| | Civil rights leader [[David Horowitz]], a repentant [[New Left]]ist who has been active in fighting for civil rights since 1948 noted, {{quotebox|the first thing is that progressives don't care at all about black people or poor people or minorities. But they use them as symbols to bash America. It's part of their agenda to overthrow our system and establish their socialist [[police state]].<br><br>What people need to focus on in the first place is that every inner city in America, every killing field --- Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, [[St. Louis]], Washington, DC --- every one of them is 100 percent controlled by the Democratic Party and have been for 50 to 100 years. Everything that's wrong with the inner cities in America, everything that oppresses poor, white, black and Hispanic people mainly --- beginning with the schools that fail these kids, they fail to teach them year in and year out because they're run for the adults and the teacher unions, which are slush funds for the Democratic Party --- every one of those things is 100 percent controlled by the Democratic Party.<ref>https://www.glennbeck.com/2016/05/26/david-horowitz-on-how-progressives-destroy-cities-families-and-the-poor/</ref>}} | | Civil rights leader [[David Horowitz]], a repentant [[New Left]]ist who has been active in fighting for civil rights since 1948 noted, {{quotebox|the first thing is that progressives don't care at all about black people or poor people or minorities. But they use them as symbols to bash America. It's part of their agenda to overthrow our system and establish their socialist [[police state]].<br><br>What people need to focus on in the first place is that every inner city in America, every killing field --- Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, [[St. Louis]], Washington, DC --- every one of them is 100 percent controlled by the Democratic Party and have been for 50 to 100 years. Everything that's wrong with the inner cities in America, everything that oppresses poor, white, black and Hispanic people mainly --- beginning with the schools that fail these kids, they fail to teach them year in and year out because they're run for the adults and the teacher unions, which are slush funds for the Democratic Party --- every one of those things is 100 percent controlled by the Democratic Party.<ref>https://www.glennbeck.com/2016/05/26/david-horowitz-on-how-progressives-destroy-cities-families-and-the-poor/</ref>}} |
| | Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready of [[North Carolina]] sends his children to an $18,000 a year private school, but that didn't stop him from accusing his Republican opponent at an [[NAACP]] event of having no faith in public schools.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/16/dan-mccready-north-carolina-school/</ref> | | Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready of [[North Carolina]] sends his children to an $18,000 a year private school, but that didn't stop him from accusing his Republican opponent at an [[NAACP]] event of having no faith in public schools.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/16/dan-mccready-north-carolina-school/</ref> |
| | In [[Atlanta]], the Democrat-run school system was so thoroughly corrupt that teachers and administrators were sent to prison for doctoring test scores. | | In [[Atlanta]], the Democrat-run school system was so thoroughly corrupt that teachers and administrators were sent to prison for doctoring test scores. |
| | In California, the Democrat-run teachers’ unions fought a state law that would have made it easier to fire teachers who had sexual relations with children in their care. When a [[Los Angeles]] teacher accused of sexual impropriety with his students was fired, he sued to appeal his firing. The Democrat-dominated school district paid him to drop the appeal. | | In California, the Democrat-run teachers’ unions fought a state law that would have made it easier to fire teachers who had sexual relations with children in their care. When a [[Los Angeles]] teacher accused of sexual impropriety with his students was fired, he sued to appeal his firing. The Democrat-dominated school district paid him to drop the appeal. |