From 2005: Freepers Brainstorm How to Break Teachers Unions

[Smarmie Doofus]

Fascinating stuff. Read past the post and on into the comments.

>>>The power of the teachers unions within the DemocRATic Party is enormous. A big percentage of delegates at their conventions are teachers.

Can someone start by volunteering to be in charge of an AT WAR WITH THE TEACHERS UNIONS ping list? Will someone or several someones volunteer to help with assigning tasks?

Make no mistake about it. Hillary Clinton is depending on these foot soldiers to carry her back into the White House.>>>


History is useful because it allows perspective. Perspective deepens understanding.

So the question is: why have so many Democrats... electeds ( a lot of them are $$$-off; so I at least understand that) of course, but also a lot people HERE, gone over to that "side"?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519119/posts#comment?q=1

[Aristus]

1. Not me. Never.

I stand with teachers 100%. Union YES!

[reteachinwi]

2. This worked in Wisconsin.

Broke my heart.

[dkf]

3. Goodness are you taking freepers seriously?

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Not at all. Exactly the opposite. But apparently many DEMs have. n/t

[madfloridian]

4. The GOP doesn't have to break teachers' unions.

The new education "reforms" supported by both parties are doing a fine job of that.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. My point exactly. What I can't figure out is exactly when....

.... it became acceptable , even *respectable* for Democrats to echo the idiotic and hysterical ravings of the far right on the question of public education.

Was it about the same time that it became *profitable*? For example, around the same time Gates et al started pouring hundreds millions all over the issue like so much pancake syrup?

I'd like to think that most people running w. a D after their names are better than that. But what I'd like to think and what I increasingly find myself thinking are increasingly two different things.

[madfloridian]

6. I am still in disbelief about a lot of it.

It's just like before the Iraq war...we who fear what is being done in our name are ignored and often insulted by our own party.

[Nevernose]

8. That's a good comparison

"Just sit tight, commoners, and let the experts deal with the major crisis." And then we're left trying to solve a largely artificial problem.

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. The IWR was a reawakening for me.

Less that it passed than that so many DEMS supported it.

I would have believed it in the seventies. But got complacent/"moderate"/"pragmatic" by the 90's. Clinton was not Gingrich, after all.

Then: 2002... I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing. i.e. What many DEMs in congress were doing and saying.

There are a lot of parallels here, I'll give ya that.