This is a good insider look at the GOP crackup. It is a good read by Martin Longman of the Washington Monthly.
The party has no good choices. Neither Rubio nor Cruz will back off. Trump will run away with the nomination, despite the fact that party leaders see him as an internal tapeworm who will ruin the party.
I don’t think any of the three top GOP choices is qualified to be president. They are extreme in their views; not a moderate among them. Not a one who can work with the other party to solve problems.
Say this for the Democrats: Both Hillary and Bernie are qualified to assume the presidency. Both have experience, and both are intelligent and thoughtful.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
If they all stay in–and they will– then Donald might not make it on first ballot, in which case all bets are off.
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Agreed!!! In spades.
The Republican candidates? If that is the best that party can do????
AND so many follow the party line no matter what.
Note what Trump has said and done and the following he has.
Of course this country voted in George W. Nuff sed!!!!
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And the Raygun twice. Ay ay ay!
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Hang in there Duane. Expect good things. :-). BTW. Have you seen any of my comments in your e mail? Not sure they are getting through
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No, I haven’t seen any. I’ve been away from the internet for 5-6 days at a time more than a few times in the last two months (mainly camping and fishing as winter is my preferred time to do such things, few bugs and usually fewer people-ha ha, but I also drove up to Philly for the Opt Out Conference) and when I get back I have a tendency to quickly delete all those emails I don’t think I’ll be reading. But if I wouldn’t have deleted it if I saw it was from you.
Send me another in the next few days with something like, hey it’s caplee68 in the subject line. dswacker@centurytel.net
Take care!
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These would be my responses to Diane’s blog in your e mails. Like this one, it’s Cap Lee
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I don’t have it set up so that I get notification by email on responses, so no I haven’t been getting them. Usually, but not always the responses show up on the message button for wordpress in the line at the top of the display of Diane’s blog. I got this one but again I’ve found that not all of them show up.
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Thanks
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I get many on my e mail but never mine. Just seems strange
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I don’t attempt to understand the inner workings of the internet!!
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I can’t believe anyone would think Hillary should be president. She’s qualified because she’s an arrogant, opportunistic liar like most of the rest of them. She does like all the rest and says whatever sells.
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When you say “liar” enough, people believe it. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html?_r=0 Truth?
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Diane, I disagree. Hillary’s carelessness with classified information disqualifies her from being President, in my opinion. I used to work in the intelligence community and would be in prison if I had done a fraction of what she has been alleged to have done.
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I understand the GOP talking points but the American way is innocent until proven guilty. Not only is there no guilt proven, up till now there is no hint of anything. So when every ney Sayer releases all their e mails and texts, I doubt that you will come out as clean as Hillary
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What are the allegations exactly? How many HAVE gone to jail for misclassifying information? Did Petraeus go to jail? Hyperbole seems far too common this election.
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I also think that Clinton is not qualified. Lying about the Bengazi incident [a celebration; then because of a movie; never the real reason – an act of terror] and then covering it up, even until today – long after Congressional hearings have proven the lie – along with all of the e-mails that were not classified, then were, then there were more that weren’t, then they were classified, all based upon her say so, prove her to be untrustworthy and so not presidential.
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Don’t believe talking points. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html?_r=0 Truth?
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Hillary, ” I never sent or received any material marked ‘classified’. She doesn’t
tell us that classified material is never marked ‘classified’.
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Another lie! And classified material is marked. Stop lying
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Another lie! Classified material is clearly marked. Quit making up stories
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I’d like to suggest, regarding the Hillary/State department emails, that readers of this blog see her as unqualified and dishonest (among many other reasons) because she privatized her correspondence as Secretary of State.
If she was so quick to turn her dealings as a public servant into private property, how do you thinbk she’ll come down regarding public education?
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Carelessness with classified information? NOT! Nothing was hacked. She did same as Rice and Powell; No indication that messages were marked classified at the time were sent or received; and yes they do mark messages classified; Server was secure as evidenced by nothing hacked; Hillary and Bernie tied as most honest be Politofact checkers; and on and on
Don’t take as fact GOP TALKING POINTS!
P.s. let me know if you receive this n your e mail
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Peggy Noonan has a great confessional on her misguided loyalty to the GOP in todays Wall Steet Journal.
