 A measure to require phonics to be taught to teach the kids to read? Because the teachers' union says we don't believe in top-down educational mandates, which is just obscene and obscenely dishonest. Anyway, so Lonsdale goes on to say there's a war going on for a civilization. Meritocracy, equal justice, capitalism, functional institutions are all under siege. I don't think that's hyperbolic at all.