Why Do Conservatives hates Liberals, other Americans?

What is up? why all the hate? Winning an argument is great. I love trying to win a debate or an argument. I love trying to get someone to change their mind and for me to prove I am right. Liberals are worse than Russians. In 2016 election, Trump supporters liked Putin over Hillary Clinton? Why? WTF? Why the need to troll, to own the libs? Why the need to hate? Why would you never agree or vote for the other party? why would a conservative never vote for a liberal, especially when there are more common economic links than ever before. Liberals are not Americans? Liberals are criminals? Pedophiles? Sex rings? really? We are Americans and love our country. I do not know any liberal that hates their country, even Rosie O'Donnell who moved away. I might complain, bitch and be upset over some item, the past, an event, but I love my country and the Constittution. I love my fellow Americans. All Americans want to live a life in freedom, in peace. Americans want good doctors, good roads, good schools. Americans want to be safe and protected. Americans want the same thing, but how we get there is different. We do have the same belief in American ideals: individual worth, compromise, free enterprise, equality, limited government. We even might have different definitions on these ideals but we agree on most of them. We love our country. Conservatives and liberals love our country. Why all of the hate on Liberals? Liberals are not the enemy? Liberals are not criminals, marxist, communnist hating America people. We believe in the flag, the country, the Constittuion. We love the country with all of our heart, just like Conservatives. Many liberals are religious and if they are not they do not want your church destroyed or eliminated. Liberals do not want open borders and they are not trying to cheat by allowing undocumented people to vote. They do not even know what the White Replacement theory is and have not heard of it (most Americans). Liberals believe in the value and worth of immigrants. We have a border and always did, and you could not just cross without showing documents-that is not an open border. (Please remember we had open borders from 1492-1920-no issues with border at all-see Ellis Island). We do not want criminals, drug dealders, cartel members or terrorists coming into the country. We like due process to know who we are putting in jail, or removing from the country-it is in the Constittuion-use it. Liberals support public education and want public schools to be great, the best. We just do not think helping private schools, with vouchers and school choice is the answer. Arizona has been a big promoter of vouchers and private schools, homeschooling and if these worked, AZ would be improving in education not getting worse. The federal government cannot support both public schools and pay for private schools too and keep the standards high with low taxes and cutting budgets. Liberals are not pro abortion and want every woman to get an abortion. It is a choice and as a conservative, you should not want the government making health care decisions for you. A conservative wants government not to be involved in a personal, important family decision. It is not my call unless I am in the situation. If I am in the situation with a surprise pregancy, the decision should be between my doctor, my wife, my family, not a legislature or governor or President. Most issues can be compromise-taxes, spending, health care, debt, libraries, roads-we do not have to hate each other on these. The culture wars are made up by the media. Abortion, death penalty, guns, church and god are culture ideas we can live together with-we might not agree but we do not need to hate and dispise each other. I do not know the facts but I would guess that abortions are performed for both liberals, conservatives and independents, non affliated-you can't tell me only liberals have abortions. Liberals have and love guns, just like conservatives. The trans issue is mostly about women's sports and is a tough issue-only 50 trans female athletes in high school and college with over 500,000 athletes-not a big number to cause all the fuss. I thought conservatives were about freedom to live and let live-to be left alone-well, why not with trans people-all trans people. They are not evil or the devil. Gay and lesbians, bi people are not evil or the devil-they want to live a peaceful life without drama. Have any of these people hurt you? How? Have they destroyed your life, because many of their lives have been trampled on and suicide rates on LGBTQ are higher than any other demographic group. Part of an issue that liberals have with conservatives is that you do not practice Jesus teachings: love your neighbor, blessed are the meek, the poor, help the stranger. Liberals do not see conservatives practice Jesus or Christian teachings-we see hate and biogtry-that is not Jesus but the current church. We Americans have more in common than not. We work, travel, go to stores and help each other daily. We go to sport events, movies together and love the events. We are daily with and around each other and get along. We are kind 95% of the time. It is only when we talk politcs or religion we get off the mark. And most of the hate is online not in person. Don't hate, listen. Listen to other points of view and be empathetic-see from the other point of view. Be kind. Be loving. Be caring. Be human Listen. We are all people. We are all Americans. Love each other.

