Triad Conservative

No Holds Barred

HT: NC Renegade

"Take Back our Schools" Shakes Up the Cultural Marxists in Guilford County

There is a fairly lengthy article at Triad City Beat about the Take Back Our Schools advocacy group here in Guilford County. The article makes the audacious claim that the school superintendent, Sharon Contreras, has been threatened.

However, as you read through the lengthy article, I do not see any text that substantiates any kind of physical or violent threat. There might have been some edgy techniques or language, but no discrete, palpable threat.

Contreras and the school board ratchet up the anger of this group by refusing to hold in-person public meetings despite the fact that the COVID vaccine has been available to at-risk populations for many months; and despite the fact that we are near herd immunity. And their previous refusal to re-open the schools likely was an aggravating factor also.

The Chicken Little-like routine from some lefty school board members and administrators in response to the group is likely an effort to shut them down before they even have the opportunity to participate with in-person meetings.

Many groups similar to Take Back Our Schools are challenging local school boards throughout the country over the transgender mess and Critical Race Theory. The local group initially was interested for the most part in school safety and discipline; but it now has expanded its interests to the contagion of Social Emotional Learning within North Carolina public schools.

I support what this group is doing; and heartily encourage them to continue applying pressure.

And while Triad City Beat obviously enjoys highlighting the concerns of those within the system regarding this group, we know that the paper and the lefties they quote likely are not nearly as concerned about all the violence and destruction and murder caused by BLM, Antifa and the numerous other Marxist groups that have been on the march over the last several years. They weren't nearly as concerned about what happened even here in Greensboro a year ago during the protests.

If that makes them look like hypocrites, it is probably because they are. But remember that appearances of hypocrisy do not constrain the left, because they can get by with it.

Telling School Boards the Truth re: Gender, Critical Race Theory

The Dreaded Delta Variant of COVID-19

HT: Fred

Pride Month Exposed

NYC Mayoral Candidate/ Guardian Angel leader Curtis Sliwa Calls AOC "All Out Crazy"

I remember Curtis Sliwa from way back during the late '70's and early '80's in New York. He was fighting crime with his new organization-- the Guardian Angels-- when the political class and the NYPD would not: 

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Lotsa Luck, Patriots

I had the opportunity to attend a joint meeting of the Guilford Patriots and Triad Patriots a few days ago. The speaker was the Liberty Belle who gave a spirited talk about Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution and the "Necessary and Proper Clause". The vast majority of elected officials, regardless of party, strenuously disavow the original meaning of these sections.

The meeting was extremely well attended. The room was packed to standing room only. It was obvious that the leaders were passionately committed to conservatism.

It made me think back to the early days of Conservatives for Guilford County a dozen years ago. Then, just as now, a president with Marxist designs had been elected. People were afraid of what was going to happen to the country. With the Tea Party movement and the reaction to Obama, Republicans quickly regained ground. But they failed-- indeed, refused--- to roll back the most significant gains the Marxists made-- Obamacare and same-sex marriage. And the Tea Parties, including C4GC, faded away after the GOP scored some apparent wins, and as the years passed.

The new group appears to be at least somewhat Republican-aligned. The likelihood, however, is that they will learn to what extent they can rely on the Republicans, whose raison d'etre is to continuously plumb new depths of worthlessness. 

They will have their work cut out for them. Consider the following:

• The chairwoman of the Republican National Committee,  Ronna Romney-McDaniel, tweeted out support for Pride Month, and directed Republicans to support same-sex marriage. A new Gallup poll shows that 55% of Republicans, in fact, now support same-sex marriage.
• Thom Tillis and Richard Burr were both part of the "bipartisan" group that reached an agreement with Joe Biden on an expensive infrastructure deal that includes "Green New Deal" provisions. It will cost nearly a trillion dollars.
• The Republican state legislature in North Carolina just appointed two Democrats to the UNC Board of Governors. This occurred in the face of growing concerns that the Board of Governors has repeatedly failed to act when the university system's administrators and faculty fall deeper and deeper into cultural Marxism. 

And all of that is just within the last couple of weeks.

The new group's collective heart is in the right place. To the extent that it pursues constitutional/conservative policy outcomes, I hope it can score some enduring victories.