LINCOLN DIDN'T GET IT

The way to equality? Get rid of all private schools, ban all parents from helping their kids do homework or demanding extra study, and insist every parent become an alcoholic or drug addict

Abraham Lincoln defined the Civil War in his July 1861 address to Congress as follows:...."it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men----to lift artificial weights from all shoulders----to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all--to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life."

Who's writing your material Abe? Seinfeld? Abe, baby, get serious.. "Lift artificial weights from all shoulders?" Like how do public school kids compete against the millions of private school educated kids? Abe, sweetheart, the leading object is to give our own kids an edge. A leg up. Fuck everybody else.

".....And afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life?" What the hell was Abe smoking? Did Abe ever hear of the teachers unions? The school janitors getting a hundred grand per? The ACLU keeping gangsters in schools?

Abe thought the Civil War was fought for the reasons he stated. How far from these ideals have we strayed? And are those laudable goals a part of the actual human condition? In order to have Abe's goals obtain we'd have to get rid of all private schools, ban all parents from helping their kids do homework or demanding extra study, and insist every parent become an alcoholic or drug addict so that all kids start on the same foot.

Without taking back the schools from the teachers, ACLU, and the various "equality" hustlers the "unfettered start" is impossible. Right now kids in public schools are being taught how bad our country is, how awful white people are, and once in a while how to read. The children of the wealthy or upper middle class have the "unfettered start". The rest want entitlements and think they deserve them. Abe would get lots of jeers from the Democratic Left these days.