Democracy is a promise of goodwill toward each other. We watched our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, exhibit anything but goodwill yesterday when our government met to do something about the Epstein victims, the women sitting behind her who raised their hands to say no one ever met with them, the women she would not offer a smile, or even a glance.
The crowning glory of her performance to maintain the Epstein cover-up was when she admitted what counts to our current regime—MONEY.
“The Dow is over 50,000 dol,” she said as she lectured on what really counts in this nation, not finishing the word “dollars,” seemingly because so many people were laughing at her, so she corrected herself, oblivious to why she is the brunt of a joke to so many.
Since we measure the Dow in points, not money, her misstatement was laughable for that reason. And could we really have such an ignorant attorney general? had to be an exploding mental-chyron, as invisible as were those victims.
However, since money floods the minds of fascists—what one must become to work for Trump—it was her telling slip that likely caused nervous laughter.
Her performance was a bleak reminder of how much we are not a democracy to all the Democrats who also played a role in losing it.
Like the almost invisible Epstein victims, I have been seeking help for decades, only I’m seeking it for teacher whistleblowers. The wrongs are different, but the spirit of the abuse is the same: our alleged democratic government allows the rich and powerful to get away with stuff.
The biggest difference between us as victims is: what they did to teachers, they did to We the People—you. They stole your schools and put your children in harm’s way, while chipping away at democracy with schools incapable of producing citizens. And they did this so cleverly and thoroughly, with the teachers’ unions both paralyzed-in-fear accomplices, they’re confident you won’t listen to me.
My union attorney, who represented me when they fired me, a tenured teacher, for speaking out about harm to children, told me a lot of people have tried to expose this. No one will ever get anywhere. Don’t waste your time. Because they believe that it has been true.
Education is truly a deep state. Whistleblowers will tell you that if anyone ever decides to listen to them.
This is what made so many people mad enough to elect a con man. It never made sense to me to trust a con man, but I understand why it made sense to them. We’re being conned, so who could help us more than a con man? The problem with that thinking is that if you researched con men, you’d know they only care about money and power for themselves.
But that mistake, albeit huge, is beside my point today.
My focus is that we are not a democracy if we rig things in favor of the rich and powerful, and nowhere has this been done more efficiently and exclusively than in education.
So I watched the obvious cover-up with Bondi thinking: This is par for the course.
She was correct that other administrations made ignoring the Epstein victims a thing. And Republican Thomas Massie, representing those who are sick and tired of both parties cheating at democracy as if it were a game, pointed out that they were meeting and questioning her to end this wrongful practice of favoring the rich and powerful at the expense of the rest of us. Kudos to Massie!
Previously, I told you about my speech at the Washington, D.C. Mall, on October 18, 2008, where I tried to make what’s going on in our schools public. I won’t ask you to watch it again, but here are 14 seconds that prove I warned we were going to lose our democracy.
You can learn all about this march to alert the public that our schools were corrupt and chipping away at democracy at: https://www.endteacherabuse.org/epic.html
On that page, you will see I wrote the following words, calling what teachers faced fascism. It was then mostly reserved for teachers, but now you, the public, are experiencing it because, like the Epstein victims, no one with power would do a thing about it. (Forgive me for not getting into all other minorities’ plights with fascism, which we know exist, since if we could get our schools right, we would grow as a society. My mission is not just to save democracy, but to create a more perfect one.)
In a democracy, free speech forces the weighing of decisions by those in leadership positions. With access to information, people can express their desires to their leaders. In a closed society or fascist regime, there is no free speech and no weighing of decisions. What the leaders want goes, period. What we now have in our country is an interesting mix, or what I call creative fascism, where ideas that conflict with the powers that be are trapped in a vacuum. We have an education system with the power to do whatever it wants and thus hide its wrongdoing, much of which is criminal. Stopping its employees from participating in a protest is simple. With their absolute power, fear is easily ignited. More importantly, this system has organized itself comfortably with the media so that all it needs to do is let it be known that publicity cannot happen, and it won’t!
I lived through creative fascism as a teacher. If you listen to my entire speech, you will hear me mention how the powers that be sabotaged that march, and only a handful of teachers showed up.
The Epstein victims have been living through creative fascism, too, until authentic fascism recently took over. Fascism is not okay for anyone, ever, in a democracy.
The memoir of my teaching days, A Graver Danger: White Chalk Crime, The Stunning First-Ever Explanation for School Shootings & How We End Them, will educate you about our schools in a way never done before; no one has included the voices of the whistleblowers.
The public has no idea how treacherous our schools really are. They will after they read my book, the book no one in power wants you to read.
Join me and help me pile this education issue on top of the Epstein issue and topple fascism! Help me get this to Thomas Massie, a hero as far as I am concerned. If you live in Kentucky, please reach out to him. Tell him about my work.
Trust me, once you learn how corrupt so many of our schools really are, you’ll wonder why it took this long to lose democracy!
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