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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

These folks are not conservatives, they’re reactionaries. They say children who protest are pwns of the teachers union, but they are using the children as pawns of their own, repugnant agenda.

When things get really bad, as they have here, folks turn out to vote. The three seats might be filled with decent candidates. But don’t stop there Woodland Park, force a recall for the remaining extremists to be removed, demand a vote over the American Birthright curriculum to repeal it immediately, repeal the charter school. These things can be done, you just need to stand up and vote.

At some point there has got to be a reaction to the right’s culture war. There may be folks on the left that are extreme, I rarely see it happen, but nothing from the left rises to the level that the right claims it is. No one’s forcing children into drag shows, no one’s teaching white children that they hold responsibility for slavery and they ought to be ashamed of themselves, no one’s making millions of unwilling children get surgery to change genders, no one is trying to stay pregnant for eight months only to abort at the last minute, none of this is happening but the right is pushing the lies and pushing legislation to solve these strawman issues. There are no litter boxes. We can’t let them keep lying, we can’t believe them when they say this bs. The left folks are falling for this shit, because it is repeated so often it’s beginning to take on a life of its own.

My town has dealt with a bit of this type of nonsense, it’s very minor compared to Woodland Park, but we turned out for the sake of quality education for our children. Let’s encourage Woodland Park to do the same.

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oraxx's avatar

It is the nature of conservatism to be backward looking, intolerant, and stagnating. These people want the kind of education that helps the Christian nationalists in their efforts to rule the country. It's also the kind of education that guarantees America's failure. I don't think they will succeed in the long run, but they're capable of doing immense damage in the short term. I hope none of those kids want to get into a decent college.

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