This is what I was talking about when I said that moving the Overton window even slightly left would expose conservatism for how horrific it is. Arguing against bureaucratic liberalism is easy, and it is easy to mold that conversation in a way that makes the conservative sound like the voice of the “everyman.” Arguing against providing healthcare and education to people is extremely difficult, and will basically force conservatives to admit that they dont actually care about people at all.
This is the FUCK TRUMP fairy god mother, ,,good luck and tidings will come to you but only if you comment FUCK TRUMP
Okay but you’re missing this best part! This is the Texas woman,
Karen Fonseca, who was threatened by the local Sheriff, Troy Nehls, that she could be arrested for this bumper sticker. She responded with a bumper sticker that read, “Fuck Sheriff
Troy Nehls
and Fuck you for voting for him”. Meanwhile, the “Fuck Trump” sticker sales in the county where she lives have sky rocketed. Please just read the whole story. x
“We don’t have job protections and guarantees like they do in France. We have to schedule stuff on the weekends or our days off. If we called a general strike we’d all get fired. We have no guaranteed healthcare, so if we get fired we get no health insurance. You can see why the powers that be here in the US want to break unions, make healthcare rare, keep wages low, keep time off limited…”
-Kim Lewis
A good fucking question.
We are. See the Women’s March, the March for Science, the March for Our Lives, Pride Rallies and marches all across the country, March for Families…
I’d say that while it is true that activist energy has died down since 1/21/17, it’s still definitely present. It’s just not being covered by the MSM so even most Americans don’t know about it much less people abroad. Like I follow organizations like RAICES and the TX Civil Rights project on twitter and there’s an anti-ICE protest happening somewhere in the US every day since the family separation started. The MSM just does the whole “oh look a squirrel!” thing when it comes to issues instead of covering them in the long term.
Anything beyond that would require building the type of organizations that can keep people out on the streets for weeks from the ground up because Americans don’t have the sort of union infrastructure that is common in France. Most Americans are literally one or two paychecks away from being out on the streets and have nobody and nothing to back them up. In fact, I’m kind of concerned that like, say, if Mueller gets fired, the older, professional class and retired people who make up the majority of people who care quite a bit about Mueller being fired are going to try to nag everyone to go out into the streets for some type of sustained protest without providing any material support and they’ll end up looking out of touch
“Ever since World War II, white evangelicals in the United States have waged a desperate and largely failing war against thickening walls of separation between church and state, the removal of Christianity from public schools, the growing ethnic and religious diversity of the country, the intrusion of the federal government into their everyday lives (especially as it pertains to desegregation and civil rights), and legalized abortion. In the 1980s, Jerry Falwell Sr. and other conservative evangelicals concerned about this moral drift devised a political playbook to win back the culture and restore America to its supposedly Christian origins. It is a playbook that has too often led its followers toward nativism, xenophobia, racism, and intolerance. It is a playbook that divides rather than unites. The social and cultural changes of the Obama administration — particularly regarding human sexuality — sent conservative evangelicals into a state of panic. They saw Donald Trump as the GOP candidate best suited to protect them from the forces working to undermine the values of the world they once knew. But these anxieties extend even deeper into the American past. They are the logical result of 300 years — from the Puritans to the American Revolution, and from nativism to fundamentalism — of evangelical fears about the direction in which their “Christian nation” was moving. The politics of fear inevitably results in a quest for power. Clergymen and religious leaders have, at least since Billy Graham, regularly visited the White House to advise the president. Like members of the king’s court during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, who sought influence and worldly approval by flattering the monarch rather than prophetically speaking truth to power, Trump’s “court evangelicals” boast about their “unprecedented access” to the president and exalt him for his faith-friendly policies. Evangelical support for Donald Trump is also rooted in nostalgia for a bygone Christian golden age. Instead of doing the hard work necessary for engaging a more diverse society with the claims of Christian orthodoxy, evangelicals are intellectually lazy, preferring to respond to cultural change by trying to reclaim a world that is rapidly disappearing and has little chance of ever coming back.”
“PSA for NC registered voters: This is shared from a Wake County voter. I knew that was starting to happen in other states, but this is the first time I’ve realized it was happening here in NC.
In some counties, voter rolls are being purged, even if you have recently voted and haven’t moved or done anything differently. In many places the way you don’t get removed from registered voter rolls is they send you a postcard or a letter asking you to confirm your personal information and if you don’t get the notice or don’t realize what it is, you could be denied your right to vote the next time you try. (See attached photo, of one such notices, this one sent to the wife of the current Governor of NC.) If you value your voting rights, watch your mail.”
“NC folks – this comes straight from our First Lady, Kristin Cooper:
North Carolina peeps: Keep your eye out for this bit of mail.
It is NOT a scam.
It tells me that despite voting in every election since I was 18, including the one 20 months ago, I will be dropped from the voter rolls if I don’t return this postcard. Lots of people were surprised to find out they were mysteriously unregistered in the last election.
If, like me, you treat snail mail like poison ivy, and are distrustful of sending your personal information to people you don’t know……TOUGH!
I’m sending mine in tomorrow. It is postage paid, at least.”
This doesnt just happen in NC. Watch your mail everywhere!
The answer isn’t “culture of poverty” “low morals” or “poor people just don’t care about education”
here we go:
Low-income children are more likely than their higher-income peers to be in factory-like classrooms that allow little interaction and physical movement. As a result, these children spend more time sitting, following directions and listening rather than discussing, debating, solving problems and sharing ideas.
As a teacher I hear so much about how “these parents” don’t care about learning and their children’s education. There is palatable frustration at how we can’t “deal with” the students we work with.
But there is little to be said about how our public school systems are not equipped to provide students with valuable learning experiences. Instead we are continually told we need to do more with less.
Number 1 problem: we build schools in the hood designed to control instead of teach.
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