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so I guess I better straighten up and fly right, eh?
Sorry, couldn't resist, you're so sanctimonious.
You're right - I didn't feel my undergrad degree qualified to educate my sons through the high school level. In fact, as soon as I thought they were old enough to be able to form and answer their own questions about religion, I put them back in public school. My eldest boy graduated with honors in Utah. He married early, and has a son of his own. He's a big guy, with a big laugh. Office job by day, plays guitar in a local band at night. He's happy, so I'm happy. My middle son and I moved to Florida, where he attends a magnate school for the Arts. He graduates this year. Some semesters he gets As, some semesters he gets Cs. I think his grade fluctuations have more to do with girls, and sometimes boys, than with his education. He came out as bi-sexual last year.
I find it funny that you think I don't get the big picture, when you can't even get the little details right. My kids aren't geniuses, nor are they falling behind. They are normal kids. Sometimes they do great, sometime they struggle.
You thought it would be cute to make a joke about home schooled children and their parents being the single greatest challenge to our way of life. I can take the joke, but I won't let the myth stand. People are individuals, and don't fit into your tidy little behavioral packages. As much as you preach about the evils of home schooling, your education does not seem to have provided you with that one simple truth. I may not be an expert (and never claimed to be, either), but it doesn't take an expert to see that those with myopia shouldn't give lessons to others on how to see "the whole big picture."
Welcome to DU!
Dems need to remember who we are and stand up to monied interests. Then start rolling back legislation put into place, beginning with the "Reagan Revolution" which gave the Oligarchs more control over media, made elections more big-money driven, etc.
The Democratic Party needs to reach back to its New Deal roots that prevailed for 45 years. FDR's "I welcome their hatred" speech needs to be familiar not just to Obama, but to national and local legislators, all the way down to citizens. We need to have the backs of Dem leaders on this. And that leaderships needs to call out the opposition any time they distort the truth or gin up any campaign of verbal bullying that originated in the 1990's from Newt and Frank Luntz.
The Democratic Party should never again allow itself to ape the Republican Party in catering to the corporate mentality. This happened partly because Republican legislation made elections more dependent BIG MONEY donations and because the party allowed itself to be defined by GOP bullying. This time around in the presidential election, thank God the difference between the two parties was plenty clear to voters - but mainly because much of America saw the ugly greed and extremism of the GOP. We must also continue to be clear about the ideals and goals of our party being the best for America and its citizens - even best for business, etc.
We must also find a way, as it was happening after the 1960's and into the 1970's, to give Americans a vision of what's important in life. Conspicuous Consumption that was promoted in the 1980's helped pave the way for average citizens to practically worship the rich and to actually believe they are the "job creators." There ultimately needs to be "a true revolution of values" like the one that King spoke of:
“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, 'This is not just.' It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, 'This is not just.' The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”
(By the way, the "true revolution of values" must also address what we do about Climate Change.)
Right now Democrats have emerged as the nation's leaders. We have the opportunity to lead this country into a different course than was set in the 1980's. Time to provide the nation with a vision for The Greater Good that rivals and succeeds anything "spiritual" that seemed to be offered by Right Wing Christianity or the Right Wing version of The American Dream ("I'm getting mine and to hell with anyone else"
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The ingredient most needed is ignoring bogus ideas from Republicans and maintaining the RESOLVE to LEAD.
(Sorry this is too long, but I couldn't stop once I got going. Our Biggest Threat did not develop overnight.)
which is NOT embraced in countries like Germany.
LMAOF.. it's not FAUX News. some of you apparently belong to the anti science crowd when it comes to media influence.
again, the "my brother's lberal friend became a right wing/Obama hater after watching FAUX News for thirty days" is hardly empirical evidence supporting the hysterical belief that the network is causing tens of thousands of progressives/moderates to "switch to the Dark Side". what nonsense.
you're ignoring the proof against this-- just provided by the outcome of the election.
