{"id":5786,"date":"2009-10-02T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2009-10-02T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:36:08","slug":"conservatism-in-the-obama-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5786","title":{"rendered":"conservatism in the Obama administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalservice.gov\/about\/serveamerica\/rulemaking.asp\">rule <\/a>published recently by the Federal Corporation for National and Community Service:<\/p>\n<ul>(f) <em>Civic engagement programs.<\/em> A State, Indian Tribe, Territory or qualified organization may use funds to support service-learning civic engagement programs that promote a better understanding of:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The principles of the Constitution, the heroes of United States history (including military history), and the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance;<\/p>\n<p>(2) How the Nation\u2019s government functions; and<\/p>\n<p>(3) The importance of service in the Nation\u2019s character.<\/ul>\n<p>The Corporation has been bitterly criticized for allegedly brainwashing young people to be supporters of President Obama&#8217;s radical socialist agenda. But this rule couldn&#8217;t be much more conservative. It would be a balanced policy, in my view, if it supported education on &#8220;heroes&#8221; and &#8220;military history&#8221; <em>and <\/em> on social movements and concepts of justice; or if it stressed the &#8220;importance of service&#8221; and the importance of social reforms and governmental programs. But it is almost entirely in the rightward side.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see that Corporation funds will be used for civic education. I think that the projects supported under this provision may be valuable. I&#8217;m only supportive, however, because I am personally open to relatively conservative approaches to civics. From a political perspective, I think it&#8217;s noteworthy that the Obama Administration would publish such a conservative rule. The people who should be mad about the president&#8217;s service agenda are not conservatives, but liberals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in the following rule published recently by the Federal Corporation for National and Community Service: (f) Civic engagement programs. A State, Indian Tribe, Territory or qualified organization may use funds to support service-learning civic engagement programs that promote a better understanding of: (1) The principles of the Constitution, the heroes of United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}