This is not surprising coming from a sitting congressman, not when you know that it’s a Republican we’re talking about and a hard core Trumpite. This is the face of the rank and file GOP in 2021, bone ignorant and whooping it up on social media. Cawthorn loves to play government. He’s taken the opposite career path from Donald Trump, his idol. Trump used the media to get into politics, Cawthorn is using politics to get into the media spotlight. I would not be surprised if he’s trying to become the next Joel Osteen and get the big money. All signs point to that.
This theme, “I am the militia” points to the holy war that Cawthorn is trying to incite.
Posted by Madison Cawthorn to his Instagram page last night. “I am the militia.” pic.twitter.com/358iUmiCov
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 10, 2021
Parse through that for a few seconds, and I don’t just mean the fact that a home schooled college drop out wrote this manifesto. Think about the fact that the public school system has been called “the great bulldozer that levels the playing field.” I can tell you that without public school I would never have learned to read, if my parents had to shell out $250 a week. And that’s for one child. Can you imagine having two or three and laying out that kind of cash? It’s not doable. This is patent insanity.
The hard core facts of the situation are that schools provide a number of social services beyond education. They give kids a place to go every day, a place to interact with their peers and become socialized, school lunches are subsidized, in some areas so are school breakfasts. Sports teams and other school activities contribute to cultural enrichment and give kids the opportunity to experience things that they wouldn’t otherwise, the chance to act in plays, march in bands, all that. That’s part of growing up. But Madison Cawthorn would rather we go back to a time where education was a rarity and affordable by the rich, only — and this is at a time when American society, and the world, has become progressively technological in nature.
The man is a flaming idiot and an embarrassment. I hope the people of his district see clear to vote him out.
As far back as the 90s I’d sometimes say when conservatives spoke of “Originalism” they didn’t mean going back to what they considered was the original meaning (their warped interpretation mind you) of the Constitution but back to the Articles of Confederation. Back to when rich folks in each state made up the rules and changed them whenever they feared regular folks might get a handle on things and start to expect the rights won during the Revolutionary War. But more recently it’s becoming apparent the goal is to go WAY back – to the feudal era of Lords and (illiterate, poor, poorly nourished and housed – to better control them) Serfs.
AofC: when states refused to pay the taxes due to the central (but very weak) government, even as they charged duties/taxes on stuff from other states, including things just passing through.
No one can live well on $250 a week, even in rural NC. Certainly not if you have to provide you own materials for work, travel at all, and pay rent.
He shouldn’t even be *in* congress if he’s that ignorant.
Yeah. Considering most public school teachers work just 36 weeks a year (roughly), $250 a week to home-school 10 kids only produces a total of $9000 a year. A minimum-wage worker flipping burgers at McDonalds or Burger King, working 40 hours a week for just 36 weeks a year would make $10,440 in the same time period.
And if he’s thinking the $250 a week is supposed to be PER CHILD (meaning $2500 a week total), I don’t know how many folks in his district could afford that. The teachers would certainly love that amount (that would come to $90,000 a year) but, for heaven’s sake, most “professional” babysitters make at least $10 an hour PER CHILD so you get 10 kids in that “home-school” situation, that would be $800 a day or $4000 a week (10 kids x $10/hour x 8 hours x 5 days/week) and most regular teachers would be thrilled to make that kind of money.
I don’t think he has a clue how much work professional teachers have to do, or that they have at least 4 years of college.
From Wikipedia:
He was home-schooled in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and played football in high school. As a teenager, he worked at a Chick-fil-A restaurant.
“Home-schooled” explains a lot. It doesn’t say much for his HS that he learned so little while he was there.
Let’s face it, he doesn’t have a clue period.
The problem with ‘home school’ is twofold, the teacher is the glass ceiling & therefore ‘home’ is a great propaganda nursery. It often amounts to no education. Guess that’s how u get a nation with 74million cult members, rebels without a clue.
Agreed, Scott!
This guy is an idiot. He’s the epitome of republicans stupid and it wouldn’t surprise me if he was right in the middle of J6. If he isn’t, it’s not for a lack of trying.