Replies to post #411699 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Your description certainly does not apply to the former president or to most of his supporters, who continue to believe that the election was stolen and, in turn, use that lie to support voter suppression measures.

That same president also delivered the worst of false equivalencies.....many fine people on BOTH sides......when one side was made up of neo-nazis, skinheads and proud boys.

Trump supporters agreed.

I've said it before,,most folks don't care where someone came from nor the color of ones skin etc....They care about how one acts and a fair playing field....And that's it.

[brooklyn13]

Agreed. We seem to have a situation where the silent majority has morphed into the loud minority. Take schools, for instance, numerous polls (previously posted) have shown that parents like their kids' teachers and what's being taught. But we have a group disrupting school board meetings, threatening board members, and trying to create a wedge issue against public schools.

We can, maybe, remember, during the various town hall meetings about the ACA, much the same scenario unfolded in many locations, a disruptive minority getting the attention. They were mostly so-called astroturf groups, claiming to be natural eruptions of peoples' real feelings, but were actually bankrolled by the big money crowd.

And then go back to the Brooks Brothers Riot in Florida, it worked there on behalf of W, so it's in the playbook. Make no mistake, the goal is to privatize education along with most other government services. Which has worked well exactly nowhere else, but like the zombie theory of trickle down economics, it remains a powerful force.