30-01-2025
Republicans can only maintain a majority if they double down against 'wokeness'
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To maintain a future majority of conservative Republicans (and common sense) nationwide, education reform is essential at all levels to reverse the indoctrination and corruption.
President Donald Trump's proposal to abolish the Department of Education is a step in the right direction, but it's not enough.
While we see good progress for school choice and home schooling in K-12 education, state-run colleges and universities who keep producing new Marxist-minded woke-wayward voters should be the next area to reform, allowing professors with alternative views to compete, and open debate of both sides.
Fortunately, Tennessee is mostly conservative, and has passed laws to encourage free expression of different views in our colleges and universities:
The "Campus Free Speech Protection Act" of 2017
The 'Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act' of 2023
It's encouraging that more voters in their 20s voted Republican, but we need far more.
I think the schools are a major area (the root of the problem) that many other states have neglected over the past decades, and is a major reason why Republicans lose their majority after making big wins.
Opinion: Memphis school board might be abolished over vouchers opposition. Who's next?
If you agree with this message, please send it (or preferably your own version of it) to at least two of your friends and relatives in other states and especially those that were swing states, encouraging them to write to their state legislators and governors about education reform. Let's keep the momentum going.
Stephen Martin, Crossville 38558
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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Tennessee anti-'woke' laws offer a roadmap to Republicans | Letters
