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(DIR) Post #API0haJ5WBKKqTS6tc by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:37:57Z
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GLENN REYNOLDS, NY POST: WHY SUBURBAN WOMEN ARE FLOCKING TO THE GOP: AS SIMPLE AS A,B,CSomething’s happening in the suburbs. On the one hand, polls indicate that white suburban women are shifting — hard — toward the Republican Party. On the other, lots more parents are homeschooling their kids, post-pandemic. These phenomena are not unrelated.
(DIR) Post #API0lozKsInTXNEY7c by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:38:43Z
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Suburban women are shifting Republican — by 27 points, a Wall Street Journal poll found, with 74% saying the country’s headed the wrong direction — because the Democrats have let them down.Of course, as my father-in-law once said, when they raise taxes they tell you it’s for teachers and police, but when they get the money it goes to buy a fancy leather chair for some guy you never heard of in an office downtown.
(DIR) Post #API0pA7ekrRrx7icKW by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:39:20Z
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But if you’re going to justify the whole of government by invoking police and schools, maybe it would be a good idea to . . . actually provide police and schools. And Democrats across the nation went out of their way not to deliver either.To hear Democratic candidates, and the party’s media cheerleaders, talk now, nobody ever supported defunding the police. But, of course, Democrats across the board did just that, and GOP candidates, and honest media, have been replaying the video.
(DIR) Post #API0sOIYVR0GmqM95M by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:39:55Z
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In a spasm of post-George Floyd mass hysteria, the political system, and in particular the governments of Democratic-run cities, made drastic cutbacks in police protection, installed revolving-door, no-bail arraignment systems and encouraged the proliferation of homeless encampments and open-air drug markets in many areas.
(DIR) Post #API0w0x3FcUdXJ1eIy by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:40:34Z
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Unsurprisingly, the result was surging crime. Around America, downtown businesses have closed, and people — especially women — have felt unsafe in their own neighborhoods. Crime is now a major issue with the electorate, and even among black voters, the alleged beneficiaries of police defunding, only 17% support defunding the police, per a recent Grio/Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
(DIR) Post #API118KPFgWxrXOHDc by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:41:29Z
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Allowed to run things their way, Democrats have ruined many of America’s cities, from New York to Chicago to Baltimore to Los Angeles and San Francisco, among many others. And the crime has spilled out into the suburbs.Nor is it like taxes went down when police were defunded; the money just got diverted into the pockets of various Democratic interest groups.
(DIR) Post #API13pV9hnMELEhieu by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:41:59Z
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Schools didn’t do any better. Education policy (and even at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) during the COVID pandemic was essentially run by the teachers unions. This year, Senate Republicans outlined the improper and extensive influence teachers unions, particularly the American Federation of Teachers, wielded over the government’s COVID policies on schools. Union officials actually wrote key portions of Team Biden’s school-opening guidance.
(DIR) Post #API16xwUmKUxOCzICu by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:42:33Z
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Teachers liked working remotely, and teachers unions fought hard to keep them home as long as possible. Teachers had a nice time, but students suffered, to a degree that’s still sinking in.Even in 2020, The Atlantic reported that parents in New York, worried about crime and bad schools, were taking over the education of their kids. Since then, as schools did a worse and worse job, more and more parents decided to educate their own kids.
(DIR) Post #API1AR90fBG2pHUp3w by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:43:10Z
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Many kept it up post-pandemic. As the Associated Press reported: “In 18 states that shared data through the current school year, the number of homeschooling students increased by 63% in the 2020-2021 school year, then fell by only 17%” the next year.(It’s not just white suburban women. Black families, too, as The New Yorker recently reported, are increasingly homeschooling their kids.)
(DIR) Post #API1DZW5zWznf3mzyq by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:43:45Z
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For suburban women, the past couple of years have been an unpleasant, in-your-face lesson in the incompetence of Democratic Party governance, and the (huge) extent to which Democrats care more about their interest groups, like teachers unions and racial activists, than about the people they are supposed to be working for.In 2021, voters in normally blue Virginia elected Republican Glenn Youngkin over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in response to similar concerns.
(DIR) Post #API1Fgi0DrMGXvMrE8 by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:44:08Z
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McAuliffe ran on race, reparations and lockdowns; Youngkin on a sensible family-centered approach.Youngkin’s victory provided a model for the GOP; Democrats might have learned from McAuliffe’s defeat, but mostly doubled down, with the addition of hysteria about abortion and Jan. 6, issues that have far more resonance with the political class than most voters. Hence the movement of white suburban women.
(DIR) Post #API1H0Vm58IeFkHFYG by MMA@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T09:44:22Z
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The GOP is also increasingly getting traction with other groups Democrats previously owned, like black and Latino voters. Maybe Democrats just aren’t very good at what they do. Maybe next week’s elections will bring enough pain to spark a change. Maybe.https://nypost.com/2022/11/04/why-suburban-women-are-flocking-to-the-gop-as-simple-as-abc/
(DIR) Post #API1myBmFhyQJgAGYK by feetforbrains@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-11-05T09:50:06Z
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@MMA Your political views and the details you chose to cherry-pick say a lot more about you than they do about the political opposition you seem to oppose or the issues you'd like to discuss. Added to those unfortunate tendencies are these leaps you ask the reader to make repeatedly.
(DIR) Post #APIE69t4BKXBY9KSm0 by waronmorons@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T12:08:02Z
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@MMA I mean, they locked up and muzzled the world as they faked a pandemic, then caused a real one via poison from Big Pharma, are perverting and mutilating any child they can (if they don't abort them first) and they're ripping the country apart with the racialist lunacy.But despite all that, it's really as simple as this - they destroyed the economy and caused inflation to skyrocket.Lots of these women have to go back to work now, or they see what groceries cost and can't afford goods.
(DIR) Post #APIElMo739hxUff5H6 by feetforbrains@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-11-05T09:54:39Z
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@MMA For instance, you never explain how national education policy has been run by teachers' unions during the pandemic (which incidentally isn't over.Finally, while there are some legitimate reasons to dislike democratic politics and policy you're approach seems tribal at best. The assumption your readers are required to make is GOP good-Dems bad. The logic could be applied with equal criticality to any sports ball match-up you'd care to imagine.
(DIR) Post #APIElNDHXZqCkjRBVQ by feetforbrains@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-11-05T09:58:14Z
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@MMA Anyway, there are my notes. From my perspective, this is exactly why it's difficult to impossible to have a policy debate with adherents of Conservatism in the US.
(DIR) Post #APIElNuAy69UtlVRMe by pamby1@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T12:15:25Z
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@feetforbrains @MMA You've (I'm assuming you're Democrat or similar) had every megaphone(msm, big tech, education, corporations) available to you for decades now. You've nearly destroyed our entire country with your "compassionate & educated" policies. We're not debating with you right now because we have a country to save. It's time for YOU to listen.
(DIR) Post #APIJMd9DevIqhhYfbc by StockliRacer@freeatlantis.com
2022-11-05T13:07:04Z
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@feetforbrains @MMA FFB, From My perspective, your post is a perfect example of why it has been, and is, impossible to have a policy debate with adherents to modern liberalism in the US.