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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