Reading is Really Super Swell

Well, it is unless you're a dishonest liberal Democrat activist trying to keep people in the dark so as to see your agenda either enacted or remain unchallenged. Via Mike Wendy at the Polisonic Blog, here is the first example: Texas state representative Mike Villareal (D-San Antonio) on the changes being implemented by the Texas State Board of Education to the social studies (ugh) and economics curricula of public schools:

"They have ignored historians and teachers, allowing ideological activists to push the culture war further into our classrooms," said Rep. Mike Villareal, a San Antonio Democrat. "They fail to understand that we don't want liberal textbooks or conservative textbooks. We want excellent textbooks, written by historians instead of activists."

Villareal's statement is fundamentally deceptive, for he is relying upon people not being aware that many, if not most academic historians are activists themselves, in belief if not always in action. Put the state's history curriculum in the hands of the kind of "historians" of which Villareal speaks and you will get a curriculum with a leftist slant, guaranteed. But Villareal and his ideological ilk are counting on the majority of the general public being unaware of this - and are using this lack of awareness to construct a dichotomy whereby the conservative board members, who are correcting decades of ideological imbalance in the curriculum, are portrayed as extremists ignoring the studious work of apolitical scholars.

So go over to Mike Wendy's blog and read the information at the links he has posted.  Villareal's dishonesty is made manifest.  Such rank fakery is the norm with liberals and Democrats these days, who love to portray themselves as intellectually superior to conservatives and Republicans while relying upon the naivete of youth and the ignorance of the slums to maintain political power.

As for the second example, consider the avalanche of dishonesty that has been spread about Arizona's recently enacted immigration law, which can be read here.   If you take the time to skim through it, you'll be well ahead of many ill-informed Obama administration officials who would prefer that American citizens die along the border due to the violence of illegal immigrants and drug cartels and have the President of Mexico - a joke of a country that is just half-a-step above Somalia on the banana meter - insult the United States of America on the floor of the House of Representatives.

To that end, here's some advice from Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona:



Don't expect such advice to be followed, though.  For the present administration, ignorance is bliss...and the path toward retaining their illegitimate authority.