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It took Peggy long enough to wake up, didn’t it? That party has been appealing to racists, xenophobes and religious bigots for decades,and Peggy, while working for Ronald Reagan, was complicit.
Is Hilary Clinton a perfect or ideal candidate? Not necessarily-but I would rather see her elected than anyone on the Republican side. I am thoroughly fed up with being vilified for being a liberal by the hate-filled supporters of Trump, Cruz and Rubio.
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Democrats need to go out and vote or the music will die for all of us!
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Yes. Complacency is not an option. I plan to vote for whoever the Democrats nominate.
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It is interesting watching the GOP crash and burn. By their own admittance, they lie. http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Polifact-evaluates-the-2016-White-House-6704779.php. Proof?
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Hillary is a crook, no better than Nixon, and I’m old enough to remember Nixon. She’s being investigated by the FBI, for goodness sakes. But just as NIxon was pardoned by Ford, Hillary has her cronies in Washington to keep her from getting indicted. Like Michelle Rhee, she’s too big to fail.
I have little doubt she’ll get the nomination. She’s too corrupt not to get the nomination, with all those super delegates who will undoubtedly be able to collect favors from her once she’s in the White House. Really, it doesn’t matter who we vote for. The results of the primaries have already been arranged. The older I get, the more it feels we are in some third world country where the political process is owned by a few people, and the common folk mistakenly believe that what they think and do matters.
I’ll continue to support Bernie. I’ll continue to cross my fingers and hope that by some miracle he’ll get the nomination. But the realist in me says that every Democrat in the nation could vote for him and Hillary would still get the nomination.
We can laugh all we want at the Republicans, but they are not the only ones who have a problem.
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Bernie still has a chance, unless Bloomberg gets in. Imagine: a brokered convention, with Romney or Kascitz(sp?) emerging victoious. On the other side, Bloomberg, Sanders, Clinton and Biden duking it out…The ring is getting very crowded!!!
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Hillary’s investigation was based on dirty tricks and the artificial Benghazi committee. I am old enough to remember 1972 when dirty tricks brought down Muskie, we got McGovern and therefore Nixon.
As far as lying? Try this: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Polifact-evaluates-the-2016-White-House-6704779.php Just sayin
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I like Bernie, too. But what are the charges against Hillary? Is it incompetence or actual corruption? Republicans seem to focus on Hillary as a liar. If we eliminate liars from DC, we’d empty out the district. If she used a personal server, many past and present public officials communicate outside official channels to avoid open records. Anybody can be investigated. We don’t indict unless there is evidence.
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Here’s the truth about liars. Fact checkers have Hillary and Bernie tied for most honest. Don’t believe. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html?_r=0 GOP liars
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“If we eliminate liars from DC, we’d empty out the district. ”
Well, actually, the Monica Lewinsky’s would still be left.
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The Democratic Party is no longer the party of FDR. It is now the party of Eli Broad. From what I see, Bernie wants to fight to get back his party. Hillary is in Broad’s pocket. There is no question of who would be the more honest president.
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As a former Republican, this is not surprising. The party elite have pushed the ideology of free markets, evil government, and theology-as-science upon the rank and file voters hoping their deference to authority and belief in loyalty above questioning would win elections. But now the grass root Republicans, those that file tax returns with EARNED income, are realizing the Republican leaders have lied and are frauds. The Republican ideology instead has resulted in job loss, income inequality, and eroding safety nets. Hell hath no fury.
Watching Ryan or Romney describe Trump as they themselves have acted is a surreal experience. Seeing Brooks in a panic trying to proselytize the conservatives ideals when those ideals have never been truly followed nor resulted in their promised results is pathetic. Watching Kasich try to play the “good guy” when he himself has acted like Trump in Ohio, only without the charisma and business savvy of Trump, is disgusting.
We could be seeing the birth of a new party. Republicans have artificially held power through voter suppression, gerrymandering, and dark money. Now, like tectonic plates, the strain must be released. Watching the party of hate and anger implode seems an event well overdue. What is astonishing is the utter surprise and inability of GOP party leaders to see this revolt as anything but inevitable. They have no one to blame but their own, self interested, misogynistic, sociopathic selves.
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Don’t forget what a zero that John Kasich is.
