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.

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."

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.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Stupid, even though it has been two years Covid is still a temporary issue and mask mandates are not a hill to die on. Mandates were always going to end it is just a matter of people agreeing on what safety metrics should be used.

Politicians are temporary too...

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Stupid, even though it has been two years Covid is still a temporary issue and mask mandates are not a hill to die on. Mandates were always going to end it is just a matter of people agreeing on what safety metrics should be used.

So far I don't like any Ds idea of it - the plan proposed by FCPS was using metrics created before the vaccine. Those metrics should be updated for 2022.

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.

Stupid, even though it has been two years Covid is still a temporary issue and mask mandates are not a hill to die on. Mandates were always going to end it is just a matter of people agreeing on what safety metrics should be used.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher
My first graders are just fine
They don’t mind the masks

It is the parents
Who seem to be the problem
As per usual

Wow. Your one child is representative of all the children in our state.

Indeed, it is the parents who seem to be the problem, as per usual.

First GRADERS plural
Reading is fundamental
Try to do better

Touche

However, your one class is still not representative of VA.

I apologize
I am not the teacher here
Should have said DP

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher
My first graders are just fine
They don’t mind the masks

It is the parents
Who seem to be the problem
As per usual

Wow. Your one child is representative of all the children in our state.

Indeed, it is the parents who seem to be the problem, as per usual.

First GRADERS plural
Reading is fundamental
Try to do better

Touche

However, your one class is still not representative of VA.

OP the best cure is to contribute to efforts to primary those Dems who have thrown in their lot with Youngkin. You don’t leave, you make these turncoats leave.

Anonymous wrote:I think the responses to this thread are a case study in why Youngkin won.

Five seven five rule
It is poetry for all
Trumpers can do it

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher
My first graders are just fine
They don’t mind the masks

It is the parents
Who seem to be the problem
As per usual

I have a first grader and I’m a former teacher too. I see the 6-7 year olds wear masks. You’re detached from reality if you don’t notice first grade students wearing them incorrectly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher
My first graders are just fine
They don’t mind the masks

It is the parents
Who seem to be the problem
As per usual

Wow. Your one child is representative of all the children in our state.

Indeed, it is the parents who seem to be the problem, as per usual.

First GRADERS plural
Reading is fundamental
Try to do better

I think the responses to this thread are a case study in why Youngkin won.

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher
My first graders are just fine
They don’t mind the masks

It is the parents
Who seem to be the problem
As per usual

Wow. Your one child is representative of all the children in our state.

Indeed, it is the parents who seem to be the problem, as per usual.

Started as lame thread
Has now made my morning fun
Thank you troll op