the end result of liberal insanity

[Хahar 🤔]

I haven't found that my politics have changed significantly over the course of the pandemic, but I have certainly lost confidence in teachers' unions. Their involvement in the political process over the last year and a half has consistently been to impede the learning process. It's not hard to think that this is an issue that both sides have, with teachers' unions on one side and police unions on the other.

The difference is that we know what police unions are like everywhere, because police unions in every big city elect the same cretins to represent them. As far as I can tell, the direction of the Los Angeles union is not the norm; the article notes that the current leadership took control of the union relatively recently and has only ever won on minuscule turnout.

That being said, the rhetoric here is clearly very dangerous. The quote in the tweet, which claims that actual education is meaningless compared to the permanent revolution, is straightforwardly Maoist. I imagine that the president of the Los Angeles teachers' union has never described herself as a Maoist, but that hardly matters. These people's beliefs are repulsive to normal people, and so the only way they can win is through entryism, as seems to have happened here. The blood quantum rhetoric described in the article itself is also appropriate, since marshaling ethnic nationalism is a useful way to pull the discussion away from any tangible questions of actual education.

In the long run I think that the leadership of this union will be defeated; a militant police union can protect the right of its members to rob and kill as they please, but a militant teachers' union focused on creating a classless society will not accomplish much for its membership. The question is how much damage it can do before then.