Why I quit Teaching

Teaching for 22 years was fun. In my classe, we could have discussions and talk about slavery, civil rights, gay marriage or gay rights, women's rights and equlity. Talking, discussing and challenging each other was interesting and fun. Students would have points of view, were respectful and talked. We had no omplaints, no parent calls, no questioning "is this in the curriculum?" I would have students bring in and talk about current events, election news and laws or Supreme Court cases. We had school wide and class elections on current candidates and subjects. It was fun to talk and discuss politics, history and government. Sometimes a class was conservative and i wopuld bring up liberal point of view and sometimes the class was liberal and I brought up the conservative point of view. I would quote Regean, Obama, Bush, Carter, Clinton and Trump. I would say when they were right and wrong. We would discuss the Constitution court cases. Now, I have to watch what I say?!! Did I offend anyone? Did I say something wrong? Did a student say something wrong? Is the textbook biased? Can we discuss racial issues? Can we discuss equality? Equity? The textbooks are attachked and the question is, do we we discuss January 6 or September 11? Is slavery a topic to talk about? 3/5 compromise? Would I say something wrong? Was it needed? Hell, even you are welcome here is seen as political. Students can feel open to discriminate, talk poorly about someone. I never gave referrals until the end when students were mean to other students. They were offensive but nothing was done. I sent title 9 referrals and the District did nothing. White students were protected from feeling upset but minoority students were not protected. The "N word" was heard more and more. Language got wrorsee and worse. It was ugly at the end of my career I had students say rude things to other students in front of the class. We had rules to protect the safety of students, but the administration did not back up the teachers. The parents who were loudest won. Parents were banning books and asking for my curriculum, my lesson plan, they won. I had students complete market research for our Market Day project, and the groups were asking for pronouns and this was seen by the GoldWater Institute as a violation and issue for my teaching-it was done by students, for my students but the survey asking for pronouns was seens as harmful and poor teaching. Individual teachers and lessons in Arizona were attacked and contacted to back up their lessons. I limited my Socratic seminars and limited the discussions in my classroom. I had to change nmy teaching methods and curriculum so not to get in trouble or the get on the radar of groups. No teacher or school district indoctrinates students. We are not promoting a gay lifestyle or any lifestyle. We want to be nice and suppoert students. We are not liberal trolls or bots telling students what to think or believe. Critial thinking is both required and needed and then attaked by parents and students. Critical thinking means we want students to see all sides, get research, information and listen. We want students to lear but we want students protected and to feel safe. some students do not want to listen or hear from anything different. I do not nor have , nor do I seen any teacher have an agenda for students. I do not want nor have I seen anyone in my departemebnt want to embarass studebnts or make them feel bad or wrong. We want students to look at both sides, to think and decide for themselves. We want students to see our history, the good and bad and make up their own opinions. In my class and at my schools, everyone is American, everyone is human. Can we not see good in everyone? Is this so bad? I see students act as snowflakes on both sides. Students will complain and point fingers at each other. Students think that each side is wrong, each side is unAmerican or each side is "dumb, stupid or other degrotatory terms. We see the other side as corrupt, facts are wrong, can't think. This gets overwhelming, it gets emotional and it hurts. It makes the day go longer and teachers have to react or corret students and this is difficult in this environment. Teaching is no longer fun when students do not want to listen or respect other view points. Teaching is not longer exciting or helpful when everyone is looking for a mistake or did he say that?!?! I am sad. I am longful for the old days. Were they so different? What changed? what haopened? Teaching is no longer fun? I do not see teachers respected, or helped. I see teahcers and education attacked, challenged and seen as the enemy. We are not the enemy. We are neighbors, friends. experts in our curriculum. We know the subject and students. We are disregarded and thrown aside. We are attacked as bad people, liberal and out of touch. I loved my students and I loved my job. I loved coming to work and talking and creating lessons. I loved my work and loved my career. Times have changed. People have changed. I do not love teaching anymore. this is so sad.

Are we too divided? Should we Split up? Are we the United States?

