It is a tragedy that parents cannot apply school tax vouchers to private learning institutions. This economic sword held over the heads of middle and lower class parents should never have been allowed to stand. I’m not as well-read as you but it is shameful that it hasn’t been challenged in the nation’s highest courts. Perhaps it has. The fate of the Union could very well rest on it.

So long as President Trump’s average approval rating does not rise above 45 percent, Limbaugh believes Biden will continue his strategy of largely avoiding the campaign trail and minimizing exposure to the media.

“If the number stays at 45 or lower, then Biden doesn’t have to come out,” Limbaugh said. “It means that they will look at it as Biden not being threatened. … Same thing with this mask business. This is Plugs’ attempt to remain unavailable. It’s just too dangerous, folks. It’s too dangerous for everybody to go out there. Everybody must wear the mask for three months because they can’t afford for Joe Biden to leave the basement.”
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In line with the basement strategy, liberals in the media are already making excuses for the candidate to drop out of the presidential debates. The debates are where even Biden’s supporters worry that the minority of likely voters who don’t think Biden has dementia will be forced to change their minds.

The Sowell quote I mentioned above is this:

“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.” ~ Thomas Sowell

Some of the details of how that danger came to be so pervasive:
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/stevenalansamson/2020/08/13/a-strategy-of-subversion-pt-1-the-long-march-through-institutions-n2574195

Half a century ago the German sociologist Helmut Schelsky succinctly dissected the political strategy of left-wing radicals in West Germany and the West generally. His essay, “The New Strategy of Revolution,” remains one of the best summaries of an ongoing strategy of cultural subversion.

Directed towards the “conquest of the system,” the revolutionary strategy depicted by Schelsky, which was inspired by the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci and implemented by Rudi Dutschke, is premised on destroying the most significant features of political democracy for imposing hegemony over the people. It bids to root out the fundamental political and social ideals and the corresponding patterns of life of the major groups within the system by discrediting the values, intellectual outlook, and institutional foundations of these groups, their ideals, and even the most ordinary interactions of their members. A useful comparison may be drawn with what Thomas Farr calls “China’s Second Cultural Revolution,” where Xi Jinping’s government controls the commanding heights and is endeavoring to introduce a utilitarian, soft-power “social credit” system to fine-tune its control.

This “long march through the institutions” implicitly acknowledges a reality of civil society that is much neglected today. Society in the West has historically been governed not by a single central authority. Rather it takes shape through a fluid symbiosis of multiple self-governing institutions, which include municipalities, churches, guilds, universities, and various voluntary associations.
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The strategic goal of the left-wing radicals as far as these institutions are concerned is simply “the seizure of power,” i.e., the occupation of the crucial positions of authority and determination of their policies by fellow-believers, followers and sympathizers. The partial autonomy vis-a-vis the state and the economy enjoyed by these institutions, on the basis of certain fundamental rights such as the freedom of research, teaching, expression and belief, all of which have been won through long struggles, is the point of entry through which power can be gained.
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Universities historically have commanded the highest authority and respect within Christendom, which makes them a natural target.

From the universities, to the teachers, to the children.

I agree that the youngsters are lost, male and female. On the other end of the age scale is the Woodstock generation. They are totally woke in a good way. Vietnam is fresh in their memory so they aren’t easily (mis)led by men in suits nor women in pantsuits. The cracks I see are among the 40-55 year olds. They were totally in the bag with the experts early on but now they are quite open about expressing their frustration. These are most-likely voters. A good sign that the tide is turning. On a positive note, I did run across a 20-year old conservative young lady. Very articulate and unafraid. She’s had enough. Good news, she’s good at socializing so perhaps she is having a positive impact on her generation. Bit by bit things are a-changing.

Brian Morgan: I’d love to agree, but I haven’t seen anything like that.

The young women seem pretty set upon their politics. However, the young men seem to have a vague disquiet that things are working out and SJW politics aren’t helping.

Well, except for one understandable (at the time) misjudgment.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination/

THOMAS SOWELL

In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one — Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after seven years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.

No doubt much of the stampede of Republican voters toward Mr. Trump is based on their disgust with the Republican establishment. It is easy to understand why there would be pent-up resentments among Republican voters. But are elections held for the purpose of venting emotions?

No national leader ever aroused more fervent emotions than Adolf Hitler did in the 1930s. Watch some old newsreels of German crowds delirious with joy at the sight of him. The only things at all comparable in more recent times were the ecstatic crowds that greeted Barack Obama when he burst upon the political scene in 2008.

Elections, however, have far more lasting and far more serious — or even grim — consequences than emotional venting. The actual track record of crowd pleasers, whether Juan Perón in Argentina, Obama in America, or Hitler in Germany, is very sobering, if not painfully depressing.

After the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran, we are entering an era when people alive at this moment may live to see a day when American cities are left in radioactive ruins. We need all the wisdom, courage, and dedication in the next president — and his or her successors — to save ourselves and our children from such a catastrophe.

A shoot-from-the-hip, belligerent show-off is the last thing we need or can afford.

— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

With all due respect to the great man, the first glib egomaniac is exactly why we had to elect the second: Obama proved that he could get the progressive (socialist) agenda done, and Trump promised conservatives he would do the same for them, when the GOP had serially failed to do so.
To a great extent, he has.

The young ones may eventually catch up but I believe that our best hope is women. I see cracks forming.

Sadly there is little to no fight in the young ones. They’ve been well-programmed I suspect by all of the helicopter parenting. No appreciation of freedom. I can’t say that all of them are that way but too many in my opinion.