Letters to the editor June 13
Talking points
In an otherwise very strange election year, one local race just became much easier to think about. In the newly drawn House District 8, which encompasses areas of North Kalispell and Evergreen, Republican incumbent Rep. Tony Brockman was taken down by recent high school grad, and newly minted adult, 18-year-old Lukas Schubert.
Listening to interviews with young Schubert is instructive. He has the bright eyed confidence of someone who has no experience. His talking points read like a YouTube video prepared in a back room at Mar-a-Lago. For example, in a March interview, he gives his take on how our local friends in blue are performing: “Crime isn’t even considered by the police, they just let you do that.” Which is as ridiculous as it is offensive to the work of our law enforcement professionals. If it sounds like an inexperienced teenager ranting about things he doesn’t understand, that’s because it is.
If you think you’re a conservative, on any issue, like the middle-schooler he was only recently, Schubert will make a point of out-conservativing you. If you’ve heard your teenager at home go off about some crazy theory their girlfriend’s uncle came up with, you’ve heard Lukas Schubert talk about Montana’s future.
How did he win the primary? Party-generated talking points and a slick website gets you there, I guess. But be clear, he just learned to drive. He’s not ready to join the Legislature.
— Jay Cummings, Somers
State of public education
Lots of people wonder why there is not more support for our public schools. There exist numerous reasons, but I suggest it most likely is the result of permissive, anti-family, anti-male, anti-Christian and social policies which began over six decades ago.
These policies have contributed greatly to the disintegration of our family unit, which has resulted in our schools becoming more like welfare, child care and indoctrination centers than educational facilities.
Early on the feminist movement disparaged motherhood (and femininity) as an activity unbefitting of the new “liberated female.” It soon incorporated the malicious anti-male crusade which continues so strongly today. Add to that no-fault divorce and a welfare system to replace the father, active support of pornography, drugs, gambling, plus sex education, which has turned intimacy into a recreational activity, and it is no wonder our families are falling apart.
The teaching of relative morality and that there is no absolute truth (no absolute truth, no God) attacked Christianity at its very core, as did the scientifically impossible theory of evolution.
If that was not enough we have the indoctrination agenda pushing the ridiculous theory of climate change, the green agenda and the promotion of racist and sexist policies, not to mention a jilted view of the history of our country. Now topping that off with gender awareness classes, when large percentages of our kids are not proficient in the very basics? And you want my support? That is a hard sell.
Add to this mess the attitude that it is never an individual’s fault. It is the school’s fault, parents’ fault, society’s fault, or the fault of our own community. The answer to all our problems, in classical liberal thought, is just more money.
Want more support for our public education? Recognize the failed policies of the past. Get politics and social indoctrination out of our schools. Teach predominantly the core subjects. Emphasize the importance of the family and the home to our society. And return to supporting the principles emulated in the Bible as our forefathers did when they founded this great country of ours.
Until these changes are made, support of new school levies is going to be highly problematic. And, in my opinion, rightly so.
— Mark Agather, Kalispell