Seething with rage over Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s criticism of J.B. Pritzker’s fondness for criminals, the inept Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued a histrionic press release that insults Chicago parents who don’t march in lockstep with jackbooted leftists.
Noem was in Springfield to give voice to families who have endured agonizing losses due to the open border policies of Biden and his puppeteers and the sanctuary state and city policies in Illinois that incentivized border criminals to come to Chicago.
The CTU begins its laughable press release by accusing “Trump’s Troops” of making “Chicago and the state of Illinois a target because our movement demonstrates a sustained ability to expand democracy in a time of rising fascism.”
The CTU has a curious history of tossing fascism accusations willy nilly. In August 2023, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates described school choice supporters as racists and fascists, following which Illinoisans learned she had chosen to send her son to an expensive Catholic private school. Good for she, but not for thee.
Democrats, in collusion with GOP-lite former governor Bruce Rauner—once named the worst governor in America by National Review—made Chicago a sanctuary city. So, apparently Illinois Democrats seek to expand democracy by expanding the population of illegals whose votes Dems covet while forcing hardworking Illinoisans to subsidize the education and health care of lawbreakers.
It’s ironic that leftists would describe supporters of the Trump administration as “fascists” in that fascist leaders do not seek to reduce the size of government as the Trump administration is working diligently to do.
Fascists do, however, favor political unrest to achieve their ends, which is exactly what J.B. Pritzker recently called for in his New Hampshire fundraising speech that was such a political blunder that he was forced to try to clean up his mess. (If only he had a spare toilet laying around.)
He said,
Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.
Fascists also try to control speech, censor books, and shut down speakers, all of which Dems have been doing for years.
Dems passed “hate crime” policies and laws to eradicate the expression of ideas they hate.
They control publishing companies that refuse to publish books that espouse ideas leftists hate.
They seek to compel Amazon to stop selling books they hate.
They socially construct “collection development policies” that serve as de facto censorship mechanisms, determining what books libraries will purchase (hint: they’re not conservative books).
They control schools and teachers unions that shape curricula by including pro-homosexual, pro-trans, pro-CRT/DEI resources while excluding dissenting resources.
Leftists have demanded all employees in corporations and schools attend DEI indoctrination training—not so different from Communist China’s struggle sessions.
Fascist movements target for extermination humans deemed unworthy of life. Who supports the genocidal slaughter of weak, imperfect, or otherwise unwanted humans? Who supports the deliberate starvation of incipient human lives. Who supports the legal right of doctors to puncture the skulls and vacuum out the brains of tiny humans? Who supports the legal right of doctors to sever the limbs and “donate” the organs of tiny humans deemed unworthy of life? Nazi fascists had a term for that: Lebensunwertes Leben.
The CTU continues, arrogating to itself the ability to speak for every right-mined person in America:
Of course, no one in their right mind gives credence to Noem, because every day it becomes more obvious that the American people are rejecting the politics of the billionaire class.
Of course, indubitably, obviously, clearly, only mindless, insane people give credence to Noem—says the Chicago Teachers Union that controls one of the worst-functioning school districts in the country.
According to both Google Gemini and Chat GPT, while CPS per-student funding increased significantly between 2012-13 to 2021-22—it now ranks among the highest spending major urban school districts—“academic outcomes have declined.”
To whom exactly is the CTU referring when it criticizes the politics of the billionaire class? Would that be the politics of George and Alex Soros? The politics of J.B. Pritzker and his crossdressing cousin? Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg, Reid Hoffman, Richard Blum? Would that be the politics of homosexual activist and billionaire Jon Stryker, or crossdressing billionaire “Martine” Rothblatt? I guess the leftist politics of homosexual activist Tim Gill aren’t relevant because his net worth is only half a billion dollars.
CTU demagogues warn all right-minded Americans to “resist the oligarchs’ sprint to authoritarian rule and challenge our blue state leadership to create and fund the resistance and forcefield needed to survive these moments.”
No worries at all about the leftist oligarchs who have been careening and slithering all over this land from California to the New York Island for decades funding leftist institutional bias everywhere.
Leftists rely on ad hominem attacks to demagogue the public. They were using “racist,” until their “antiracist” jig was up and the disgraced Ibram X. Kendi slunk off stage left.
Next up, leftists landed on “Nazi,” which they hurled even at Jews if those Jews were conservative.
Running out of epithets, leftists have plucked “oligarch” from their nearly empty bag of meany names. They can’t use “millionaire oligarchs” because leftist millionaires have been scurrying around, largely unimpeded, for decades, embedding their doctrine systemically in American institutional life.
The CTU longs for Illinois Democrats, who have made Chicago unlivable and sent decent Illinoisans fleeing for sanctuary into neighboring states, to be given control and cash sufficient to stop efforts to control illegal immigration, keep men from women’s private spaces, reserve girls’ sports for girls, reduce the size of government, and eliminate wasteful public funding of projects infused with DEI dogma:
We are going to resist Trump and his troops and we are going to challenge our governor and Democrats in Chicago and Cook County to safeguard our ability to teach the truth, implement Black Student Success plans, protect trans people, uphold sanctuary policies and tax the rich.
To leftists, “truth” is any belief they embrace no matter how absurd.
Teaching “truth” entails creating criteria that defines “age-appropriate” in such a way as to justify exposing young children to leftist dogma, including obscene images, on sex and gender. Leftists wouldn’t know truth if it walked right up and slapped them upside their empty noggins.
CTU returns to its sci-fi dreams, fancying itself and all the right-minded people on the verge of extinction and fretting for the first time about the price of eggs:
In order to build the resistance and create the forcefield for survival, we challenge our governor to tax billionaires who fund ten minute jaunts into space while working people struggle to buy eggs and milk. We need sustainable revenue and fiery speeches. We need clear opposition to Trump and a Trump Rainy Day Fund. We can do both. Trump’s billionaire bros obviously see our state as a threat to their agenda. Let’s do more to demonstrate they are right.
While the CTU pretends to care about the price of eggs and milk for Americans, they beg for “sustainable revenue.” Surely by now, Illinoisans know exactly from where the CTU’s sustainable revenue comes.
Trump’s billionaire bros and millions of ordinary Americans—Dems know them as deplorables and garbage people—do, indeed, see the CTU and its collaborators as a threat. That’s why Trump was elected.
We see them as a threat to everything good and decent, to women and children, to speech rights and religious liberty, to intellectual diversity, to energy independence, to secure borders—in short, to everything that makes America great.