Loudoun County s vicious mediocrities – The Spectator World
Yet in spite of parental backlash, mediocrities like Scott Ziegler are remarkably adept at self-preservation. As Loudoun County slouches toward anarcho-tyranny, the smug administrators at its helm have been insulated from accountability by the same bureaucratic system that enables them to wield power. Ziegler, for example, blamed his failure to respond to the assault on the processes and procedures in place which existed prior to my tenure, before congratulating himself for the nebulous achievement of taking steps to make sure that this process is improved. The central problem was that our administrative procedures have not kept pace with the growth we have seen in our county, he explained in his recent press conference.
That this is entirely unconvincing is of little concern to the bureaucrats who run LCPS. They don t owe their constituents anything; they deserve to rule. That s why local parents have been subjected to months of bullying and intimidation from members of the Loudoun County School Board. It s why gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe infamously argued that parents [shouldn t] be telling schools what they should teach and Attorney General Merrick Garland weaponized the Justice Department against parents protesting CRT.
For all the talk of democracy, the progressive ruling class seems remarkably uneasy with the subjects of democracy themselves namely, the people. One is reminded of a remark from Father Zosima, a character in Dostoyevsky s The Brothers Karamazov: The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.