It's an astounding measure of the Left's bureaucratic and media power that so many American parents has absolutely no idea how bad political indoctrination in schools has become until a few months ago.
The Left's media goons are scrambling to frame concerned parents as domestic terrorists, but if you watch any of these school board meetings or interviews with the parents, they're more surprised than angry. They really didn't know what lefty teachers were doing to their kids.
Some of the anger parents are projecting is anger at themselves. They're kicking themselves for not paying closer attention while their schools were infiltrated, subverted, and perverted by radical left-wing ideologues. They wonder how it got so bad without them noticing.
And of course, reactive fury against the Left's political and media savaging of concerned parents is building - but there's surprise mixed in with THAT, too. Parents are shocked that the people who run "their" schools could instantly label them terrorists and sic the FBI on them.
It's stunning for honest, hard-working parents to hear the Left actually come out and say: These are not YOUR children. They belong to us, to the State. You aren't qualified to have an opinion about what we teach them. Your involvement is not welcome.
A lot of average middle-class parents simply had no idea this mindset had taken hold of the hyper-politicized educational establishment. They dismissed earlier warnings as paranoia, and now they're mad at themselves for not listening.
When you mix surprise, fear, regret, anger, and revulsion, you get horror. The parents of America are horrified to learn what has been done to their schools. They're still trying to process their horror while the Left's huge, well-oiled attack machine goes to work on them.
Involved parents could become the grassroots movement that changes everything - or they might be demoralized and intimidated back into silence by their authoritarian adversaries. The outcome is still in doubt. The battle for schools is today's Lexington and Concord.
And some of the hot fury of the Left's counterattack against parents is born from surprise as well. The Left was drooling at the thought of using the pandemic to expand its power and crush school choice. They did not foresee a resistance movement catching fire like this. /end
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