The Politics
The Politics of Hope
Throughout history political leaders have used the Politics of Fear to motivate the public into supporting their agendas. If the general public believe that something or someone threatens their lives, livelihoods, or lifestyles they tend to concede power to government and authority figures. This makes it easy for unethically savvy leaders to make just about whatever they wish to have happen – happen.
Sometimes the Politics of Fear are frightfully effective. After WWI the Nazis managed to convince the public that Jews were gong to take everything away from them. The German citizens were told that the Jews were a threat to their livelihoods and lifestyles. The citizens of Germany gave their power away to the Nazis and found themselves living in a harsh police state that committed the largest genocide in history.
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The Politics of American Public Education and Why Dramatic Progress Still Eludes Us
The current political efforts aimed at improving the American public educational system appear to reflect Einstein’s definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over again hoping for different results – than truly creating sustainable change. Until, we begin at square one, sustainable educational achievement will not happen and the limited resources of time, people and taxpayer’s dollars will continue to be depleted.
A closer examination of the facts that are rarely discussed needs to be reviewed.
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