But I think what we’re seeing from these teachers who voted Republican is maybe they did want the government to bring back prayer in school, but they didn’t want education to be gutted and left to do. I think bringing back prayer in school is an atrocious idea, but I think a large majority (regardless of political affiliation) agrees that we want our kids to be literate and a large majority wants to be able to accomplish that in a way that is convenient to them (e.g., drop kid off a school down the street, send kid to meet school bus, etc).
When the schools start closing a day a week you get every teacher and every parent with school age children flipping out (this is the government cancelling your free daycare one day a week). I’m hoping this is a level of the population getting fucked that is sufficient to make people actually vote differently out of anger. We’ll see.
Yeah for sure. But those same people are capable of getting angry when things go awry and punishing whoever is in office for it. This looks like what is happening here.
I think there are only about two of those.
Mathematics has much better jokes than philosophy, and mathematicians drink plenty.
