Seems like using children as political props isn’t the way to go. A true medical pandemic has now been hijacked to play politics to the detriment of the children.
I have already said that my administration would be “teacher focused” – never mind that common sense would say that education should be “student focused” and that we are failing children across the country by continuing to waste more and more money on large school bureaucracy and less and less on teachers and students. “Teacher focused” gets me the teacher union support I need. No matter what, every word I say should get me votes. My administration isn’t concerned about results or actions we will take right now. It’s concerned about rhetoric that will sound good to voters.
My admin won’t likely be concerned about actions or results after I’m elected either. Or about the voters who came out to vote for me – but that’s a topic for another time.
So. We are back to politics. We value truth over facts. Our truth. Not the facts.
Facts would support getting children back to school. But we prefer the truth that fear is a giant motivator and the more we push fear and hide me in the basement, the better my campaign is. So, I’m for teachers ….but against school for kids. That’s what the focus group said would play the best.
But what would actually BE best? Well, depends on who you ask. Harvard Global Health Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health – they say students should be back in school in the fall with minor modifications. The great people at CNN, MSNBC, NY Times – they say “no way should we allow the precious children go back to the scary world especially since Trump says they should.”
What’s Trump good at? Getting people to push for exact opposite of what he wants. And for coming up with catchy nicknames or slogans. The one I heard yesterday was great:
Jobs not Mobs.
Obviously implying that he and the Republicans are for Jobs while me and the Democrats are for Mobs. Brilliant. I’ve honestly forgotten more about politics than Trump has learned, but gotta admit he’s good with the short and memorable nicknames and such.
I’m definitely not for opening up schools since Trump is for it. Obama did tease me once that I thought a school we visited was a petting zoo since I couldn’t keep my hands off the kids. But, really, kids’ hair is so smooth and buttery. Who could blame me? Not sure how I got the “Creepy Joe” nickname anyway.
Come on, man.