Today was Election Day. That meant a day off of school (yay!) but meant ... it is the midterm election, and a rather dismal one at that. ( Cut for political stuff )
We have pretend Democrats in Carroll County too. Actually, most of the time, the Democratic candidates don't even campaign. I found exactly zero about one of the Democratic candidates for House of Delegates for my district. I ended up voting for him anyway only because I couldn't stomach giving a vote to either of the two Republicans who were my other choices, both of whom are vocal against same-sex marriage. I refuse to vote against my family's interests, even symbolically.
Dorothy Scanlan, the Democratic candidate I really liked for HoD, identified as a "conservative Democrat." Reading her platform, it seemed that the "conservative" part was mostly because she countered the myths Repubs have about Dems, i.e., she opposed waste but not spending. She was a Democrat and a sharp-tongued one at that. I liked her. She didn't win, of course.
The opposition to Common Core is so ridiculous to me because it is based on completely false information; I think conservatives have this vision of Obama sitting in the White House and striking Tom Sawyer from the imagined national curriculum and replacing it with a book about atheist gay black people practicing witchcraft. But once again, like with Obamacare, I have to put some fault for that on the Dems, who rolled Common Core out so quickly that they didn't really have a chance to explain what it was. That gap in knowledge has been ripe territory for myths and misconceptions to grow.
Dorothy Scanlan, the Democratic candidate I really liked for HoD, identified as a "conservative Democrat." Reading her platform, it seemed that the "conservative" part was mostly because she countered the myths Repubs have about Dems, i.e., she opposed waste but not spending. She was a Democrat and a sharp-tongued one at that. I liked her. She didn't win, of course.
The opposition to Common Core is so ridiculous to me because it is based on completely false information; I think conservatives have this vision of Obama sitting in the White House and striking Tom Sawyer from the imagined national curriculum and replacing it with a book about atheist gay black people practicing witchcraft. But once again, like with Obamacare, I have to put some fault for that on the Dems, who rolled Common Core out so quickly that they didn't really have a chance to explain what it was. That gap in knowledge has been ripe territory for myths and misconceptions to grow.
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