Wonderfully written story about a Trump community recalling MAGA school board members.

[sinkingfeeling]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/3/2191312/-Leopards-ate-the-face-of-this-conservative-Idaho-community?detail=emaildkbow&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email

Leopards ate the face of this conservative Idaho community

West Bonner County, Idaho, like most of the state, is Trump country. The four-time indicted former president won 73% of the vote in the county in 2020. And, following their MAGA instincts, county voters swept in a radical right-wing school board in the November 2021 elections.

After seeing those two board members work diligently to destroy their schools, county voters overwhelmingly recalled them last Tuesday.

The big 60% recall vote underscored the depth of disgust this conservative community felt for electing candidates who delivered exactly what they promised to do. And yet weirdly, they didn’t like conservative governance when it affected them directly!

It’s the “lone wolf” theory applied to politics. You see, the problem wasn’t conservatism, it was just these two rogue actors who are hurting the wrong people. They’d have no trouble with conservatives at the state board of education, say, arbitrarily cutting Boise’s school budget by a third. Those people deserve it. Those kids aren’t even all white! West Bonner conservatives just don’t like it when they, themselves, suffer the consequences of conservative ideology.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Yes for the GOP, laws are meant to protect themselves and control/punish others.

[KT2000]

2. That is exactly what they don't get

They are working so hard to support the real efforts to get themselves excluded. Why can't they see this.

[MagickMuffin]

3. So . . . What was the issue that got them riled up?

A limit on how many pancakes one can eat?

A limit on how many guns one can own possess?

A limit on how mayonnaise on buns? Or toasted buns?

A limit on how far they can travel outside their state?


So many questions!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. The issues are discussed in the article.

[keithbvadu2]

5. The MAGAts hired an unqualified school superintendent at a very high salary/benefits.

The MAGAts hired an unqualified school superintendent at a very high salary/benefits.

His qualifications were that he was rabidly right wing.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218235185

[Hortensis]

6. Well, their voters put education before far-right factional craziness.

Big step. And the experience-that-should-never-have-happened probably has lessened their tendency to be blinded by factional hostilities to basic good sense.

I see no reason to assume these voters won't care about attacks on education by extremists in state government. Those they regard that way, of course. Factionalism and its fears of "the other" don't exactly encourage thinking.

[Bev54]

7. But these people don't mind coming across the border to Canada to give birth

and no doubt now to have an abortion. For years they have been using our healthcare system because it is so much cheaper.

[Hotler]

8. As long as their policies fuck over Dems and Libs it okay but, ...

as soon as those policies turn and bite them in the ass 'oh the horror'.