Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about

On 29 Jun 2024 18:07:58 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:38:38 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

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There are no sane Republicans, nor uncorrupt.=20

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That's unduly pessimistic.
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They are just local and so unknown to outsiders.
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I will, however, concede that they are getting harder to find.

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Again true a decade ago, but at least in our local party the sane people
are being driven out.  We have folks running for city council who are
obsessed with stopping abortion and promoting what they claim to be
Christian values.  One of the big deals is promotion of school vouchers,
which are likely of real benefit in some urban areas but which here are
primarily used to fund de-facto school segregation.  So many of the
small-government pro-business Republicans are no longer active in the
local party.

Our wide-open primary (anybody can claim any party they want to), at
least some time back, included not just "Republican", but "Old
Republican" (ie, pre-Trump), "G.O.P" (also non-Trump) and so on. The
actual political parties have nothing to say about this (in the
primary).

They also regularly include people who believe that "Mayor of Seattle"
means that they set National policy on various issues. I don't vote
for such persons, as they clearly have no idea what the job they are
running for is, and so are unlikely to be good at it.

As to de-facto school segregation: "white flight" (from the Public
Schools) has been for decades and continues to be a well-known
phenomenon. A lot of the attacks on Public Schools are because they
let "them" in and, worse, mix "them" with "us".

I wonder if the groups running the "white flight" schools realize
that, if a certain Supreme Court justice gets his way, Brown v BoE
will fall and their entire reason for existing will vanish in puff of
legaleeze.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"