Apr 2, 2020

Article #2 in a Series Focused on Issues Pertinent to the MPS Comprehensive District Design >>>>> Similarity in Likely Outcome of the November 2020 Presidential and School Board Elections


The moral corruption of the United States citizenry will be evident in the likely outcomes of the November 2020 presidential and Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Board of Education elections.

 

At the national level, the composition of the Senate and House of Representatives is likely to remain essentially the same, with Republicans holding the former and Democrats the latter---  and with Donald Trump having a very good chance of being reelected.

 

If Trump is not reelected, the fallout from federal government handling of the COVID-19 pandemic will weigh heavily in defeat of this abhorrent specimen of humanity.  Despite his criminal behavior in office, Trump appeared, and still appears, to have at least a 50 percent chance of reelection and may still have such odds.

 

Perpend:

 

Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic nominee for the presidency, can count on at most only twenty-two states to give their votes to him in the Electoral College.  Those states, categorized as to surety of going for the Democrat, are as follows:

 

Near Certainty

 

California

New York

Washington

Oregon

Vermont

New Hampshire

Connecticut

Rhode Island

Massachusetts

Hawaii

 

Very Likely

 

Maine

Minnesota

Colorado

 

Critical But Far from Certain

 

Pennsylvania

Michigan

Wisconsin

Florida

Virginia

 

If God is in a Particulary Good Mood

 

North Carolina

Ohio

Montana

Iowa

 

Biden is not likely to claim all twenty-two of those states.  My prediction is that he will most likely win the thirteen in the “Near Certainty” and “Very Likely” categories and two of the others for a total of fifteen;  the outcomes in the other seven states will determine the election, with results in Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin particularly important.

 

This means that the best case scenario for the defeat of Donald Trump would mean that he would still win a 28-state majority in the electoral college---  losing, if that should be the case, because his accumulation of state victories will come in states whose populations and therefore electoral votes are slim.  But even that worst case scenario would mean that a criminal and moral degenerate still won the victory in most (28 out of 50 for 56%) of the states in a nation that by definition is morally corrupt.

 

If we consider that Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer all were more qualified to be president at this temporal juncture (Biden is over the hill and carries a lot of baggage from his political past);  that Bernie Sanders conveyed the most important message and was very deserving to be the Democratic candidate in November;  but that Klobuchar and Buttigieg quickly joined the Democratic establishment to endorse Biden--- then one gains further insight into our degenerate two-party system.

 

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Whatever happens in the November 2020 presidential contest, then, speaks eloquently of the moral corruption of the American people.

 

On the local level, we have seen this corruption, too, in the processes for considering and producing the MPS Comprehensive District Design.

 

Those who showed up to make public comments were mostly advancing

particularistic interests  >>>>>

 

>>>>>      They were being inconvenienced by prospective changes from preK-8 configurations to preK-5.

 

>>>>>      Their affluent, white Southwest Minneapolis students were going to lose magnet schools or to have to switch schools, including in the latter case some situations that would find them in majority African American schools on the Northside---  so that racism was rife among these Southwest Minneapolis white parents.

 

>>>>>      They were going to have to switch from their current Spanish Dual Immersion schools of attendance to others because rationalization of transportation routes and overall equity of location was resulting in movement of the immersion programs from certain schools to others.

 

>>>>>      They were, as in the case of students currently attending Dowling, Marcy, and Windom, losing their magnet status due to rationalization of transportation, equity of location,  and type of programming deemed by decision-makers most in demand.

 

None of these reasons conveyed any concern with the overall quality of academics in the Minneapolis Public Schools.  This is unsurprising for two major reasons: 

 

1)  most people were staring at their own navels;  and

 

2)  the general public has no more (and no less) idea of the constituent elements of an excellent education than do the inept decision-makers at the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

In November the general apathy and ignorance of the voting public will be exposed in the manner of the exposure of our national moral degradation  >>>>>

 

Many fewer people will vote for candidates for the four seats of the MPS Board of Education up for election than will vote in the presidential contest;  this is because they will not have taken the time to find out about the candidates running and because despite capability of being aroused by particularistic issues the public does not care about or know anything about excellence in preK-12 education.

 

On the high end of lamentable abiding realities is the fact that three of the four positions are likely to go uncontested:  Sharon El-Amin is likely to contest KerryJo Felder for the District 2 seat but Bob Walser (District 4), Kim Ellison (At-Large), and Ira Jourdain (District 6) are not likely to face opposition.  This means that the voting public, including those who showed up at public commentary to reveal concerns born of navel-staring, are satisfied with one of the worst assemblages among school boards across the country---  all the worse in view of the fact that the wretched composition of school boards is near universal and only a matter of degree.

 

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So it is that the presidential and school board elections in November 2020 will reveal in full view and stark reality the moral degeneracy of the citizenry of the (dis-)United States of America. 

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