VA Ds who support mask optional in schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SF, hardly a bastion of right wing or even moderate politics, gave a resounding answer to this last night. Not to mention the Super Bowl crowd made up of maskless politicians who implemented the mandates to begin with. Masks aren’t political anymore.

Yeah - I did like what SF did. I guess things are changing. Part of me thinks I need to stay in the D party to keep it from going too crazy left.

Ship has sailed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, we’re you really ever a D?

Because masks will be optional soon, give it some time. Meanwhile, see PP above. Democracy dying and all that..

Yea, voting by people holding viewpoints you disagree with = democracy dying.

How ironic.

Remember the coup?
But Of course you don’t
You were watching OAN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. To anyone who feels like me - it turns out we are not alone and I agree with a lot in this Op-Ed.

I reject both parties’ ideas of Americanism. And I’m not the only one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/15/both-parties-extreme-ideas-repel-center-matt-bai/

"The more people grow disgusted with extremist party politics, the more only those extremists are heard and the more power they exert on anyone who wants to run for higher office."

"One is worse than the other. But that doesn’t mean we have to feel jazzed about supporting a party that would grade our worthiness as people on a sliding scale of identity. It doesn’t change the fact that the broad center of the American electorate — traditional conservatives and liberals both — no longer has a political home.

So where do we go?

For years, I’ve predicted the eventual triumph of an independent president, outside the two-party system. That candidate hasn’t emerged, but the lane for a credible independent has never been wider.

There’s also the probability that some reformist Democratic governor or political novice is looking at the political landscape and thinking that, if you could unify that liberal constituency inside the party, you might just be able to commandeer it.

I’ve never been very good at predicting the path ahead. What I do know is that politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum — and, one way or another, a force will arise to fill the space at the eye of our destructive political storm.

Until then, you can call me a dissenter."

Dems have a big tent
You’d know this if you were real
Troll some more baby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. To anyone who feels like me - it turns out we are not alone and I agree with a lot in this Op-Ed.

I reject both parties’ ideas of Americanism. And I’m not the only one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/15/both-parties-extreme-ideas-repel-center-matt-bai/

"The more people grow disgusted with extremist party politics, the more only those extremists are heard and the more power they exert on anyone who wants to run for higher office."

"One is worse than the other. But that doesn’t mean we have to feel jazzed about supporting a party that would grade our worthiness as people on a sliding scale of identity. It doesn’t change the fact that the broad center of the American electorate — traditional conservatives and liberals both — no longer has a political home.

So where do we go?

For years, I’ve predicted the eventual triumph of an independent president, outside the two-party system. That candidate hasn’t emerged, but the lane for a credible independent has never been wider.

There’s also the probability that some reformist Democratic governor or political novice is looking at the political landscape and thinking that, if you could unify that liberal constituency inside the party, you might just be able to commandeer it.

I’ve never been very good at predicting the path ahead. What I do know is that politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum — and, one way or another, a force will arise to fill the space at the eye of our destructive political storm.

Until then, you can call me a dissenter."

Dems have a big tent
You’d know this if you were real
Troll some more baby

I normally don't frequent the political discussion board - but now I see why - you all are the trolls here.

[Anonymous]

Don’t cast dispersions
Much thought was put into these
Just keeping it light

[Anonymous]

I still think this is a ridiculous, short sighted law. I get that we are all frustrated and tired of masking, but allowing opt outs during a local emergency is just a recipe for disaster.

[Anonymous]

So, just because you are tired of masking, you will vote for party that will take women back 50 years, whitewash history, allow mentally ill people to own whatever gun they please AND overturn elections they don't like.

Seems like a great choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love being a one issue voter
And masks is the hill I shall
Kill democracy on


Not quite a haiku, but it’s poetic.

It affects my kids every day. Can you name another issue that does? No abortion or guns right now. I also support how northam ended the death penalty and de criminalized marijuana but again those issues also don’t impact my kids daily either.

Well if your kids kill people, they won't be killed by the state and wile away their time in jail smoking pot. Both could have a big impact on your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, just because you are tired of masking, you will vote for party that will take women back 50 years, whitewash history, allow mentally ill people to own whatever gun they please AND overturn elections they don't like.

Seems like a great choice.

What is the other option? I think the Ds have jumped the shark on masking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love being a one issue voter
And masks is the hill I shall
Kill democracy on


Not quite a haiku, but it’s poetic.

It affects my kids every day. Can you name another issue that does? No abortion or guns right now. I also support how northam ended the death penalty and de criminalized marijuana but again those issues also don’t impact my kids daily either.

Well if your kids kill people, they won't be killed by the state and wile away their time in jail smoking pot. Both could have a big impact on your kids.

Unlikely though. This is all about realistic risks - and I don't think the masks in schools supports realistic risks in an era when if you're concerned - you can get vaxxed / boosted / and wear a KN95 mask if you're worried. It's about controlling other people. Which usually I see as the realm of the Rs - but here the Ds are engaging in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, just because you are tired of masking, you will vote for party that will take women back 50 years, whitewash history, allow mentally ill people to own whatever gun they please AND overturn elections they don't like.

Seems like a great choice.

What is the other option? I think the Ds have jumped the shark on masking.

Pardon me? Because they’re waiting to loosen restrictions until transmission rates are moderate? That’s jumping the shark?

[Anonymous]

Need a DNC?
That’s too bad for you
Die of septicemia

OP hates masks
Even when they make sense
So she votes fascist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are historically a D in VA who supports mask optional in schools - are we even still Ds?? I’m disappointed that my local delegate and state senator voted against masks optional. I don’t even know if I am D anymore. Does it not matter because we don’t have to register by party? It’s like an identity crisis.

I pro choice and anti gun. So I feel like I have no political home anymore.

"If I pretend to be a tree in the forest, will other trees fall over when I do? Trees and democrats are like lemmings, apparently, and I can control them on the internets."
--a translation of the OP's post, provided for the dimwitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, just because you are tired of masking, you will vote for party that will take women back 50 years, whitewash history, allow mentally ill people to own whatever gun they please AND overturn elections they don't like.

Seems like a great choice.

What is the other option? I think the Ds have jumped the shark on masking.

Pardon me? Because they’re waiting to loosen restrictions until transmission rates are moderate? That’s jumping the shark?

If you don't update the definition of moderate transmission for the advent of vaccines - yes, that is jumping the shark to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Need a DNC?
That’s too bad for you
Die of septicemia

OP hates masks
Even when they make sense
So she votes fascist

I think masks after two years for kids in school are a problem. I haven't yet voted fascist but you all are looney and I don't want to associate with your political party either. You are all too far the other direction. I was looking for normal people. I should have known I was looking in the wrong place. LOL.