Esau Democrats

Selling their birthright for NEA contributions | Marvin Olasky

It might surprise some world readers to know how fond I am of the Democratic Party. My favorite 19th-century presidents, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland, were Democrats. My favorite historian of the early 20th century, Claude Bowers, was a Democrat. Those within the "party of the common man" used to orate against special interests and mean it.

How the mighty have fallen! Contributions from the National Education Association, the powerful union that lobbies to protect public-school teaching jobs, seem to be keeping many Democrats from backing what many of their common-man constituents, both black and white, want. One recent poll by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a leading black think tank in Washington, showed nearly 60 percent of blacks (up 10 percent over the past year) favoring government-funded tuition vouchers to help pay for private education. Blacks aged 26 to 35 showed an 86 percent approval rate.

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