Board of Regents becomes ‘thought police’

The Iowa GOP has the Board of Regents doing its micromanagement for the Thought Police.

The right-wingers prefer to be seen as against diversity, equality, and inclusion instead of in favor of uniformity, injustice, and exclusion. However, the Iowa GOP can more accurately be understood as in favor of uniformity of thinking; pleased by injustice when it is done by the State to immigrants, hungry school children, and the aged; and exclusion when it keeps women and people of color “in their places” and the press on a short leash.

Fittingly, the GOP, which in Iowa best represents the interests of people who can write six-figure checks for the Governor’s re-election, seeks to rob rising generations of Iowans of the main benefits of higher education, i.e. the broadening of their minds and maturing of their intellects through being confronted by competing theories and philosophies. The GOP right-wingers, those in the ascendancy, seek to model future state university graduates after themselves. This is the ultimate in self-worship and self-glorification. Their President-elect would be so proud.

Perhaps, we should engrave our motto on all future Iowa license plates, “See Iowa the Land of Uniformity, Injustice, and Exclusion” and even put it on our Welcome Signs at the borders: “Have Your Intellects Narrowed While you Visit Sunny Iowa.” Truth in politics would demand nothing less.

Bill Wines

Marion