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Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about
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On 7/1/2024 8:58 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:02:21 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/30/2024 8:42 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On 29 Jun 2024 18:07:58 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:38:38 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>>>>> Nicoll) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are no sane Republicans, nor uncorrupt.=20
>>>>>
>>>>> That's unduly pessimistic.
>>>>>
>>>>> They are just local and so unknown to outsiders.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will, however, concede that they are getting harder to find.
>>>>
>>>> Again true a decade ago, but at least in our local party the sane people
>>>> are being driven out.  We have folks running for city council who are
>>>> obsessed with stopping abortion and promoting what they claim to be
>>>> Christian values.  One of the big deals is promotion of school vouchers,
>>>> which are likely of real benefit in some urban areas but which here are
>>>> primarily used to fund de-facto school segregation.  So many of the
>>>> small-government pro-business Republicans are no longer active in the
>>>> local party.
>>>
>>> Our wide-open primary (anybody can claim any party they want to), at
>>> least some time back, included not just "Republican", but "Old
>>> Republican" (ie, pre-Trump), "G.O.P" (also non-Trump) and so on. The
>>> actual political parties have nothing to say about this (in the
>>> primary).
>>>
>>> They also regularly include people who believe that "Mayor of Seattle"
>>> means that they set National policy on various issues. I don't vote
>>> for such persons, as they clearly have no idea what the job they are
>>> running for is, and so are unlikely to be good at it.
>>>
>>> As to de-facto school segregation: "white flight" (from the Public
>>> Schools) has been for decades and continues to be a well-known
>>> phenomenon. A lot of the attacks on Public Schools are because they
>>> let "them" in and, worse, mix "them" with "us".
>>>
>>> I wonder if the groups running the "white flight" schools realize
>>> that, if a certain Supreme Court justice gets his way, Brown v BoE
>>> will fall and their entire reason for existing will vanish in puff of
>>> legaleeze.
>>
>> Why would they need to continue once they've won?
> 
> But do they /want/ to win? Wouldn't they rather keep raking in the
> bucks from racist parents?
> 
Who said anything about not lying anymore once they've won?

> If the latter is the case, they need to see if they can shovel enough
> money into his pockets to change his tune. This won't be easy; they'll
> be competing with a very rich man who already appears to own him.
> 
> And some people think slavery is dead ...

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