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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all the republicans bashing on this forum (of which most is well deserved), why are Democrats so stupid? Do they want us to lose to the republicans? It seems that we are handing them a fat W with all this insanely progressive BS that most of us don’t want. [/quote]

It's about power.   Many progressive politicians are capitalizing on the movement to be seen as anti-racist, gender inclusive, etc.  But they are doing it to further their own careers, rather than to truly help the people they talk about.

And we feel good about that.   It feels much better to vote for the antiracist than the anti-everything on the right.  We are all on the correct side of history, right?

Except they make everything worse with rapid and horrific policy.   Rather than sit down with experts, and methodically work through the nuts and bolts of good changes.  Good change takes longer, but nobody has the patience for that anymore. [/quote]

This. Same with education policy reform as well.[/quote]

How? What education policy reforms are happening that are like this?[/quote]

Let’s see. Progressive education policy is as hamfisted as progressive criminal justice policy, just in different ways. It’s all about style and less about substance.

Ending gifted and talented classes and ap classes and placing remedial learners with advanced learners out of “fairness”. This only harms the most advanced students who will one day be our engineers.

Ending neutral testing for entrance to schools like TJ. Don’t even get me started on this, but I guess taking the top 10% from other schools is how it is supposed to work now…we’ll see in the long run if those students who normally couldn’t pass an entrance exam for entrance can thrive or whether the school has to bend and water down its curriculum to accommodate these students.

Or how “the right answer” to a math equation is not as important as how you show your work. I guess I just a lot of progressive policy as making things easier in order to get better statistical outcomes. Even if these stats mean things are actually getting better and communities are any safer or on a macro level if students in America are getting smarter.[/quote]

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