Dori: Kshama Sawant’s student walkout all about creating mindless, government-dependent followers
Sep 25, 2018, 1:39 PM
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant leads a student protest at Seattle's Nova High School. (KIRO 7)
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At noon today, students in many Seattle schools were walking out of school. What I find so crazy is that a Seattle City Council member, Kshama Sawant, was the motivator behind this student walkout. It was all because one of the schools is losing a couple of teachers due to low enrollment.
What Kshama Sawant needs for her political life to be relevant is people who think they are victims. So what she has been screaming at the top of her lungs is that these kids are victims. Because the only way that socialism succeeds is if you can convince people that they’re helpless, that they have no control over their life, that if they don’t have government as their provider — taking other people’s stuff and giving it to them — then they have no shot in the world.
That is the dangerous message that Kshama Sawant tries to shove down the throats of the most mindless of students. The strong-willed, confident students who pave their own way in life and don’t rely on government are not susceptible to her message, but the weak ones are. And in Seattle, sadly, we have an awful lot of weak people. We have government-run schools that have told kids time and time again, “You are a victim, you have no chance, government has to be your provider.” And so the weakest fall into the little cult of Sawant and hold this student walkout.
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At Nova High School, an alternative high school in the Seattle School District, their enrollment is way down, and so the district is moving two teachers from that school to another school. Sawant believes that is worthy of a student walkout. Seattle Public Schools has already said that the teachers are not being cut. But facts are irrelevant for Sawant. How she got an economics degree, I will never know. She says one minute that they’re cutting teachers, and the next minute that they’re moving teachers. There’s a pretty big difference. But she’s talking to kids who will eat up whatever she says because they want to be victims.
This is what I find so dangerous about her and all socialists. In Seattle, we have a bunch of adults who are emotional juveniles running around who have been taught that they are victims. They have come to just repeat that mantra over and over again. They spend all their energy on anger, demanding that the city council take other people’s money and give it to them. If they put half of that energy into developing their own job skills and ability to earn, they would be fantastically successful. But this is exactly what Sawant and the rest of the socialists on the Seattle City Council want. They want a bunch of helpless people who feel they have no shot without government. They want you in economic handcuffs. You don’t have the common sense or self-confidence to compete or make your way in the world. They want you to be beholden to them.
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It is horribly sad to me because it is such a damaging message. As I’ve said on-air many times, I grew up with that message. “We’re in poverty, and hopefully someone will come along and provide some miracle for us.” I finally realized at 14 or 15 that you’ve got to rely on yourself. Sawant doesn’t care about these kids. There’s only one thing that Sawant cares about, and that is her own political career. The kids are pawns in her climb up that ladder.
