Funny how the same loons that demand better police don’t apply the same metric, eh ? More money for better training = better police. But I digress.
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Exactly my point.
What “systems,” specifically ? Funny… The same 3 rules that essentially guarantee one won’t live in “poverty” are color blind. No one can seem to really quantify or identify these alleged oppressive systems.
At this point we just have to accept that there are people that refuse to consider the free will choices that people that tend to stay in a lower economic class are exactly what keeps them there and not some sYsTeMiC bullshit
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Any assertion that either party has our best interests in mind is absurd in my book. Politicians uphold the interests of whoever pays them the most and keeps them in office as long as possible.
Not at all. All sorts of people at all different levels of the economic spectrum don’t GAF about all sorts of other people.
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Minorities do attend successful schools. And school choice really benefits middle class families more than poor. It’s a phony argument that the people who originally came up with the idea didn’t believe. It’s a scam.
Can you show me evidence that poor people aren’t helped by school choice? I’ve worked at some of the best charter schools in the nation. The VAST majority of our students were children of undocumented farmworkers. Every one of them has been accepted to college for 15 consecutive years.
Take the entire school population of Baltimore, where will they all go? Individual students can be helped by school choice but larger populations of students aren’t. In other words, it’s not a cure for underachieving schools. Magnet schools can only take so many. Suburban schools, if they take any, can only take so many.
Allowing school choice, charter schools, and vouchers for private schooling all help poor students. Of course, it isn’t going to solve the ENTIRE problem, but it comes closer than anything else. Throwing money at the problem certainly hasn’t helped. The charter schools I worked at spent 70% per student what an average state school spent with MUCH better outcomes.
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It helps poor students who are able to take advantage of them. Most won’t be able to. Will a voucher cover the entire cost of private schooling? Middleclass families can make up the difference, not poor ones.
School choice is free. Charter schools are free. Magnet schools are free. Again, it won’t help EVERYONE, but it’s hell of a lot better than throwing more money at failed schools.
Stupidity is our biggest threat. We just had a gathering of people invade the US capital in an attempt to subvert the results of an election. Not based on logic or reason, but because they believed the words of a career conman. When someone can say if I lose the election it will be because it’s fixed and that eventually leads you to invade the capitol building of a country we’ve got bigger issues than white supremacy. When over half of the people in a major US party believe an election was stolen simply based on the words of one man then we’ve got issues that are bigger than white supremacy.
The idea that after pressuring election officials, various state government heads, the justice department, and a host of others to change the results of said election that person could still be the favorite to win a primary for president? By a major political party? Yeah that’s the biggest problem right there.
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There really are no failing schools but schools in failed communities. That’s why school choice is a scam. It can’t help most, let alone many, of the kids in failing communities. A good school can only take so many before it risks becoming the school the kids are coming from.
If every school in Baltimore was a charter school, all the charter schools would get the same results they are getting now. School choice is a way to avoid fixing the root problems.
So how do you fix these failed communities if you don’t begin with education?
How has that been working so far? These communities have had free education for decades.
I know teachers who have taught in the same town for years and they say how things went downhill in the town, as well as the schools, as the demographic changed. I know of one school where over half the students are special ed.
You want to fix these communities? Evict everyone and disperse them all over the country.
Can we pull the “93 %” peaceful routine ? Asking for a friend. And I agree completely. We also have an issue with moral and intellectual inconsistency. At least some of the “insurrectionists” are being held without bail in solitary though. So I hear.
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I think what happened was embarrassing for the country but really, how bad was it? If you look at how many voted for Trump vs how many showed up in DC, it’s a tiny fraction. Trump, even if he instigated it, was unable to instigate an actual revolution/coup or anything close to it. What we see, if we open our eyes, is that the real change happens through voting. So the threat, such that it is, to America (and it’s coming from both sides) is that the fringe elements are getting power through elections. Whether you are a republican or democrat politician, you must bow down to the lunatics.
