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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
alright, o holy one, so riddle me this shit: as a school teacher, you've never had to compromise in order to achieve something? i don't know-- do they make you teach a subject you don't believe in, or do something you don't like, but you do it anyway so you can do a greater good as a teacher?
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I am not holy, I just refuse to say, "lets join one team because its a bit less evil than another." At the end of the day, I have to compromise every day out of Christian love to let folks grow in slow motion towards a truer community. Politics are centrifugal. That beings said, I am not John Boehner rejecting compromise, that catch us, I am not going to let vitriol to the right suddenly whitewash the sins of the left. Rather, myself, will wash my hands of the whole affair, and work more directly every day in the communities. I agree with the rights criticisms of teacher's unions, not because I disagree with the unions, unions are exactly the kind of grassroots organizations we should support and work with, however unions have become quite persuaded to bed with politicians. I'm not sure that is exactly the idea of a union in the first place
Should we suddenly throw out the unions as some scoundrels continually insist? God no. However, again, we need to more actively divorce ourselves from the political machinery and get back to work directly in our communities. Campaigning for a president and getting folks to register to vote may have a "feel good" effect, but at a very real level they are absolute theater, and lack any sort of power to effect actual change in our communities. We should take these same opportunities to advocate for actual change, at our local levels day to day. At a national level, we need to support a changing narrative and dialogue towards community, but we also need to not let that shit get us all disoriented. Assholes will be assholes, we got to learn to live with them, but that doesn't exactly mean we have to suddenly play for their team. Again, there are plenty of other ways to express political action and community building without having to join up directly with the established political machinery. I'm sorry if my facetious ranting has alienated some of y'all who believe in this political theater, but really, it should cause y'all to reflect on our system and think is it worth it to support this?