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It remains imposssible for the huge issues being fought in education to be given any attention whatsoever……I tried…the dishonest mistreatments of spedial needs children by goldman sachs in education….the history of the clintons and the broad family, as schools were and continue to be ruthlessly closed…….but the raw material is available, and it is the one area Bernie will not challenge her… this is the worst election choices we have had in my memory.
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To whom it may concern:
The best SOCIAL policy is that we should be honest in having a logical mindset and a critical analysis about the characteristics of being righteousness and rightfulness.
Being educators, all of veterans in the age of 70+, and 80 +, you are very wise, knowledgeable, and experienced in many QUALITY aspects from military, psychology, toxicology, medical, technology and food to EDUCATION.
Therefore, there are some retired experts of the above listed aspects who are willing to trade their HUMAN CONSCIENCE to gain a few “impermanent” millions dollars from greedy corporate in order to destroy the stabilized civilization in USA.
Time and knowledge to be either rich or expert, but cannot have both at the same time in one life. Rich will buy out conscience of experts. Expert can make money to be rich without human conscience.
Whoever supports master-slave living lifestyle, will endlessly lives in the miserable karma of greed, ego, and sufferance of war.
Whoever is responsible, self-discipline and willing to help the unfortunate within their own living lifestyle limitation, will forever live with harmony, peace, and grace of God.
Please educate and cultivate parents, inexperienced teachers and students the importance of human conscience in responsibility, and in helping the unfortunate which is the ultimate condition to build civilization, and peace on Earth.
No group on either righteousness or rightfulness should have any excuse on behalf of GOD or DEMOCRACY to create war, supply shortage, chaotic economy and sufferance to all sentient beings.
Life does not end in this present life, but life will forever evolve until whoever can break free from greed and ego and can detach the EXCESSIVE materialistic living needs. Every sentient being always has the same chance to be enlightened = true equality. Back2basic
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‘The guy is Hitler’: Louis C.K. begs fans not to vote for Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/03/05/the-guy-is-hitler-louis-c-k-begs-fans-not-to-vote-for-donald-trump/?tid=pm_pop_b
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Not very hopeful this election. I don’t like any of the candidates. I am not sure that Trump is like Hitler. But he sure talks like him. He is making similar promises and shows a propensity of racist ideology. Clinton is questionable. Both have stated that they are pro-school choice, I understand that as pro-privatization with no understanding of real educational issues in the classroom.
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I’m not sure if Trump is a Hitler either, but I’m pretty sure that’s what his supporters are looking for.
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We have a family friend who is a young republican (27) who spent 2 years working in DC after college. Last night he said the GOP is imploding…and good riddance. The young voters have the opportunity to change the world for the better. Here is hoping they are all paying attention, and vote.
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My friend’s nephew, who had originally gotten a university degree in banking and finance, was hired at a very seductive salary to work in his field. Only months later, he was so disillusioned that he quit, took up a second career in electronics, and is now pulling his parents to Bernie Sanders’ events. 🙂
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Everyone needs to vote and make their decision based on the issues they are concerned about. I know I am voting for Trump because when he said he was going to do something he did. He will also pick experts to do the jobs not like who we have running the government now.
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Like the “experts” that Trump used at Trump “University,” including one who was a convicted felon? http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-acknowledged-trump-university-flaws-depositions-37409059
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“Say this for the Democrats: Both Hillary and Bernie are qualified to assume the presidency. Both have experience, and both are intelligent and thoughtful.”
No, they are not. Hillary is a liar and corporatists, sucking hard and fast at the teat of Big Banskters and Wall Streeters for years. She just does it behind closed doors, and it takes not too much digging to find out how much milk money she has sucked from that teat.
She’s in the pocket of the very institutions and people who have crashed this country into the ground and hurt more than 200 million people from working class backgrounds. She and her husband’s policies have hurt blacks and factory workers.
Yes she is an excellent orator and intelligent woman, but she is morally bankrupt when it comes to the labor class.
Sorry, Charlie, but she is NOT material for the presidency. She has openly stated at a debate that a single payer healthcare system will NEVER happen and CAN never happen.
Really?
