Democrats are a lot like public school educators.
Both are their own worst enemies.
Take teachers, especially those working here in Florida. The very passion held for the education of children is the Achilles heel of the profession. As an example, most in the Sunshine State haven't seen a pay raise in a couple of years. As a right to work state, strikes are out so the next best option suggested by unions is passive resistance.
Do your job, do it well and leave at quitting time. Meaning, walk out the door when the whistle blows.
How many teachers do you think leave at the stroke of Time to Head Home? School boards know the answer as do state legislatures. As long as teachers continue to shoot themselves in their collective bargaining foot, those in charge of the money train will continue to stomp all over them.
The Democrats are way similar. More than a few years back--long before Obama addressed the 2004 Democratic convention--I was over at the Kos blogging education regarding whatever Draconian law was being shoved down RSO throats at the time, sex offender registries, public notification, take your pick.
A comment caught my eye, something to the effect that these types of special interest issues were exactly what served to divide the Democratic party, what the GOP exploited and if we were to win back the White House, solidarity and a single focus is what would get us there.
Although I felt dissed at the time, the message certainly worked. Dems got their collective act together, won back the White House and the majority in Congress.
The sun set on eight years of this country stuck in reverse and promise of a better life for Americans broke over the horizon.
Health care reform was more than a possibility.
One year later, we as a Party are shooting ourselves in the foot over what the anonymous Kos commenter would claim as special interests inhibiting the passage of what is likely a once in lifetime possibility.
What lesson have we not learned?
Besides not to aim at the big toe?
3 comments:
down in a hoooolllle feelin so small....
Sunny, you're right !
Magister and anyone else who is out there: don't forget the SPT. I am being attacked daily for commenting against the vigilante style of the posters. Who are mostly cops and firemen or their trolling reporters. Same as at tampa trib. I recognize the personalities. Today on one of the links I put yesterday in sunny's previous post about the 69 charges of child porn someone suggested I must be a pedophile for commenting that the guy's only arrest was ADULT SEX no force no physical harm and then another one said I reminded him of a pedophile he worked with before he was caught. My comments were strictly on the fact that they forced him homeless and possibly framed him from day one. ANyway .... just thought you should know that. Intimidation and threats. They're DESPERATE to hold on to this one ... the RSO works very well for them as an asset seizure tool. Also some ass over there says there is substantive link between looking at porn and then going to get a kid to defile. Right.
So ...
Keep educating.....:)
Anon - throw me a link.
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