We have been divided before. In our founding, the Federalists and Antifederalists had major differences and we might have been one vote away from a League of Friendship like Europe forever. From the pre Civil War, civil War and Reconstruction we lost over 600,000 people and had a war showing our differences. In the 1960's we had cities burning, riots, protests and assisinations. So is today the most divided we have ever been? No. It does seem that the Supreme Court and Republican party are making many moves, laws, rights according to States Rights and brining us to the Articles of Confederation. The Supremacy clause is being ignored by states, courts and institutions. We are having decisions like Dobbs that what rights you have depends on the state you live in. 10 Commandments in classes, due process for people, the Bible in classes, what is taught in history (non white or minority history being erased), birth control, gun rights, death penalty are all state by state issues now, and people are ok with this. I always aske my class, should we become 50 different countries or divide up geographically or politically. Everyone says no, we like the United States. Seems the idea is great but the practice is we are separate countries. Where a girl is born is a huge consequence today. If you are LGBTQ, you are losing rights faster than you know it and where you live is critical. If we were the United States, the rights you have would be identical in all states. The freedom of speech is seen as universal in all states, but it is being attacked too. But some rights are national and then others are by state. This is chaotic, problematic and causes stress and concern to people's lives and circumstances. We need to decide to divide or if we truly are the United States, act like it. Politicans, governors, senators and justices need to look at the Supremacy clause, the Constitution and follow it as it was supposed to be. States were not all powerful under the Constitution, they had s sphere of influence but not a separe country. It seems like the US is drifting and we do not know where we are going. People are confused and politicans are trying to hold onto power. Chaos is here. The Courts will not help us, they are giving power away and acting like Confederates. Any thoughts? Should we divide? Is there hope to come together and be the United States. I hope so. My wish is yes. We have more in common then we think. We work, go to the store, go to games, movies and we act kindly, safely and nicely. We are a good people. We can come togehter, we just have to start thinking it is possible. We have to believe and act like it accordingly.

When will we take to the streets?

We know our politicans will not listen to the people. We vote, we go to meetings, we call our represetatives. We write letters, we complain. 88% of all American favor background checks on all gun sales. 77% of Americans favor family initiated red flag laws and 70% of Americans favor red flag laws initiated by police and law enforcement. Most Americans agree we do not want to live with school shootings. Americans believe something must be done. We are in agreement. Our solutions can be different but the goal is the same. School shootings are not to be a new normal, just a regular day. We, teachers, students, staff, faculty, parents, family, friends, are frustrated with nothing being done to solve or work on this issue. We know politicans will do nothing more than thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers solve nothing. We need to do something. We need to force politicans to act. We, the people, need to act. Letters, phone calls, meetings, voting or the usual tactics do not work. Nothing got done after Sandy Hook-this is proof the politicans are not going to do anything, ever, unless forced to do so. We have had protests before. We had the Women's March on Saturdays, protests on Sunday. The time is to shut the country down. It is time for all schools to close. Business in support to close. It is time to shut down airports and travel, time to stop business, traffic and get attention. A general strike. A day, two, three where we stop and make politicans take notice. Americans are frustrated, angry, upset. School shootings are not right-good or normal. They did not happen in my school years-1967-1979. They did not happen in the 1980's. Even with Columbine in 1990's they were not normal. Today, this is a common event. People MUST act! People must take to streets on work day. Students, teachers, staff not for pay or benefits but for our student's life. Not for economics but for life. It starts in school because the shootings are in schools, but they grow. Whoever supports the cause, takes time off. Who ever supports life and students strikes, stops for a day. One day can lead to another until politicans change their ways. Until politicans make changes. When are you tired? When is enough? We must begin!! We must take to the streets. We must have a general strike, for life. Support life, support schools, teachers and your children. Lockdown drills need to become a thing of the past. Strike and show the politicans we are angry, mad and not going to take it anymore!! Strike. Pick a day. Pick a week. School ends in May for many. Pick a time. Be heard. Strike. Join, ask and be heard. Taking it to the streets. Are you there yet?

The Case for Public Education

Public education is the cornerstone of modern societies, providing individuals with the knowledge, skills, and values they need to participate fully in the social, economic, and political life of their communities. There are several key arguments in favor of public education: Equity: Public education provides access to educational opportunities regardless of one's background, income, or family circumstances. This helps to create a more level playing field, giving all children a fair chance to succeed. Social Mobility: Education is a powerful tool for upward social mobility, enabling individuals to escape poverty and achieve greater financial stability. Civic Engagement: A strong public education system is essential for fostering informed, engaged, and active citizens who are capable of participating in the democratic process and making informed decisions. National Unity: Public education helps to promote a common national identity, shared values, and a sense of belonging among citizens. Economic Growth: A well-educated population is critical to a strong and vibrant economy, driving innovation, productivity, and competitiveness. Public education plays a critical role in ensuring that all individuals have access to the opportunities they need to reach their full potential and contribute to the well-being of their communities.