And her nasty piece of work, immune-to-cosmetic-procedural-results daughter is married to a guy who is a hedge fund manager (we ALL know how useful hedge fund managers ARE! Just ask charter schools!) and whose father (Chelsea’s father current father-in-law) was indicted for banking and investment fraud and found guilty on federal charges.
And Hillary is qualified to be President?
For who?
Us, or the 1%?
In the 60s, Sanders was marching down South and helping blacks to register and vote; in the same 60s, Hill-liar-y was heading up the young Republicans Club at Wellesley.
The Clinton branding and machinery is an outright fraud, and following the power will not work because no matter how much one follows and pledges allegiance to Hillary, she will turn right around and do the bidding of the overclass who has funded her campaign and contributed to her Clinton foundation over the last 16 years.
Lose the Cruz . . .
Dump the Trump . . .
Kill the campaign of Hill . . .
and Learn about Bern . . .
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It’s always amazing to watch people look at someone else, say how bad, wicked, evil, etc… that person is, then look back at their person and see all that is good in them. To say that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are qualified to assume the presidency is to say that 2 people who have been an integral part of a failed, corrupt system are qualified to perpetuate that system. I will not vote for either, and Hillary may even make me capable of voting for an establishment Republican. That’s how utterly unqualified she is to be the leader of this nation.
When this blog gets off of education issues, it becomes clear why public education has suffered so greatly at the hands of both Democrats and Republicans. Your ignorant blind loyalty to the Democrats hurts public education from both sides. The Democrats are indifferent to your concerns because you are a sure vote. The Republicans despise you because you blindly follow and SUPPORT the Democrats.
I understand that not all educators support the Democrats, but far too many, especially the unions, put their own political aspirations above the well being of the students. I also realize that you genuinely care about the students, but the D vs. R paradigm is just as invalid as the reform vs. status quo paradigm. You fail because you allow a false dichotomy to define you.
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Fl Teacher,
I am the first one to say that the Democrats have destroyed public education virtually as much as the GOP. Just look at Obama, and Duncan, to name a few. And DFER . . .
It’s not a contest.
I do not view Bernie as a Democrat, but I do view his voting record and principles to be sound and more in the context of modern, democratic, industrialized nations, two of which I personally have ties to and speak the languages there.
THIS country needs a redistribution of wealth, and the wealth needs to be spent on public infrastructure and social safety nets that will promote equal opportunity and egalitarianism, something that free market solutions alone will not do, and something trickle down economics has not yet addressed. We are becoming ever more polarized with money, and I wonder if millenials will be able to be home owners or go to college or retire with enough funds.
Both the Democrats and Republicans are rotten in my view, but Bernie is one of few sane and pure people, relatively speaking. This is no time to philosophize nearly as mush as it is time to take back our society and fight for the middle and working class. There is no dignity or universally functional mechanism that privatized health insurance systems will be able to carry on.
Taxes pay for a civilized society.
The working class are paying for the overclass . . . They have been for about 33 years . . .
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I love Bernie but he has over promised. No Congress will pay for free college. A Dem Congress barely allowed ACA. And everyone wants economic justice. However, we are not voting for King or queen. Of over 200 bills sponsored by Bernie, only 3 got through. And 2 were names of post offices.
If you can’t work the system, nothing will get through.
Secondly, this is a replay of 1972 when GOP dirty tricks were played on Muskie but not on McGovern. I voted for MvGovern which got us Nixon.
GOP have bashed Hillary forever and haven’t touched Bernie. If nominated Bernie’s middle name will become Socialist Communist. And he will be carved a new one and like McGovern, also a good guy, he will be pummeled
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FL Teacher,
I am as disappointed in the Democrats as you are. But the Republicans are ready to abandon public education completely. Next November it will be a choice between one of the two Dems and a rightwing ideologue. The choice is stark.
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Robert, you identify the right problems, but Senator Sander’s solutions are terrible. I do not want government run health care because the government can’t make health decisions for me or the people I love. Nor can insurance companies, but we can do away with everyday health insurance. We don’t need to replace the insurance companies in this market. We need to outlaw them. Catastrophic health insurance is the only necessary health insurance. We already provide health care to the poor. if we want to do it more intentionally, I’m fine with that. However, the poor will not be well served by a government run system. If they were well served, people, who could afford it, would pay for that service – not likely to happen.
