When the Mock Election Got *Too* Real

So instead of just allowing the Communist Party to win a fair election, they taught students that the system is rigged to prevent any party from running that might actually challenge the status quo.

Way to go teachers.

I feel like the administration should know enough about teenagers to realize how many would be happy to embrace a joke to annoy the teachers lol

We did a thing like this for our social studies class.

Only we ended up with blackmail and voting cartels. A bunch of students got together and agreed they would all vote the same way on everything (you passed if your bill passed and you failed if your bill failed) so they got together, told others to vote the same way. Then when it showed that it was working others got on board.

Then the teacher made us stop and gave everyone A’s because one girl (a straight A student) cried when her bill failed because she refused to play ball.

Moral of the story: communism is very appealing to 17 year olds in the public school system.This is not new knowledge but is worth remembering.

There’s hope in the future

“The issues are much too important for the school’s voters to be left to decide for themselves.”

-Principal Kissinger

The attractive point of communism is that everybody is treated equally and nobody has a class distinction. This made sense in a world when everybody had a reasonably equal level of skill in all things and our needs were basic.

Everybody could build houses. Everybody could farm. Everybody can be police officers (lynch mobs), etc. That’s all humans need in order to survive. The existence of classes is a violation of Communism, so if any class separation exists, it’s not Communism.

There are many things that naturally break the system:

* Big enough population that individuals no longer have an investment in the “community,” or “commune.”
* The “genius” class, who breaks it by very nature of existence. They can find the cracks in any system.
* Welfare, or other minimum guarantees of survival, which pulls incentive away from labor.
* Doctors who would probably prefer to dig ditches if they weren’t paid better wages for their work.
* A military’s very nature of existence is a violation of communism, not only because it’s a class, but because it protects leadership and therefore necessarily becomes dictatorship.
* The first person who is lucky enough to find something incredibly valuable and doesn’t share it.
* Large lotteries.
* Population collapse, or members with critical skills leaving the closed system.
* Organized crime, which naturally comes from the first two bullet points.

In a class room environment, not only are kids naturally edgy and find humor in anything that adults find offensive, but teachers may not be adequately equipped to manage the situation appropriately.

The correct response would be to start this experiment with two teachers.

You have teacher A) the communist teacher with all of the students and teacher B) the capitalist teacher with no students.

A says “okay, we’re Communist now. Great. Nobody is special, which means our grades are an average of everybody involved. Anybody who doesn’t like that can go to B and continue studies. I can’t stop you.”

You will immediately see a migration of the top 20% of students over to teacher B and the system breaks because now, A’s class average is low and **A must implement more strict rules to keep everybody productive enough to pass**.

Monroe Doctrine in the classroom.

or the DNC

My sister is a teach at a posh boys school in the UK. They get real politicians and aspiring party candidates in to speak. Year after the party that wins their fake election is……….. the last one to speak! Seriously.

Of course. It only appeals to the naive.

lol wait till those 17 year olds have to enter the real world

My buddies and I did the exact same thing in my politics class except there wasn’t an election. We prefaced the presentation with the teacher reading out our coup. We got an A and “won” and people were so pissed.

Is the school called Vietnam?

Ah yes, liberal democracy.

Should have let it go to completion and taught the kids that now they have to give up all their lunches to then be redistributed as rotten food a week later.

Communism baby!

Yeah, I’m sure if you told all high schoolers they could vote for anarchy or to never go to class they’d vote for those things too.

Which is why the voting age isn’t 17.