🤐 The Totalitarian Temptation

Those in power on the left want to stop information so that they are the only ones allowed to spread it. This is how nations become totalitarian and control the populace.

I have grown to expect it now, but I am still baffled that those on the left always accuse others of doing exactly what it is that they do themselves.

Robert Reich is a perfect example. He is a former Secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration and a frequent contributor to X (Twitter). Never has one government official been wrong on so many major issues.

🎭 The Hypocrisy of the “Holier Than Thou”

This ‘holier than thou’ extreme leftist despises conservatives with a passion and recently posted: “Memo to the media: Fact-checking MAGA lies isn’t “biased.” It’s your job.”

Yet, he routinely posts outright lies and misinformation with such abandon that his cries that others spread misinformation are worthy of a Babylon Bee headline. His latest tall tale is that school vouchers are too costly in Arizona and have caused a multi-million dollar shortfall.

He has always been against school vouchers, claiming they are for “rich people.” The man has a real problem with rich envy, but only when the rich people are conservatives.

Reich posted: “’School choice’ is one of those things that has an intentionally misleading name. It’s really just defunding public schools and funneling the money to for-profit schools that disproportionately benefit rich kids.” He then shared a piece from ProPublica backing up this easily debunked narrative.

👑 The Illusion of Authority

Very few people will challenge these lies because it takes time, and that’s exactly what people like Robert Reich depend on.

Human evolution is such that we have been trained to automatically accept what those “in authority” proclaim. That is the reason titles are bestowed on people; a title elevates them in the eyes of ordinary schleps. In the case of a former Secretary of Labor, he has a title, so he must be right.

But with the advent of AI and chatbots, regular guys like me can now research things in hours that would have taken days or weeks just a few decades ago.

• John Kerry lies about global warming while flying private.
• Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Tim Walz want to shut down free speech.
• Barack Obama tells the DNC that it is “wrong” for people to have a mistrust of government.

They want their titles to suffice. They don’t want you fact-checking them.

🧮 Doing the Math on School Choice

Let’s look at Robert Reich’s lies and fallacies regarding Arizona. Charter schools in Arizona are booming and have very long waiting lists.

Mr. Reich says charter schools “disproportionately benefit rich kids.” This is an outright lie. Now any kid can go to a charter school, and they do NOT have to pay any extra money to do so.

• The State allocates 90% of what it costs per student in public schools to the charter school.
• The charter schools accept that as payment in full.
• 90% is LESS than 100%.

That means the public schools should be saving 10%! But, not in the math of the left.

The expanded ESA program has seen a massive increase in enrollment, jumping from about 12,000 students to over 74,000 students. That is over 60,000 children getting an education instead of an “Indoct YOU nation.”

🏛️ Protecting the Hive

So why the outrage? Because the left knows this is a threat to government-run schools and the teacher’s unions who donate almost exclusively to Democrats.

“Control freaks like Robert Reich don’t want parents to have a choice, so they have to find a scapegoat, and the usual one is ‘rich kids.'”

They claim it costs the state more money. But wait, did the public schools lay off any teachers or administrators after losing 60,000 students? Did they close down any empty schools? Nope.

It is business as usual. Only a private capitalistic enterprise would have to balance the books. The government can do these things and get away with it because the public believes the “experts” with titles.

🔗 Join the Inquiry

The next time a politician with a fancy title tells you that giving parents a choice is “defunding” the system, look at the ledger.

Are they actually worried about the budget, or are they terrified of losing their monopoly on what your children learn? Stop accepting the narrative just because a former Secretary of Labor said it on Twitter.

Do the math for yourself.