Taxing the heck out of the rich won’t solve income inequality either. A simple tax code without loopholes would go a long way to leveling the playing field. Not electing crony capitalist, corporate welfare whores to political office would help a lot too. Yes there is a role for government. It is limited, and the more limited the better.
You can’t point to one successful domestic program that takes money into Washington DC and uses that money for the greater good of this nation. Social Security is the closest you could come, but the politicians can’t stand seeing that money sit there. So they have screwed that up too.
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To Fl Teacher:
Here is your expression, “…capable of voting for an establishment Republican”
Are you really from Florida, and are you a certified teacher?
Please try to explain the difference between righteousness and rightfulness? Which ideology is brutal and cruel to the human civilization? To be favor policy of master-slave, to degrade woman’s right, and to be intolerant about different culture is the establishment Republican? Back2basic
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Fl Teacher,
I have little faith in the CURRENT government, but SS is one of the most successful programs ever, and it is self funding and does not contribute to the debt. Even ronal Reagan stated adamantly that it was NEER to be touched or compromoised.
As far as your fear of things not getting funded by taxing the wealthy or by having government “screw it up”, I am not completely in discord with what you are saying, but if Canada, Australia, Western and Northern Europe, New Zealand, and Japan can do it (and they all do it from the moderate to the heavy parts of the egalitarian spectrum), then certainly we can, lest we more into a country like Mexico, where the rich, the corporations, and the government are all in bed with each other and the average person is largely ignored, left to fend for themselves far too often and under classist circumstances. I refer in this instance, to be clear, to the Mexican ruling elite, and NOT the innocent and beautiful Mexican people, who have learned to distrust their political system for the most part, which is exactly what the ruling elite there want and have accomplished. The entertainment televised there is offered by the strangled media and is used as one of the biggest propaganda tools in Mexico to keep people distracted and dumbed down; that, and a public education system that has token funding from the Mexican tax base.
It’s time America grow up . . . .
Government is the solution, and it is up to us as civic participants to make sure we have the right people in office and hound them for their accountability. And to run for office ourselves!
We still vote . . . . Catastrophic coverage is fine for long term illnesses or severe conditions, but the average cataract surgery or birth delivery can run from $1500 to $30,000. How are people supposed to readily afford that? Those are not catastrophic.
No!
Healthcare is a human and civil and birth right, and not a commodity. Universal healthcare systems, as cited by even a famous Canadian industrialist and billionaire – a friend of the Kochs no less – are the most cost efficient and effective, functional systems. Even this individual questioned why the USA, one of the wealthiest and modernized countries in the world, does not have a universal, single payer system.
It is not a question of capability or resource; it is one only of will . . . .
A decades old extremism of individualist thinking instead of collectivist thinking is fast destroying the fabric of this country and ruining a few hundred million lives. It’s not to be tolerated . . . .
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Cx:
” . . . is one of the most successful programs ever, and it is self funding and does not contribute to the debt. Even Ronald Reagan stated adamantly that it was NEVER to be touched or compromised.”
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Cx:
” . . . then certainly we can, lest we morph into a country like Mexico, . . . ”
I am a terrible typist!
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Agreed. Oddly, if you are a Democrat, the Republican candidates look evil, evil, evil, and the Democrat candidates are teh awesomesauce. And vice versa. Crazy how that happens. Even if we focus on just education, which unfortunately we can’t, we find that none of the candidates are great on education with the possible exception of Sanders, but all of them are good at least on some part of it. For example, Cruz and Trump are against common core and for local control (Trump is even pro school boards). Unfortunately, they favor competition between schools, buy into the international rankings nonsense, and appear to want to do education on the cheap. My feeling is that if we can truly get local control, everyone will get what they want. Time will tell.
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m4potw, I have no idea what you are babbling about.
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I find nothing in history or my personal experience to support this assertion:
It’s time America grow up . . . .
Government is the solution
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Sanders is a New Deal Democrat. If elected, he will be The People’s president. Sanders does not take contributions from large donors, super PAC or corporate money, never has.
Clinton, on the other hand, will be compromised. From 2013 to April 2015, despite the fact that she was making plans for a presidential run, Clinton gave 91 speeches, receiving $21.7 million from Wall Street, corporations, and trade associations. Some of the special interests who doled out the big bucks.