Supreme Court Checks

The US has a minority, rogue, Supreme Court that is setting an agenda against the will of the people. Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 78, said the judicial branch and Supreme Court was the weakest branch. It had only the "power of the pen" not the power of the purse or military. So do not be sad, do not worry, there are choices and ways to check the Supreme Court: 1) Constitutional amendment-hard to do-even Flag burning amendment failed after Texas v Johnson. Requires 2/3 vote of Congress and 3/4 of State legilatures or conventions. Won't happen on this any recent court decisions recently. 2) Impeachment-House can do-Cases can be made for Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavannaugh and Comey Barrett. Har to prove lying and need 2/3 of Senate-67 votes, will not happen. 3) Increase size of court. Last time was changed was to 9, 9 circuit courts, 9 justices. The theme today is 13 circuit courts, 13 justices. Requires 60 votes to stop fillibuster in Senate. House can approve, Senate will not. 4) Congress cannot change salary of existing justices but Congress can change funding for staff, administration. Hurts all sides and not effective with change. 5) Congress can pass a law for example codifying Roe. or changing Civil Rights. Can require 60 votes in Senate, House will pass. Issue is Supreme Court could strike down law, change law. 6) Congress can add courts, another level. Congress can add administrative courts. Cobgress can take away courts, change districts, change circuit courts. Congress created lower courts, they can abolish or change them. House can pass, Senate needs 60 votes. President and States do not have to enforce the laws. Maine does not have to do what Supreme Court said and give taxpayer money to private schools. Federal Government does not have to obey WVA v EPA ruling and just enforce as they want. The President and States enforce laws, the Supreme Court has no power here. See Brown, the President sent troops to enforce. If he did not, the States win. See Jackson in the Trail of Tears case, he ignored the Supreme Court decision. 7) Congress can change jurisdication for the appellate cases the Supreme Court case hears. For every law, Congress passes, they can add a section, Supreme Court cannnot decide this case. You can do this for any law. In article 3, section 2, the exceptions for appellate jurisdiction is up to Congress. Congress can codify Abortion, Health care, Voting right and then state Supreme Court has no jurisdiction-it is in the Constituion. It has been done in the past. Best solution. Now all of the problems in passing laws are in the Senate. The fillibuster is not in the Constitution. It is there for Southern Democrats against removing Jim Crow laws or slavery,. I do suggest getting rid of the fillibuster. I live in AZ and the House and Senate is evenly splet but Republicans have slight majority. They are passing draconian measures but they have one seat lead in Senate and can do-no fillibuster. This is normal in most states. The Senate can end the fillibuster forever or based on a concept-voting rights, womens rights, abortion, gay rights. An exception for one vote can be done. If the Sentate votes on any bill, it must RESTRICT the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court-even revenue bills. Any bill. The Supreme Court would get rid of Social Security, all agencies, womens rights, gay rights and maybe even Federal Reserve, banking, commerce laws. They want to go back to 1800s, so any law passed must have this-Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to review. It is in the Constitution in Artilce 3-no denying this. It must be followed. Any Republican Congress can do the same, but it is a solution to codifying Roe, Obamacare, Civil rights, voting rights. It is best way.How to pass it? End the fillibuster. End Fillibuster now. End minority rule. It is minority rights, majority rule.

