Courtesy of Gromit, I spent a fun few minutes reading through this (pdf).? It's a description of the dream world of Texas Republicans.? Sadly, that coincides with a description of a nightmare world for me.
You can guess most of its contents, I bet:? No abortions, no taxes, no Environmental Protection Agency,? hidden guns should be quite legal and so on.? But a few things are so weird that they are worth special attention.
Like this:
Supporting Motherhood ? We strongly support women who choose to devote their lives to their families and raising their children. We recognize their sacrifice and deplore the liberal assault on the family.
How, exactly, do the Texas Republicans support stay-at-home-mothers?? Do they get something from the party?? Like financial support?? What if they are poor mothers and can't afford to stay at home?
The point, of course, is that the Texas Republican Party does shit-all to support those women.? And note that motherhood is defined as applying to only those mothers who don't work for money.
Then there's that "liberal assault" on the family.?? As if liberals everywhere were demanding hidden carry provisions to hunt out traditional mothers or something similar.
That bit was just funny.? This one, about education, is frightening:
Early Childhood Development ? We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development and oppose mandatory pre-school and Kindergarten. We urge Congress to repeal government- sponsored programs that deal with early childhood development.
Knowledge-Based Education ? We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student?s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
The Texas Republican Party is anti-education.? The reference to those government-sponsored programs means that poor children should get no extra help.? The reference to opposing any critical thinking skills!? Because such skills would challenge the student's fixed beliefs and undermine parental authority!
I can't get over that.? If the student's fixed beliefs cannot take any challenging, then they are not that good, to begin with.
But more importantly, imagine a country that would do what the Texas Republican Party advocates.? There would be no inventions, no innovations, no change in anything.?? People would be sheep.
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