Are We Going Mad or is it Just Me? Probably Just Me.

From my vantage point.

Choosing Jesus is possibly a bad thing, but justifying actual theocracies is ok.

The United States is bad, but countries that deal without 2% of what the USA does is great.

Walls are ok when it has to do with any other country, but not with the USA.

Anti-Israel Jews are heroes, but conservative African Americans are sell outs and black Americans are only allowed to think a certain way.

You can't define a woman, yet we have people in positions of power fighting for women's rights.

The police in the USA are evil, yet you will defend the "moral" police in other countries as part of their culture.

People here fight to keep the freedom we have and that's bad, but you celebrate that women can drive in a foreign country...I mean it is 2024.

Women's sports are good, yet you support it being infiltrated by non-biological women.

I was a pretty hardcore conservative in high school.

Then in my 20's I found some empathy in me and swung to the opposite end to the Left.

Then as I grew in my experiences and then my faith I straddled the middle of the political spectrum.

But what has happened in the last 8 years in something that my most ardent Liberal friends feel like they're being pulled to the middle and that is because the Left is moving even more to the Left.

So Bill Maher, Alan Dershowitz and other traditional Liberals are looking around and agreeing with many "conservatives" on many issues because as the Left moves further left, the center is moving towards them.

I hope for the sake of everyone that we look in the mirror and see what we're doing.

Because it makes little to no sense.

But maybe, just maybe it's because I am aging and..."hey kids! Get off my lawn!"

Teacher's Kids

Teaching is about relationships.

It probably always has been, but kids today need that relationship.

Teaching is getting the information across to the students.

It's not about lesson plans.

It's not about standards.

It's not about having the right signs up in your classroom.

It's not about using technology.

It's not about being deemed an effective teacher by someone who rarely comes into your class.

It's not about checking boxes.

It is about connecting with the students and hoping to inspire them to learn.

How do you measure that?

I don't know how you can officially do it with metrics and measurable data because a good teacher doesn't always have the best test scores.

All teachers can manipulate data to show that they have taught info by test scores, but that's not teaching either.

Teaching is about having kids in your classroom at the beginning of a school year, they learn, get smarter, but want to continue learning after they leave your class.

Want to see a good teacher?

Look at teacher's kids...how well do they do?

From my experiences, I can tell you it's not because of anything that happens in a building from 8 AM to 3 PM, but what happens in a building from 3 PM until the next day...in their homes.

The Outrageousness of Comparison

The Nazis and Adolph Hitler were able to come to power due to the ending of World War I.

What happened there directly led to Hitler taking power.

Let's look at some of the things that happened.

Germany, which did not start WWI but got involved due to the entangled treaty system, had to accept full responsibility for the war.

Germany had to give up land and economic areas to keep them weak both militarily and economically. 

They lost the Rhine land which was a huge loss economically.

Germans were living in Czechoslovakia and Austria.

Hitler and the Nazis took power with the argument to make Germany strong again.

Once these elected people took more power, they took back the Rhine land.

Once this elected and supported group took back that area, they invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia to unite the Germany people.

Under today's ideals, the Nazis were fighting back against colonialism and fighting to unite its people in a homeland that they had deserved and lived in for years.

From there, Hitler and the Nazis invaded Germany and spread out...they were not stopped, but appeased and their violence not only against all of Europe, but the Jews specifically could have possibly been stopped.

After WWII, Israel formed and the Jews said "never again!"

This is very similar to what Hamas has done in Palestine, except now, there is no appeasement.

War is terrible, but the blame must be put on who creates the violence.

It's not the country that has over and over given up land for peace with Jordan, Syria, Egypt and even Palestine.

That country has had to do extreme things to protect itself because every time it tries for peace, more violence is done against them.

The group that Israel is fighting today, if not stopped, wants the total annihilation of Israel.

You're either ok with that or you are not.

I am not.

And I hate that Hamas brought this upon the people in that region.