(10-19-2020, 01:06 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(10-19-2020, 11:22 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Eh, I think you’re dismissing the power of correct thinking people. This didn’t happen in a vacuum. If a school board attempts to push this agenda in most places it will be vigorously opposed.
San Diego got away with it but is in no way a bellwether.

You also have to take into account that this does not affect the true achievers. The left just simply dug the basement deeper to ensure they have a solid voting base in the future.

'Those mean white racists dare to hold you to their standards? Then there will be no standards.'
-- 10 years later --
'Those mean white racists won't offer you a good job or college because of their achievement standards? Then vote for me and I'll make them pay.'

The left has been doing this for 50 years. It's simply another tact.

Has this ideology gained influence or not? Every dominant society has crumbled from within, and it's because its citizenry becomes complacent. 20 years ago, I would have shared your sentiment, but unless an actual resistance forms, the outcome is going to be no different. The 60s were rough, but there were hardships and external threats that kept the people united. That is not the case. There is no bigger threat to the right than the left, and no bigger threat to the left than the right.

Local politics has stayed fairly even keeled. I think what you're interpreting is the influence the left has effected upon the American populace, leveraging the MSM and Hollywood, for the last few decades. But it has outkicked its own coverage. The zeitgeist of uneasiness, and even of threat, is only perturbations of those who are losing grasp of the narrative they've controlled for so long. And so the pendulum swings. 

Have more faith in your fellow citizens, regardless of political stripe. Many people can talk an angry divisive game, but in the end, they have to go to work tomorrow like everyone else.

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