@Fishtroller 02

that I thought she made some her best points - how that the progressive attitude that exempts certain classes of people from societal standards that are actually there for a reason - not taking a crap on a sidewalk, not throwing molotov cocktails at people, for example - are both unfair to those who do attempt to maintain the standards and those directly victimized by such behavior but are generally not doing any favors to those given a free pass to engage in anti-social behavior.

Her simple example of how public schools making it nearly impossible to fail students and to remove the small minority of disruptive ones - making it impossible for the teacher to teach the majority who are actually motivated to learn - is telling and producing disastrous consequences for society.

I understand there are problems with charter schools, but at least some are far outperforming public schools with similar demographics. We need to look at what works and lose a whole lot of the bureaucracy and indoctrination, impart some skills and encourage critical thinking.

When it occurs to her that neither side of the aisle has it right, she will have truly reached the top of the mountain. She might want to dig into MLK's writings on economic justice. Attacking that problem was going to be his next phase.

You might want to see the transcript of the last three minutes or so I've added above - I think she will do OK - says she will be voting Republican (given the alternatives in most of Cal, sounds reasonable to me in the short run) but seems to be using the conservative in its current sense whereas she might be closer to Classical Liberal - pretty much outcasts/outliers in either D or R these days.

About MLK - yes, the PTB fear inclusiveness, they didn't kill him or Malcolm X or Fred Hampton or try to kill Judi Bari - until they started pushing unity instead of divisiveness...

Cheers,

BR

PS - When I got to the top of the mountain I just met a bunch of tourists from Osaka.

"You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large."

~ Thomas Sowell

Her initial reactions to Teach America were spot on. So was her compassion for her students. But notice when she became a nurse and was put off by those awful homeless people, she obviously lost that sense of compassion.
As bad as the problems are in public schools, she is wrong about charters. Charters are NOT the result of conservative concern for students in America. (Note here she quoted W on soft bigotry which was no doubt not written by him but by Gerson). Charters are a result of the desire to privatize everything in the country for profits. How she missed that is beyond me.
AND, her switch on reproductive rights put her on a wrong path too. Religious conservatives DO want to control her body and her choices about her body. That is at the heart of biblical Christianity.
She made some spot on observations about the Democrats/liberals shameless usage of race (Biden is one of the biggest racists on the stage these days), and their penchant for suppressing freethought and other opinions within their walls, but she seemed to be moving the white hat over to the GOP side and that's where she will get another rude awakening. When it occurs to her that neither side of the aisle has it right, she will have truly reached the top of the mountain. She might want to dig into MLK's writings on economic justice. Attacking that problem was going to be his next phase. As he asked, "what good is a desegregated restaurant if you can't afford the hamburger?"
Maybe she came to some of this within the last 10 minutes, but I just couldn't listen anymore.