The Blinders of Partisanship: How Republicans and Democrats Miss the Point – We’re All Being Screwed
Perhaps the biggest disappointment of this election cycle wasn’t Donald Trump’s victory.
It’s how quickly many of our allies on the right gave up their beliefs to fall in line.
Under President Barack Obama, those on the left and right were united against Common Core.
We both realized it was a terrible policy – though sometimes for different reasons. Never-the-less, we put aside politics to fight Bill Gates, David Coleman, Eli Broad and other privileged left-leaning elites.
And through this common struggle we came closer ideologically. I’m a New Deal FDR Democrat, but even I could see how the Obama administration overstepped its federal authority pushing charter schools, standardized testing and the Core down our throats.
But as soon as Trump ascended to the Oval Office, many conservatives gave up their objections to this same kind of federal overreach.
Apparently Obama was wrong to push charters, but Trump is just fine pushing school vouchers. Obama was wrong to require high stakes testing, but Trump is just fine requiring the same thing. Obama was wrong to push Common Core, but all these Republican-controlled state houses that could eliminate Common Core tomorrow are right to leave it in place unchallenged.
This is incredibly hypocritical. Yet it’s not just with this one issue.
We see the same thing with healthcare. What we now call Obamacare was invented by a far right think tank, the Heritage Foundation. It was first implemented by Mitt The Blinders of Partisanship: How Republicans and Democrats Miss the Point – We’re All Being Screwed | gadflyonthewallblog:
