In a single speech on Monday, Gov.
Roy Cooper
(D-NC) exemplified two of his party’s worst attitudes: contempt for parents and disdain for representative democracy.
Cooper declared a “
state of emergency
,” fortunately a toothless one, for public education in his state. He did so to try to rally support against what is likely to be a successful move in the state legislature to implement expanded
school choice
. Cooper vetoed the bill, but the legislature seems poised to override the veto.
NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR ISSUES ‘STATE OF EMERGENCY’ OVER SCHOOL CHOICE LEGISLATION
In inanely overheated rhetoric, Cooper said that expanded choice would drop “an atomic bomb on public education.” What he is calling an A-bomb, though, is what
nearly 70%
of North Carolinian voters want — namely, the chance to decide where to send their children to school rather than have bureaucrats assign them to schools that other bureaucrats control and with which the children’s parents or guardians have no say.
By trying to stop the will of a supermajority of North Carolinian voters, Cooper shows himself disdainful of representative democracy itself. At least he is not claiming authority to stop it by executive order or by flagrantly ignoring court orders, which is a trend among Democratic officials nationwide. President Joe Biden is the worst culprit: forgiving student loans after admitting he had no authority to do so, mandating “diversity” and “equity” by
unaccountable executive fiat
, and
improperly
trying to halt sales of energy leases, among myriad other examples.
It’s not just Biden, though. Democratic officials are routinely vowing to
ignore
court decisions and orders (or urging others to do so) or refusing to implement
duly passed
legislative bills. These Democrats love to cite “democratic norms” but then are eager to violate constitutional-democratic law.
What’s worse from a human standpoint is the Democrats’ war against parents. In North Carolina, Cooper doesn’t want parents choosing where to send their children to school. Neither do Democrats across the country who regularly oppose school choice. In Virginia, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe started what has now become a stampede of Democrats saying, in various versions, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” In other words, “
Shut up
.”
In Washington, D.C., the Justice Department
investigates parents
speaking up about school policies as though they are domestic terrorists. In thousands of school districts across the country,
policy
insists that school employees not tell parents that the schools are referring to their children by new names, pronouns, and “genders.” Astonishingly,
the Biden administration claims
federal law requires this anti-parent secrecy.
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That’s just a sampling, in line with Hillary Clinton’s claim that “it takes a village to raise a child,” with President Joe Biden’s
remark last month
that “our nation’s children are all our children,” and with his press secretary’s insistence just last week that children “
belong to all of us
.” The destruction of the nuclear family, a family arrangement that, according to critical race theory, is a detestable
example of “whiteness,”
has long been a goal of the radical Left.
Parental love is the bedrock of all decent human society. A government that tries to supersede parents is a government utterly destructive of the public good.
