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el gato malo's avatar

that seems like the lazy edge lordy argument of a guy who wants to profess ideological purity but accomplish nothing (and thereby not have to do any work)

it's easy to demand the perfect to which others will not accede.

doing the work to move the overton window of what is possible so that we might get there eventually is harder, but has the advantage of actually being possible.

yours is the attitude that consigns one to be a heckler in the audience instead of player in the game.

that seems a poor pretext for self-congratulation.

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steve griffin's avatar

Carter broke education when he created Dept of Education. Gotta shut it down first so everybody knows we are serious. Unless their only job is to divy out $$ to parents to send kids to schools of their choice.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

except you are being presumptuous in what i may actually be doing, yes? everything starts with getting ones own house in order, and i am acutely aware on the local level what fuckery transpires at the school board level, and what is being done to combat that. so really check yourself there, because you have no idea the level of work being done here.

there is no self-congratulation here, it's just that you don't like my take because it's so much more than what you have proposed. i do get that incremental steps are vital here, and to that end it is as i wrote a local level endeavor, but seeing the big picture and working toward that is equally as important.

again, i'd say to you study how this nation was conceived and you will better understand how to implement real change with a clear vision of where we need to end up. but maybe you think ideological impurity, imperfection, and incremental half-measure steps is how the og patriots defeated the Brits?

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JohnnyB's avatar

There is a way, and it goes back to whence it all began and is historically supported. tasa.americanstatenationals.org

All of what you seem to describe and then some is here.

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