This week’s round of elections in the US can only be described as the first ripples of a red wave. While the big focus has — with good reason — been on the Virginia gubernatorial race, results across the country ought to spark panic among Democrats. The mid-term elections, next year, are shaping up as a blood-bath.
In New Jersey, a deep blue state, the Democrats were lucky to hold on — and may possibly see the close-run overturned on recount. Even more astonishing, the Democrat state Senate President was beaten by a truck driver with no political experience, who spent just a couple of hundred dollars campaigning. Senator-elect Edward Durr is a blue-collar, Christian conservative, NRA member who shot his campaign video on his own phone.
Meanwhile, in another deep-blue district, Republicans flipped Long Island, to be elected District Attorneys in both Nassau and Suffolk counties.
All in all, the Democrats should be very, very worried.
Especially after Virginia.
Vice-President Kamala Harris recently declared that “What happens in Virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024, and on”. Oh, how she must be regretting those words, now.
Harris, for once, was right, though. What happened in Virginia has far-reaching repercussions, not just because it happened, but because of why it happened.
The race for governor in Virginia won by Republican Glenn Youngkin was, to all intents and purposes, a critical race theory election. It should provide valuable insight for Australian politicians into the real concerns of mainstream Australians, as well as an opportunity for the government to use education to shape the next election.
Virginia is incredibly significant because it is a Democrat-supporting state that voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden at the 2020 presidential election.
As I wrote recently, Virginia was symptomatic of a wider battle in, not just America, but the whole West. What is being fought by the left is not just a culture war, but a war on parents.
In Virginia, parents who had had enough rose up and found that they are strong.
Across the country, parents of all races are uniting to reject CRT’s diabolical claims that the defining principle of the structure of Western societies is race, and that “whiteness” is the dominant system of power. They are dismissing the idea that white people are born with “white guilt” and “inherited guilt”, and they are repudiating the narrative that all black people are victims. They are refusing to allow schools to push this pessimistic, regressive and anti-materialist view that society’s default setting is racism.
According to the exit polls conducted by CBS following the election, education and the school curriculum were the top issues for half of all voters, from Democrat and Republican camps.
This has implications here, too. CRT is slithering its way into schools in both New Zealand and Australia, under the threadbare guise of “anti-racism”.
Recent polling commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs (data collected by Dynata) reveals that Australians do not support radical ideologies that are infiltrating classrooms. The polling shows that 82 per cent of Australians disagree with the statement that school students should be forced to apologise for their skin colour. And 86 per cent disagree that schools should make boys ashamed of being male. Meanwhile, 69 per cent do not believe that school students should be taught that Australia is a racist country. These statements refer to events that have all occurred in Australian classrooms.
Of course, in America as in Australia and New Zealand, the left have pivoted to denying that CRT is taught in schools — a cheap lie: it may not be taught as “Critical Race Theory”, but so-called “anti-racism” curricula such as “Racism! No Way!” parrot every single talking-point of CRT. From “white privilege” to “systemic racism”, Australian and Kiwi kids are being indoctrinated in CRT’s hateful, racist rhetoric.
Parents who are object are attacked, derided as “racists”, “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorists”. Which was the Democrats’ undoing in Virginia.
The fatal mistake made by Democrat Terry McAuliffe during the campaign was to say that he didn’t think “parents should be telling schools what they should teach”.
Although he later claimed that the audience had applauded his statement, it appears that it was the final nail in McAuliffe’s coffin. As it turns out, American parents believe they should be able to tell schools what they should teach and they certainly don’t want their children being taught CRT and radical gender theory. The Republicans in Virginia campaigned hard against such woke teaching in schools and were richly rewarded in the suburbs.
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In particular, the Virginia race flipped the sort of middle-class “soccer moms” who flocked to Joe Biden in 2020 because they were just turned off by Donald Trump. They are now taking out their buyer’s regret at the ballot box.
The outcome in Virginia presents an opportunity for Scott Morrison and Judith Collins, in each country, to re-shape the political landscape. Education is generally seen as the left’s strongest campaign area. Virginia showed that re-framing the debate on back-to-basics education, and rejecting far-left wokery like CRT and gender theory, is a winning strategy for the centre-right.
Parents, no matter what their race or colour, want to see their kids do well. Right now, all they are seeing are plummeting standards, growing division and their children being brainwashed.
And they are getting very angry about it.
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