A Wisconsin superintendent who is up for reelection this Tuesday is once again demonstrating the glaring hypocrisy of leftists, as she wants to eliminate school choice, even though she herself sent her kids to private school.
From ancient monarchs to Communist mass murderers to slaveowners to modern Democrat elitists, tyrants have long sought to deprive most people of a quality education. The idea is to force most of the population into a subsistence lifestyle where they have no time to do anything but work to survive — barely. Jill Underly, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction, can apparently be added to the list of such uneasy autocrats.
Asked about school choice, Underly said, “I would like to see it eliminated." But the real kicker is that, according to Libs of TikTok, Underly sent her own kids to private school. Time to vote her out of office.
Jill Underly, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction, wants to completely eliminate school choice programs after sending her own kids to PRIVATE school. She's hoping to get reelected this coming Tuesday. VOTE HER OUT.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) Mar 27, 2025
Recently, as I researched dozens of slave narratives, I noticed a common theme: they almost all mentioned that their masters and mistresses, even the “good” ones, were very strict about preventing slaves from being educated. Slave owners were often physically abusive and downright vicious to slaves trying to learn how to read or write, even if they were reading the Bible. Frederick Douglass was one slave who experienced and witnessed violence against slaves trying to study the Bible. Numerous former slaves remembered that nothing infuriated their masters so much as seeing a slave with a book.
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Why was that? Simply put, the more education a man has (real education, reading good books and learning how to think), the harder it becomes to control him. Suppose the slaves were to read all of the Bible and find out that God abolished life-long slavery among the Israelites (Jeremiah 43:14)? Suppose they were to read that before God there is neither slave nor free, all are equal in His eyes (Galatians 3:28)? Or what if they might eventually read other authors who criticize slavery or say that freedom is a right for all, including our own Founders? How terrible! So very few masters allowed their slaves to learn to read and write, especially by the time of the Civil War.
It has always been true, even sometimes unjustly true, that certain jobs and levels of success are reserved for those more educated. Our modern world is ridiculously stratified based on college education, with many jobs open only to those with university degrees. In America, we do not have a titled aristocracy, but we have long had a sort of aristocracy based on education.
Instead of simply worshipping degrees, we should work toward renewing grade school education. We want the next generation to have both practical skills like sewing and carpentry, while also being well-read and mathematically skilled. George Washington meant to erase as much as he could the harm of prior enslavement when he wrote in his will that his slaves should not only be freed, but should be educated.
Rational thought is the hallmark of man, rather than of animals, and slave owners try to keep their slaves in an animalistic, and therefore easily controlled, state by restricting their ability to think for themselves.
In fact, when I was in Vietnam, my tour guide told me that, in that country during the war, the educated Vietnamese who were able to understand the concepts of liberty and democracy were much more likely to be pro-American. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese who were illiterate were more likely to fall for the brutal Communist Viet Cong’s propaganda.
In Cambodia, my tour guide talked about family members of his who were targeted or killed in the bloody massacres under Communist dictator Pol Pot because they were educated. It is a fact that Pol Pot deliberately tried to wipe out the educated Cambodians, seeing them as a threat to his rule, rooted as it was in lies (read the survivor’s recollections and watch below).
The Commie Democrats in America now, as much as their slaveowning predecessors, are determined to make our educational institutions little more than leftist propaganda mills — aside, perhaps, from a few elite schools for their children, like Underly’s. The Founding Fathers had a totally opposite vision.
The Founders hoped that all Americans, not just a handful, would always value a classical education grounded in the best of Judeo-Christian teaching and Western civilization. Otherwise, they feared we would become too irrational, emotional, and gullible to rule ourselves, and our Constitution would be ignored or destroyed. We have come perilously close to fulfilling their nightmare.
Fortunately, most Americans now do see through the worst leftist lies, which is why it is so terribly important, even vital, that we save our schools and our children from the likes of Jill Underly. We don’t want to become slaves on the Democrats’ political and educational plantation.
