can we please have a third political party in America. can we call it the, "Not an Extremist Foaming at the Mouth Party," or the "I Possibly Have More than Two Braincells Party."
As an egalitarian the attack on public academic magnet schools by the left is as devastating to witness as the general attack the right has made on public schools for decades. I was lucky enough (and according to tests smart enough) to go to one of these academic magnet schools -- the only public school in my city able to compete with private schools. My parents tested into similar magnet schools. But now on the West Coast radical leftists are destroying these magnet/meritocractic schools. This trend would leave us with only two tiers of education in America, two castes, each rife with their self-assured sense of superiority, and no means of moving between these castes at all. We now have the hilarious tableau of minorities who desperately want to succeed infighting, with families that tend to be Asian or immigrant or mixed race like mine on one side, completely silenced, because families of other backgrounds who have been anointed and chosen by "the left" can now fully dictate what they think is right for public education. Rest in peace, meritocracy and upwards mobility. And don't get me started on my country's f***** up abortion policies, much less the topic of trying to raise a kid who is at least moderately smart in this country.
