One thing that came across loud and clear in Virginia’s gubernatorial race is that parents will vote in the best interests of their children, and telling them that they shouldn’t have a say in what schools teach was not a winning strategy. Then we had the Justice Department set up a task force to counter the “domestic terrorists” who were showing up at school board meetings and having their say.
We’re not sure why the New York Times is visiting this today, but it’s reporting that some parents changed their politics in the pandemic, and it’s going to have an effect on the midterm elections. They used to be Republicans and Democrats, but now they’re just … parents.
The @nytimes is so afraid of parents and how we will vote this November they decided to write a hit piece on us. Great sign. https://t.co/F6PYLE1HwY pic.twitter.com/3BJpO6wXTF
— Laura Fagan (@laurajfagan) August 1, 2022
My view on open schools and no mandates in schools has 100% been informed by what European/Nordic countries have done and are doing. But the @nytimes didn’t include anything on what’s happening over there. Easier to just do lazy reporting and call us names.
— Laura Fagan (@laurajfagan) August 1, 2022
Heaven forbid that we “intensely” care about what happens to our kids all day everyday.
— Jenny Rose Finkel Mason (@jrfinkel) August 1, 2022
If literally any institution intensely cared about kids’ wellbeing even a little bit, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. https://t.co/EobtQqFQlr
— Laura Fagan (@laurajfagan) August 1, 2022
Sheera Frenkel writes:
Nearly half of Americans oppose masking and a similar share is against vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, polls show. But what is obscured
in those numbers is the intensity with which some parents have embraced these views. While they once described themselves as
Republicans or Democrats, they now identify as independents who plan to vote based solely on vaccine policies.Their transformation injects an unpredictable element into November’s midterm elections. Fueled by a sense of righteousness
after Covid vaccine and mask mandates ended, many of these parents have become increasingly dogmatic, convinced that unless they act, new
mandates will be passed after the midterms.To back up their beliefs, some have organized rallies and disrupted local school board meetings. Others are raising money for anti-mask
and anti-vaccine candidates like J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for Senate in Ohio; Reinette Senum, an independent running for
governor in California; and Rob Astorino, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York.
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Frenkel adds that worried parents shared notes and online articles — “many of them misleading” — about the reopening of schools and the efficacy of vaccines and masks.
I like how they try to denigrate the subjects of the piece by calling them single-issue voters. If getting the party out of office that has been primarily responsible for ruining children's lives and futures makes one "single issue," I'm proud to be described as such
— Jenin Younes (@Leftylockdowns1) August 1, 2022
"They pushed to reopen schools and craved normalcy. They became angry, blaming lawmakers for the disruption to their children’s lives." yes. we did. we do.
— Erica Sandberg 舊金山的神奇女俠 (@EricaJSandberg) August 1, 2022
So the writer at the NYT is discovering that mothers are mothers? There is intensity involved in motherhood that goes way beyond being a "voter".
— Gold Standard (@No1GoldStandard) August 1, 2022
Proud to be one of those parents!!!
— Rachel (@rachelnjmom) August 1, 2022
Urban liberals that worked remote radicalized themselves and wonder now why everyone else thinks that they went completely crazy.
— Hank Forrester (@mcreditably) August 1, 2022
They have no idea about what is coming in November.
— steve c (@CirianoSteve) August 1, 2022
The best part of this is that NYT treats parents like a bunch of ignorant rubes when in fact they are citing NEJM and BMJ articles at school board meetings and talking about confounding factors in RCTs w/other moms at the playground.
— Julia Stitch (@mrsjuliastitch) August 1, 2022
Voting “solely on vaccine policies” which destroyed the lives of millions of children and ruptured the fabric of society, as well as causing global economic calamities.
So, yeah, single-issue voters.— Chef De Cuisine (@theonlychefmo) August 1, 2022
Single-issue voter for abortion? Moral Clarity.
Single-issue voter for your children? Moral Turpitude.— Clinton Davidson (@ClintonDavidson) August 1, 2022
It’s so odd how the mainstream media and the Left view “parents” as some sort of obstruction to their desired ends.
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Megan Rapinoe assures parents that their kids’ high school volleyball team ‘just isn’t that important’ https://t.co/egXuyfQnqA
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 21, 2022
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