How angry are we these days?

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. I saw an marked increase in general psychological dysfunctionality among people I worked with...

... in the three years before retired ( 2012 ). Depression, anxiety disorders, the whole range. Evident spike in alcohol, drug use. Insomnia.

I worked in public schools. On and on it goes. A long time colleague ( *spectacular* teacher) took a psychiatric leave a few weeks ago. Not going to come back, I'm pretty sure.

>>I do NOT blame the President, I Blame the Bush administration, the Republicans, all of them, and the right wing media that feeds them.>>.

It's the *policies* that are of concern to me... not whether the candidate has a D or an R after his name. Obama, lacking any personal experience in this area, has mindlessly embraced the "market based school reforms" of Bush and *intensified* them exponentially. Chaos, mega-bureaucracy and complete dysfunctionality has (quite predictably) ensued.

I see little philosophical difference between the corporate ( ok: "Obama&quot wing of the DEM party and George W. Bush. Truth be told, urban public schools worked better under Bush than they do now... at least all the ones I know about. ( I do activism in this area so I know about a LOT.)


Point: just sticking a bunch of "little Obamas" in congress to replace teabaggers is not going to solve much of anything. At least not as far as public ed goes.