether it be for money, power, or both, he delights in “treating” as the mouthpiece of Sauron. He most likely engineered the exchange in order to maximum brainwashing.
The bigger problem is that Americans often laugh or nod their heads in dismay. Because they don’t have the right tools, very few can critically understand what has been said.
In case you didn’t know, Sykes is a Black, gay woman, who has a daughter. To maximize the impact of the minority groups that are privileged, you must always milk them.
Then she says, “It’s no longer a democracy, right? It’s no longer majority rule.”
WRONG. They have never been democratic. America is, and has always been, a Constitutional republic. The Left is stifling and confusing this fact because they assume that democracy is the exact same thing as a republic. While we use democratic means to choose our representatives, it is our Constitution that guides these processes—not majority rule. California, with 39 million residents and Rhode Island’s 414 730 citizens each get two senators. This can be found in the Constitution. It is this same Constitution which the Supreme Court justices used for parsing these cases into pieces and making their decisions.
Sykes and Colbert then went on about how justices lied in confirmation hearings. They only meant justices that sided with the majority.
SYKES: “It’s like these judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings.”
COLBERT: “Especially Kavanaugh.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh. So exhausted. Colbert lithely glides by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan in his liar’s rant. Both women did not claim a disrespectful viewpoint during their confirmation hearings. Hellerguns rights, however strong dissents were issued on Bruen.
But do go off.
If you’re banging your plastic spoon on your highchair about Kav, ACB and Gorsuch allegedly lying about Roe precedent during confirmation hears but not criticizing Sotomayor and Kagan for doing the same on Heller precedent, you may be infected with partisan tribalism.
— M0ser (@TM0s41) June 29, 2022
SYKES: “It’s just a bunch of horsh*t, it really is.”
Sykes knows, because she and Colbert both shovel it every day.
Sadly, Americans eat it up like it’s a gourmet meal, not understanding how this continues to deepen their illiteracy and distances them from being fully engaged in how government shouldThey are responsible for ensuring that the equipment is in good working order and correcting any malfunction.
The Brookings Institution pointed out the yawning deficit in civic life and American’s lack of engagement with it:
Americans’ participation in civic life is essential to sustaining our democratic form of government. It is essential for a government made up of people, by people, and for people to last. A decline in civic engagement, which began several decades ago, is a growing concern for many.
It is possible to track these changes with changes in community engagement and educational engagement. LMSHero, a free online education resource, beautifully shows that Civics can both be learned and caught. When presented early in a child’s education, it increases engagement. It is not an accident that the Pledge of Allegiance was removed from classrooms. This has led to a lot of dumb people kneeling during national anthem.
Today, we see evidence of this in the limited civic knowledge of the American public, 1 in 4 of whom, according to a 2016 survey led by Annenberg Public Policy Center, are unable to name the three branches of government. It is not only knowledge about how the government works that is lacking—confidence in our leadership is also extremely low. According to the Pew Research Center, which tracks public trust in government, as of March 2019, only an unnerving 17 percent trust the government in Washington to do the right thing. We also see this lack of engagement in civic behaviors, with Americans’ reduced participation in community organizations and lackluster participation in elections, especially among young voters.
The Trump administration was hoping to combat CRT and this colossal ignorance on how our government works and the country’s founding with the 1776 Initiative. Bob Woodson was Black and spearheaded the initiative to fight the 1619 Project, which focuses on CRT.
1776 will promote a series of essays and educational resources that provide an “aspirational and inspirational alternative” to the Times’s narrative. “People are inspired to achieve when they’re given victories that are possible, not always showering them with injuries to be avoided,” Woodson said alongside partners at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The fatalistic narrative of the 1619 Project, which is already taught in “thousands of classrooms” across the country, according to the partnering Pulitzer Center, deprives African Americans of the agency to improve their lives, Woodson said.
Trump’s departure from the White House has meant that the 1776 Initiative is no longer the focus of the nation. However, just as school choice, such educational initiatives are most effective when localized and championed. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is using the 1776 method to transform education in Florida, is doing this.
“It’s crucial to ensure that we teach our students how to be responsible citizens,” DeSantis said during a news conference in June 2021 at a Fort Myers middle school. “They need to have a good working knowledge of American history, American government and the principles that underline our Constitution and Bill of Rights.”
According to the article, “Florida teachers” are having a problem with the 1776 Initiative’s coverage of slavery, and its focus on originalist thinking. No doubt “teachers” is code for teachers’ unions, who have more to lose than to gain from this. DeSantis, however, wants to correct the ship after the Biden administration’s extremes in CRT. This is now being codified national into all aspects of governance and life.
To counter any efforts by local and state governments to incorporate the 1776 Initiative into education, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced the “Civics Secures Democracy Act,” which is basically another payout to the Department of Education to keep selling the divisive claptrap and victimization resident in CRT. Of course, he’s getting assistance from the usual RINO suspects:
Three Republican Senators are supporting the ‘Civics Secures Democracy Act.’
The bill would spend $6.3 BillION to pay states across the country for a racist (CRT), Marxist or anti-American curriculum.
These people must stop:@JohnCornyn @BillCassidy @JimInhofe
— Jillian Anderson (@Jillie_Alexis) June 30, 2022
Both sides say they are interested in reviving civic engagement and integrating it back into society. However, their views on how to do this differ.
In last year’s California Recall gubernatorial debate, Assemblyman and current U.S. Congressional candidate Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) accurately encapsulated our local and national dilemma on civics:
“I think the important point of CRT is that it has exposed a vacuum in our public education system. We don’t truly teach Civics in our schools anymore, at least not like we used to. Civics wasn’t just an addition to your curriculum. It was the thread that unified all of your education. But we don’t teach education, we don’t think about education that way anymore. That’s why CRT came along and exploits the gap. If we no longer teach our kids to build their communities up, CRT will teach them how to tear their communities down.”
You now understand the reason Sykes and Colbert and those who listen to their lies are happy to continue to gloat in ignorance.
If it’s not building our neighborhoods, communities, and unifying the people of this nation, can it truly be called civics?
No, I don’t think so.
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