On ABC's This Week, panelist and New York Times reporter Jane Coaston made an example out of herself by proving once again why nationally syndicated talk radio host Chris Plante's saying that "the left has no sense of irony" is perfectly stated. During the "Powerhouse Roundtable" segment on the topic of Flordia's recently enacted fetal heartbeat law, Coaston said with a straight face that "the most important political priority for any political party is to not be the people telling people what to do." This is hilarious considering Coaston's Democrat Party through their embedded bureaucracy in the CDC and woke corporations pushed lockdowns and forced vaccines and mask mandates on Americans.
"For the last five years, we've heard from Republicans, especially even during COVID, about how freedom was going to reign and that they were just going to let people make decisions for themselves. They want to be the cool mom of politics. Well, that era has ended," Coaston claimed.
She then went on to lecture the GOP that "For Republicans, it's going to be challenging to try to sound simultaneously like cool mom and the moral majority that so many of us grew up with."
As pointed out earlier in this blog, the left loves using the power of the state to push their woke leftist agenda on their citizens. But during the ABC segment, former New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie pointed to another example of the Democrat Party and their allies preventing Americans from making their own choices:
CHRIS CHRISTIE: Well, the Democratic Party is all for that on abortion but they are against it when it comes to public education. When it comes to public education, people shouldn't be able to make their own decisions. You shouldn't be able to have the ability to have your child go to parochial school if you can't afford it, or to go to a charter school if they’re not available in your town. Or to be able to decide what your children should be able to learn about sexuality and at what age they should learn that.
Christie pointed out that "the Democrats are going to have a hard time making that case when you look at public education and what their position is, which is us and the teachers' unions know what to tell your children and where they should go to school and how they should be taught."
The governor is spot on! To quote Chris Plante again "Democrats don't care what you do as long as it's mandatory. What they don't want to make mandatory, they want to ban."
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ABC’s This Week
4/16/2023
9:45:09 a.m. EasternJANE COASTON: I think the most important political priority for any political party is to not be the people telling people what to do. For the last five years, we've heard from Republicans, especially even during COVID, about how freedom was going to reign and that they were just going to let people make decisions for themselves. They want to be the cool mom of politics. Well, that era has ended. And I think that there's a specific type of libertarianism that is very popular in America. Unlike the Libertarian Party. But there's a specific type of, don't tell me what to do, let me make my decisions. Let me make my decisions for my family, that is very politically profitable. And I think that if Democrats are able to say that we are the party that says you can make these decisions. You can make decisions for your family. Your family can make decisions for themselves. I think that that will be politically profitable. And I think that for Republicans, it's going to be challenging to try to sound simultaneously like cool mom and the moral majority that so many of us grew up with.
CHRIS CHRISTIE: Well, the Democratic Party is all for that on abortion but they are against it when it comes to public education. When it comes to public education, people shouldn't be able to make their own decisions. You shouldn't be able to have the ability to have your child go to parochial school if you can't afford it, or to go to a charter school if they’re not available in your town. Or to be able to decide what your children should be able to learn about sexuality and at what age they should learn that. So the Democrats are going to have a hard time making that case when you look at public education and what their position is, which is us and the teachers' unions know what to tell your children and where they should go to school and how they should be taught.