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Theoretically if one held a politically extreme belief (or multiple) you’d want reform/re-education on some scale
One of the most successful measures against Islamic extremism has been to refer said extremest to an Imam for a conversation regarding the interpretation of the Coran. Perhaps a similar notion could work for both far left and far right extremists who are at risk of, but have not committed violence/conspiracy yet.
Solitary confinement tends to be very damaging the the individual. Some never get over the mental anguish associated with months long bouts of solitary captivity, so it’s not something I’d haphazardly recommend unless you are SURE this individual is to be kept locked away forever.
Take the most extreme of the extreme left wing. Perhaps a member of Antifa who fluidly identifies as a telephone, a dolphin and a fire extinguisher. This individual is caught assaulting another at knifepoint because the individual at hand refused to call Isreal an apartheid state AND states being born white doesn’t equate to being born with satan embedded within your soul (UNACCEPTABLE). Said Antifa individual is sentenced to four years in prison, in prison he spends bouts in solitary for his weird behaviour.
There is no emphasis on reform/behavioural correction or psychiatric assessment, just punishment. He leaves prison even more hate filled and dogmatic about his/her/it’s beliefs.
Then the biggest threat to democracy would theoretically be rigged voting (which both the left and the right are claiming is a problem)
To be fair… the other half also believe the election was rigged in 2016 (there is proof of interference through Vladmir Putin, but no “electoral rigging” though). The “rigged election” story has been pushed by both sides since 2016.
A HUGE problem is that both sides are becoming more dogmatic about their beliefs, more extreme and less corporative with one another. Sometimes it takes an outsider to point this out when those too close to the situation at hand are SO blinded by personal vendettas.
There is such a string of divisiveness going on over left/right wing at the moment, not particularly only confined to the USA. The right think the left are evil, no good degenerates. The left think the right are equitable to the re-incarnation of Hitler/White supremacists because white people are all born evil, privileged and racist…
I’m using extremes to highlight the absurdity of the situation, any many on here (not using names) aren’t doing anyone any favours by feeding this machine of hysteria. By adhering to extremes and dogmatic beliefs you further feed and encourage the opposite side of the feud to further disassociate and deviate towards more extreme credences.
You don’t need to be peaceful towards violent lunatics, but perhaps it would be conducive to sit down and have a calibrated conversation with someone who harbours opposing political ideology to that of yourself. My brother does this all the time and has actually managed to alter the mindsets of some VERY hateful people (neo-nazi subtypes and whatnot). Some people are beyond reform, others are merely misinformed or filled with hate through anecdote.
Many only associate with those who circle jerk each others extremist beliefs/thrive off one anothers bullshit. We need to change this
No, it’s a threat to the parties. People can still vote for whomever they want.
Wouldn’t it be a threat to democracy if votes towards one party were thrown out? As there would be no due process or fair game associated with voting.
What if measures were taken to try assure the demographics that associate with a given party were unable to vote? What if they were arrested for doing so? Hence I do believe lack of access to voting or rigged voting is a HUGE threat to democracy.
On the whole I don’t believe the two are comparable. One was a belief that the election was effected by Russian interference which was backed up by intelligence agencies saying the Russians interfered. But more important the number of Democrats actively doing something about this I believe was quite low. It was pretty well accepted shortly after the election that Trump won and he may have benefited from Russian interference. Russian interference was accepted fact and it was bipartisan acknowledgement. What wasn’t known was if it really had an impact or Trump had done anything nefarious. Hence the calls for investigation.
On the other hand you had nothing but conspiracy theories to say it was rigged and it culminated in domestic terrorists attempting to kidnap lawmakers. I mean you had Republicans suing other states because they didn’t like the results those states had and an actual President using his power to try to overturn an election.
I think Democrats had sour grapes and sure some of them probably thought they got screwed and all of that. To say the months after 2016 were the same as the months after 2020 though in terms of reactions to the results are not even remotely close. Clinton conceded almost immediately.
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