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In reply to the discussion: Pearson imposes gag order on teachers about test. [View all]truedelphi
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energy to put up these posts. IThey have been an education fo rme.
Please do not quit.
As far as the mis-logic in telling us progressives that we are bad people for being united on an issue with regards to finding RW'ers who also support some issue, that is just what it is. It is a misapplication of logic. We often need unity. For instance: Citizens in California would be drinking water tainted with MTBE if not for the ability of those on both sides to unite and fight it being in our gasoline.
Stalwart RW'ers believe in gravity, in the sun rising in the east, and often in believe in ending loathsome pesticide spraying across the roadsides and the school yards, etc.
Often, it is only by uniting with people from the other side that we get anything accomplished (Especially given how the Democratic leadership has put in place a plague of dim witted Blue Dawgies, that are often less tolerable to me than decent old fashioned Republicans.)
In any event, I sure did not see the Democratic leadership opposed to the many RW'ers who voted for Obama in 2008, hoping that he really would be bringing the USA some hope and change.
If not for the people who are not total loyalists to either party, in 2008, Obama would not have claimed the WH without a bitter fight. Had Obama used the early months of 2009 to offer up a honorable and sensible move away from Bailouts costing trillions to us in order to benefit the Big Financial Firms, those financially-motivated RW'ers would still be in his camp.