History of Supreme Court-Mostly conservative activism

All I hear from Conservatives is that the Supreme Court is so liberal and has been so liberal for so many years. Liberals use Judicial activsm. Judicial activism is a dirty word. Looking at the Constitution today and not as the founders wanted is frowned upon. Well, looking at history, we have ONLY had 30 years of a liberal to semi liberal court-: 1955 to 1985. The rest of the time, we have had Conservative justices and conservative activsm. In the 1800's, the Marshall Court-would not say liberal but established Judicial Review and power of the Courts. We have Marbury v Madison and McCulloch v Maryland which basically state we have judicial review and implied powers. Important, crticial cases but non controversial.In Worchester v GA, Supreme Court struck down GA law infringing on Nativa American rights and the court followed US treaty law-not liberal, but conservative holding up US laws/treaties. PS Andrew Jackson did not enforce ruling and let Trail of Tears happen-said the Supreme Court could enforce their own laws-which they can't. Later, we got Dred Scott and allowing slavery, Corporations got individual rights using the 14th Amendment by our Conservative courts and Plessy v Ferguson and upholding Jim Crow laws. Chinese Exclusion laws allowed. The Courts helped business and the rich, did not make any cases helping people. Many decisions seen as activist and conservative In the early 20th century, the Supreme Court allowed Child Labor, ruled against state laws for pay requirements and hours or economic cases. Workers lost all cases during this time. We get Schneck v US, Gitlow v NY which allow restrictions on speech and government restrictions in war time. We get Buck ve Bell with disallowing people with low IQ having children-ps this is still in force. Always ranked one of worst cases decided ever. 1930's we got the Supreme Court upholding Roosevelt's New Deal as it applies to commerce clause and taxing clause and implied powers. These were conservative jusdges but these laws could be overturned by the current court as they do not believe in precedent, commerce clause and implied powers. This court did give us Korematsu and other cases limiting Japanese American Rights, limiting African American Rights. What did the Liberal Courts give US: Desegregation of Schools with Brown v Board of Education, school prayer removed withe Engel v Vitale, Miranda Rights, Right to an Attorney paid by States in Gideon, Brandenburg V Ohio and speech rights as long as it does not cause a riot or immenent harm, Right to Privacy in Griswold, Right to interracial Marriage in Loving and womens rights in pay, equality in multiple cases in the 1970's won by Ruth Bader Ginsberg. THe Court turned right in 1980 under Reinquist but we did have some cases that helped liberals-Texas v Johnson and flag burning was allowed, Roe V Wade was upheld but States were allowed to put restrictions with the Casey v Planned Parenthood, Restrictions of school rights in Bethel v Fraser, Veronia Schools. The Court got more conservative in 1990's and 2000s. Rights in schools were removed or limited again in New Jersey v TLO, Gay Rights were expanded by 5-4 majorities with Bowers v Hardwick overturned and Obgerfell and Windsor allowing gay marriage. The Supreme Court decided a Presidential election in 2000. The Court allowed torture and restricting Writ of Habeas Corpus rights and taking away rights of privacy upholding the Patriot Act. The court restricted abortion and upheld state restrictions. The Conservative Court has changed the meaning of the second amendment and giving people an individual right to own a gun-activism breaking 200 years of precedent. They gave Corporation more rights-right to speech with Citizens United and Religious rights with Hobby Lobby. They have reduced Roe v Wade, limited Voting Rights-Shelby states there is no more discrimination in the US, allowing poll taxes and voter restrictions, the court has limited criminal rights with Miranda and helping police. Overall the Conservative Courts have allowed slavery, Jim Crow laws and laws upholding discrimination against Blacks, workers and women. Conservative courts have given Corporation Rights with religion and speech, have given the right to own guns-including owning almost all guns plus removing safety concerns or public safety laws by State. Conservative courts have gone againts Voting Rights, victims rights and allowing relgion and prayer in schools. Conservative courts are helping to dismantel public education with private edudation. Conservative courts are going against precedent with government regulations in the Executive Branh. Conservative justices are just as or even more activist than liberal courts and judges. Conservative justices do not have a problem contracting themselves, using originalism, precedent, restraint and making up rules and laws. The Conservatives do not use the Federalist Papers or text of the Constitution-or they selectivly pick parts not the entire document. Corporations are people? really? Money is speech? Really? 14th amendment applies to Corporations?Really? Discrimination in US does not exist? Really? Separation of Church and state does not exist? Really, if no, what does the First amendment say? If No, the Court is ready to let States have a state religion? The Conservative justices are ruling on their politics and beliefs. They are contracting themselves in rulings in one week. They are forgetting the Constittuion. his is activism! This is the Supreme Court run amok. We have had 216 years of Conservative rulings-mostly bad and terrible and 30 years of Liberal rulings. Which ones do you like? prefer: In no set order or reaons-just liberal and conservative: Dred Scott v Sanford or Brown v Board of Ed? Plessy v Ferguson or Gideon v Wainright Buck v Bell or Griswold v CT? Korematsu v US or Miranda v AZ Bush v Gore or Loving v VA? Citizens United or Tinerk v Des Moines SUSD Lochner v NY or Obgerfell v Hodges? Schneck v US or Baker v Carr Miller v US or DC v Heller? There are more bad cases than good cases. The Supreme Court has got more wrong than right. We are losing trust for a reason. It is a political instittuion now. Not due to leaks but poor law, poor decisions, poor reasoning, poor background, poor politics. We get what we sow. The 2016 election has consequences and we will have them for 50 or more years. But realize, the Court has mostly been conservative. Rule by white males-conservative and not using the law. I am scared of the future. I am scared of the next term. What will the court do or undo? What precedent will they overturn?