In our public education, we can clearly see the difference between the Republican and the Democratic parties.

The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado, where Democrats have the majority, has forced President Mark Kennedy to resign over his comparison of the possible leaving of the university by students if the university did not handle the virus right to “The Trail of Tears” — for which he had apologized.

The board’s action came in spite of the president’s having achieved much more diversity at CU.

The board endorsed the censuring of the president by the faculty assembly, which was not generally elected, is not a body of public government, and therefore is a private group.

In 37 of Colorado’s larger public school districts, the liberal school board has bargained away the authority of the people to a teachers’ union, which is a nonelected private corporation. Having lost the authority of the people, school principals have been turned from the leader into a passive evaluator of teachers. Disorder ensues in the school, and teachers turn to the private corporation union for protection, paying its dues of nearly $1,000 per year.

Teachers unions and faculty assemblies at our public universities are at the core of today’s Democratic Party. The 37 Colorado school boards and the CU Board of Regents exemplify the basic position in public education of the Democratic Party: that the authority of the people should be subordinated to the party’s favored private group.

This subordination of the people to the party’s favored private group opens the door for instruction on “Critical Race Theory,” “White Privilege” and “The 1619 Project,” each of which deny the purpose of the United States.

The bargaining away or the subordination of the authority of the people over our bodies of public government means the loss to each of us citizens of our foundational American civil right to participate as equal individuals in our public government.

Joe Biden’s Democratic Party seeks to legislate the bargaining away of the authority of the people over all levels and branches of public government in our country to private corporation employee unions.

In contrast, the Republican Party stands for Abraham Lincoln’s public government that is “by the people and for the people,” so that public government “by the consent of the governed” will be preserved in our state and in our country for us today and for future generations of Americans.

James Sayler

Colorado Springs