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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I consider myself a Democrat. I have no idea what anti-woke means, but here is my problem with politics today. Anyone who does not agree with a democratic policy gets shot down as immoral. For example if you disagree with the party line, it must be because you are evil, selfish, or stupid. If there is some proposed policy intended to help people, but there might be unintended consequences that actually hurt people, nobody wants to hear about it. This is a dangerous trend for society. Almost as dangerous or perhaps equally dangerous as what is going on within the Republican Party. I do not want my kids to be taught politics as though it were religion. I would love to find a moderate environment where critical thinking and questioning is encouraged on all sides.[/quote]

Sorry, no, it's not "equally dangerous". Democrats are not historically this lockstep (does anyone remember any political history before 2016? Joe Lieberman and Blue Dog democrats anyone? Sheesh). IMO dems have circled the wagons in recent years as a unified defense against Trump/Trumpism/anti-democratic right. And it has been reasonably effective as a defense of our shared, lower-case-d democratic principles. That is the clear and present danger to our country, as evidenced by Jan 6. Not intolerance to nuanced/more moderate views of specific dem party policies. [/quote]

Anyone who doesn’t believe a party of the people can be dangerous needs to read about socialist uprisings and dictatorships in other countries. My family actually escaped from one. Some of my family members were executed for holding incorrect political and moral  opinions. US Democrats are not as bad as the Republicans yet, as the Jan 6 nuts demonstrate, but I can definitely see the potential for disaster if polarization continues to the extreme. [/quote]

I'm the PP. Any party "can be" dangerous. Where did I say anywhere above that a party is not capable of being dangerous? It's an order of magnitude and anybody that equates what is happening right now with the Democratic Party and what's happening with the Republican Party in this country is...I don't know what. Trying to be contrarian? Because you can't be serious. Please identify an elected Democratic politician, or even a Democratic party nominee in a major state or national race, that is so intolerant of moderate Democrats as to be "dangerous". Now try the same thing with the Republican Party. Do you see the difference?  [/quote]

PP again. I recognize the above debate is not on-topic, so to actually respond to OP's question, assuming it's coming from a good faith desire to find a school whose curriculum doesn't bend to the slightest breeze: another recommendation for an Episcopal or Catholic school. [/quote]

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