I would vote for Hillary if she is the Democratic candidate but I believe Bernie would better represent the average or poor person. He is attempting to start a revolution for a government that works for the people, not just the top wealthy.
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Hillary is qualified to assume the presidency? I’m sorry but that is simply not the case. She has experience alright in lying flip flopping selling out to do the bidding of her corporate masters and the list goes on and on. Qualified to be president my ass.
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During the last presidency there were lots of books and articles circulating about authoritarianism, “strict parents,” and the like. Now it appears that the authoritarians in America have found their perfect candidate, seems like a good time to revisit this discussion.
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism
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May Trump fail at his bid for the White House!
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Ironic the “vox.com” does not provide an opportunity for its readers to voice their opinions.
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The GOP’s race to the bottom has cast a disappointing pall over the election season, to be sure. It isn’t all doom and gloom, though: the unequivocal rejection of black and Latino voters of Bernie Sanders, whose platform and worldview insist that poverty is post-racial, has been nothing short of inspiring.
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The GOP is imploding little by little, and I can’t wait!
Shall I make you some popcorn also, Tim? It’s quite a spectacle.
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Democrats will certainly need all hands on deck to defeat Trump if he gets the nomination, including progressives, non-voters, & the otherwise disaffected. He has been getting previously low-participating Republicans to the primaries/ caucuses, as well as garnering low-info party-changers foolish enough to think he can (or even wants to) single-handedly restore the middle class.
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I think we all have one common belief: public schools are the most democratic institutions in our society, and they hold the greatest promise of providing an equal opportunity to all students.
I am saddened that so many have not learned the lessons of the 21st century. Public schools have a fighting chance at the state and local level. They have no chance of standing up to the power of the federal government. Deep down most of you believe there is a Democrat savior who will come to the rescue. You are dead wrong, but you won’t admit it until the death of the neighborhood public school is a fait accompli.
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OK, so how biased will this blog be? To promote the Left and claim the Right has no qualified candidates and their views “extreme” (as if those of the other Pole are completely objective?). Those that believe there are no such things as moral absolutes are just as “extreme” as those that don’t. Yet, history sides with those that do, because it demonstrates that societies and cultures corrupt, degrade and decay when it citizens become atheistic hedonists. The fall of all Empires testifies to this.
So, while the Left maybe better for public schools (and as a conservative, I detest the practices of many of the party and its’ privatization movements), let’s be a little less biased when making statements like only the Dems have good candidates.
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Rick Lapworth, this blog is not the NY Times or CNN. It is a personal blog, that is why it is called “Diane Ravitch’s Blog.” I express my opinion and others express theirs. I believe in separation of church and state. I don’t want politicians or anyone else imposing their theology on me. I am not neutral.
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Agreed Diane, and I have the utmost respect for you, your blog and contributions to our national pedagogy. I’ll just point out that we all have our “hidden curriculum”, our agenda of our own inferred or implied “theology”. Even secular humanism makes its own theological claims.
Do you believe there are no conservatives that are proponents of public education? While I lean Right, I’m also a firm advocate that the State has a role in social justice, as our Judeo-Christian heritage promotes. As Solomon noted “a wise person avoids all extremes” (though Ecclesiastes is more about existentialism, than doctrinal orthodoxy).
Grace!
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Rick, thank you. I welcome your participation and comments on the blog.
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Right on target Diane. Those with the agenda of children should be writing the rules of children. Corporations rarely have the same mindset as do educators.
Listen to everyone, of course, but there is a different way of thinking in corporations that have never been in a school or a classroom.
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Here is the headline from BBC: “Donald Trump’s tone likened to Hitler by Mexico’s Pena Nieto”. I’m sending a partial quote from that article:
“The Mexican leader also said that Mr Trump had hurt US-Mexico relations.
Donald Trump has said that if he is elected he will build a wall along the US-Mexico border to keep migrants from crossing into the US illegally.
The Republican candidate has also insisted that Mexico would pay for the border wall, which President Pena Nieto dismissed out of hand.
He said there was “no scenario” under which Mexico would ever pay for such a wall. ”
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I don’t understand why people vote for Trump thinking that he can accomplish something by bullying. This may (MAY???) have helped him in business but definitely won’t help in international relations.
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