I'm sorry you have to work with a bunch of morons.
I feel for you. My BIL is a teacher in a middle school and about the only conservative there. I would imagine he goes through the same thing. Oh well, there are lots of people in this world that you'd just love to buy for what they're REALLY worth and sell for what they THINK they're worth.
Yup. My son is 40 yrs. old, and if I had it to do over and realized where we were headed, I'd have been caught trying real hard to either homeschool him or send him to a smallish Christian school where, at the very least, the mention of the name Jesus or God wouldn't cause the faculty, and some parents to go apoplectic. - I was in school a very long time ago, but in high school I was unwell a lot of the time and had to ride the bus about three hours every day. School finally exhausted me, although I didn't realize how much at the time; just knew I wanted OUT as soon as I got my diploma. Yes. I wish I could have been homeschooled or gone to a Christian school close to home.
Sounds like all the public school educators I know save one.
Instead, reverse psychology works rather well, especially if you use humor/wit.
So they think that we should put Saddam back in charge in Iraq, just go along with the gag by taking it one step further. Wink at them and say that Saddam is actually a U.S. citizen working for the CIA, and that we should bring him back to the U.S. to become President here.
That will force them to respond that it's a bad idea, that he's not a U.S. citizen, or one might even go off the rails with a comment that "he'd be better than Bush," etc.
And that's a good moment to let the whole matter drop rather than go into a verbal war when vastly outnumbered and on their turf...because they'll have to think about their disagreement with you later...and you will will have shocked a few of them into seeing the hypocrisy of not wanting Saddam in power here but wanting him in power over other people.
Think in advance of what you want to say, always with the goal in mind of humor and/or reverse psychology to such types.
They are *expecting* direct confrontation from you. Anger. Lashing out. Shouting. Turning and walking away. Flipping them off, etc.
Instead, you should laugh with/at them, and when you can employ reverse psychology (typically by simply exagerating one of their own claims), do so with a wink and a giggle.
And keep it brief. Speeches/rants are not effective in such situations.
Those teachers are moderate compared to the UW-Madison professors. Many of them even make Ward Churchill seem moderate.