[verga]

So long as wintertime is extorted to pay the bills of the public schools or whatever most are, she gets to complain. We call it the First Amendment and it guarantees freedom for the speech that offends even tax-pampered gummint employees. In fact, that was probably the founders' exact intention.

My problem with wintertime has nothing to do with freedom of speech, it is abuse of freedom of speech. The founders never intended that freedom to be absolute., ie yelling fire in a crowded theater.

wintertime has established a pattern of:

1) referring to the entire public school system as evil.

2) referring to public school employees as leftists, Marxist, and useful idiots.

She is certainly entitled to hold these views. Since there are a number of us that as public school employees are conservatives, are not Marxists, and have IQ's higher then 90, she is not entitled to use the label of ALL.

By her own admission she refuses to work within the system to make improvements. She has not run for a school board not done anything else to reform the system.

As a matter of fact her action of removing conservatives from the system virtually assures the liberals a louder voice.

Quite frankly some one needs to take her aside and let her know that these fanatical views of hers paint the conservative movement in a bad light and make our work more difficult.

As long as she continues to label us ALL with such a broad sweeping brush I will call her on it.

When I view her posts as abusive I will ask to have them removed and when she is over the top I will ask to have her banned.

[wintertime]

*referring to public school employees as leftists, Marxist, and useful idiots.

*Since there are a number of us that as public school employees are conservatives, are not Marxists, and have IQ’s higher then 90, she is not entitled to use the label of ALL.
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Lenin is credited with inventing the term “Useful Idiot”. It has nothing to do with IQ. In fact the “Useful Idiots” who enabled and promoted the Bolsheviks very likely had very **high** IQs. Many were journalists, in theater, some in government, and in other social positions of power.

I recommend the Wikipedia site. It has a very nice explanation of the term “Useful Idiot”. I mention this because from your post it seems that you think the term “Useful Idiot” somehow implies retardation or low mental capacity. When referring to Marxism it most certainly does not mean this.