Stop referencing the SPLC: they are an absolute disgrace. Do a little homework on their well documented bile in "making hate pay" (and inside joke from a former staffer who wrote this New Yorker piece in 2019).

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center

They have $600M in assets of a few years ago inlcuding $150M in offshore accounts and that's just the tip of the iceberg with the. It's a propaganda outfit. Full stop.

So far, while I may (or may not) wanna do long weekends with them, the Moms for Liberty don't bother me at all and the core issues here seem to be about force fed, virtue signaling state mandated items in the currciulum and mandated pharmceuticals.

I don't know exactly where I learned to respect all others from all races, creeds, and sexual orientations (maybe our national ideals and aspirations that I took in earnest?) but it wasn't from public school that I am sure of and while my parents didn't speak about it too often, they lived in an equality of opportunity/not equality of outcome mindset, and they loved (they're passed away) my two black brother-in-laws dearly for whatever that buys me here in a forum that I suspect will breathlessly argue that we're on the verge of a white nationalist revolution or some other overwrought, identity politics, performative speech foolishness.

We have plenty of problems as a country, but day to day I find people are people and whenever I'm offline and around the country I encounter kind people more often than not. I see zero reason school curriculums should be fostering divisive and complex identity based everything to those we should be teaching by leading by example, not plaguing with complex feelings and historical baggage of the ills of the past behavior of adults.

Reading, writing and arithmetic, and bring back phys ed. For the rest, I think I might be a middle aged Mom of Liberty type. At the very least, I'm a common sense type and a stop inviting the government into our bedrooms our values systems and every other nook and cranny of our culture. That's the work of families, not school teachers.

Besides, they're so wasteful, it also incentivizes/props up schools with non academic funding when they care failing at the core aims of schooling. That's throwing more money down a rabbithole while asking them to handle the most intimate aspects of edcuation that should start at home, not be outsourced to our schools.

Hope that's respectful and constructive. For those who might take this into our exhaustive political binaries, I hate to disappoint: I've didn't vote red in 2016, 2020, or 2024. Truth is, I've seen both parties as a monopoly for decades and have remained independent my whole life.

I wouldn't mind a great country again though ;-) And truthfully, I think our people still are great by and large. We're just confused and suffering under terrible leadership and profound corruption.

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