The Political Hat

     One of the singluar aspects of collectivist ideology is that it puts the “common good” and the collective interest ahead of the interests of the individual, since only through the collective can a person truly have anything.*

     Over thirty years ago, Margaret Thatcher “hit the nail on the head” when it came to economic socialism—that they’d rather the poor be poorer provided the rich were less rich, that is, if the gap is smaller they don’t care if everyone is worse off. It is this sentiment that has animated the teachers’ unions’ in Nevada to take-away Opportunity Scholarships for primarily non-White minority children and force them into the child-abuse centers known as Nevada Public Education.

“In an unanimous vote, the Democratic majority on the Interim Finance Committee (IFC) refused to approve Governor Lombardo’s proposed $3.4 million to protect hundreds of Opportunity Scholarships for low-income students. Republican members of the committee unanimously approved the funding.

“During the lengthy hearing, numerous parents, students, and organization stressed the importance of the program, with Lombardo’s Chief of Staff Ben Kieckhefer noting: ‘Parents and families have made up their minds about school choice and they like it. I’m not gonna try to convince you to like it … What I’m here to ask is whether you’ll allow the families and the students to continue attending the schools that they’ve already chosen.’

“…

“During the 2015 legislative session, bill AB165 was passed providing a means for taxpayers to contribute funds to one-of-six approved Opportunity Scholarship organizations in lieu of paying all or part of their modified business tax. Although funded through tax credits, Opportunity Scholarships have been labeled by many Democrats as a ‘scam’ and a ‘voucher program’ that diverts taxpayer money from public schools.

“At the beginning of the 2023 Legislative Session, Governor Lombardo proposed increasing Opportunity Scholarship funding to $50 million through Assembly Bill 400, which Democrats referred to as a “non-starter” and gutted the bill to remove the scholarship funding increase”

     These scholarships were used for children who the public schools failed. But teachers and the Left do not care if individual children suffer, just as long as the collective is benefited… oh, not the collective student body, but the educational establishment decided benefits itself!

     They’ve even come right out and stated that their world view is the individual or the collective, with themselves clearly on the side of collectivist ideology.

Pay attention parents:

Union official @superdaly demands you sacrifice your children's future to prop up Nevada's failed education system. 👇 pic.twitter.com/5NW39p9sHs

— Victor Joecks (@VictorJoecks) August 10, 2023

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     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: Aktion T4 was apparently just ahead of it’s time

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     If you are on the Autism spectrum, the Dutch are offering to help kill you.

“Several Dutch citizens who had autism or other intellectual disabilities have died by physician-assisted suicide in recent years after doctors determined their afflictions were untreatable obstacles to a normal life, researchers found.

“Nearly 40 people who identified as autistic or intellectually disabled were legally euthanized in the Netherlands between 2012 and 2021, according to a Kingston University investigation of Dutch euthanasia cases.

“Five people younger than 30 who were killed at their own request cited autism as the sole or a major reason for their decision to end their lives, the UK study found.

“With those cases, experts have questioned whether the law allowing doctors to kill suicidal patients via lethal injections has strayed too far from its initial intentions when passed in 2002.”

     Spoiler: It has.

     So, body dysphoria is grounds to be killed?

“Jennifer Hesketh Aviles knew her daughter, Heather Thompson, wasn’t asking to finally visit Portland, or hike along the azure depths of Crater Lake. Heather wanted to go to Oregon for one reason: she wanted to die.

“Oregon had legalized physician-assisted suicide for patients with a terminal illness (also known as medical aid in dying, or Maid) in 1997, and Heather, who had suffered with an intractable chronic illness for over 30 years, knew her illness was going to kill her.

“‘Death is coming for me,’ Heather said. ‘It’s coming for me, Mom.’

“Doctors had prophesied Heather’s potential mortality for years. “If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll end up in hospice,” said one. They meant it as a warning, but Heather remained impervious to the words. I’m fine, Mom, she reassured Jennifer.

“Five years later, however, as her illness worsened, hospice sounded like a haven for her last days. But when the 48-year-old tried to find a hospice program in her native Tucson, she was rebuffed. Heather didn’t have a terminal illness, doctors said. Her condition was treatable. All she had to do was eat.

“To her mom, this was laughable. Anorexia and bulimia had consumed Heather’s life since she was 15. She hadn’t been at a healthy weight for 33 years now, and still couldn’t bear the thought of eating normal meals and not vomiting them up. To quiet the illness’s perpetual hissing voice, Heather began abusing alcohol, opiates and amphetamines just to get a few minutes of peace and quiet in her own head. Her temporary respite had become a crippling addiction. She spent years in institutions and group homes, bouncing from crisis to crisis. Nothing worked.”

     Of course Canada wants to kill the medically ill who soak up the limited supply of socialized healthcare funding.

“People suffering from mental illness will soon be included under the criteria for eligibility in an assisted death program in Canada, according to a report.

“Canada will allow people with mental illness to choose medically assisted death beginning next year, according to a report.

“…

“The provision will make Canada one of the most expansive countries in the world when it comes to medical assistance in dying, a Canadian panel’s report to parliament said”.

     TTFN.

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