Arthur Orr, Robert Bentley, and Mike Hubbard are leading the charge to destroy our State's public school system and its employees. As a lifelong Republican, I have been convinced by these men to vote Democratic from this point forward. #DissappointmentBigTimeInRepubLeadership

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Republican? Yes, of course you are.

In politics, as in the news media, the preservation of ideology has forever been of utmost importance. What is unspoken or unwritten resonates just as powerfully as that which is uttered or appears in print. Oftentimes, it is in unreported silence that the news media enables political endeavor. The recent Solyndra controversy, for example, serves to illustrate this interesting dichotomy. By attributing responsibility, and devoting coverage, to corrupt management, global competition, etc., the unreported, failed, liberal ideology silently survives. It is a tactic which dates to antiquity. Not surprisingly, such is the case in the current debate over the failed public school system. It is what is concealed, or misdirected, that poses the greatest threat to, yet escapes the notice of, public school teachers, and lies at the very heart of the issue.

Similarly, the Decatur Daily, wittingly or not, is engaged in this deception. Editorials and articles intended to shape debate focus exclusively on the defense of the public school system and teachers, the insidious implication being that they are the problem and require defense, and liken opposition to economic and racial bigotry, sparking angry accusation and denial on both sides and masking the obvious motive. Educated parents do not opt to fund two schools, one through taxation, the other through earned income, due to racial or economic association, but, for unreported, and far more lethal, consideration. They fear that a temporarily wayward or rebellious child might, through falsehood or emotional plea, acquire birth control pills, be counseled toward abortion, and other despicable options not available in the home. They do not want their children studying America's failure, or imbued with government sponsored homosexual tolerance. It is exposure to this nightmare from which parents recoil, and, which defies teacher comprehension. So uncomfortable this truth, and so ingrained their racial views, teachers cannot see what lies directly before them. It is not coincidental that, like the Solyndra debacle, news coverage is concentrated on teachers and the school system rather than the abhorrent curriculum and social agenda, about which there is not a whisper. There are no editorials even remotely suggesting that parents enroll their children in schools that observe values consistent with their own. So long as reportage and controversy remains with teachers and the public school system, the Democrat social ideology survives. Eventually, the teachers and the system, like inept Solyndra management and global competition, will become scapegoats, sacrificed on the alter of Democrat ideals. While what goes unremarked imperils public school teachers, the horrific ideology cannot be permitted to be seen as wrong, or even errant. Absent honest reportage, the ideology does not suffer diminution. In other words, by removing birth control, homosexual tolerance, abortion, cell phones, etc., and adopting community values, teachers and the public school system win, as parents can forgo further expensive tuition and return their children to the public schools. There is no chance, however, the Democrat Party, will abide this accommodation, and, it is for this reason that public school teachers, indeed the whole of public education loses, while the ideology and social agenda survives. Teachers who believe in and blindly advance the racial and economic narrative, that is to say the misdirection, and ignore the true public perception of the hostile social agenda, are thus cleverly duped into perpetuating their own demise, but............ the ideology survives.

Right you are Otis...right you are!