Thomas Frank: What's the Matter with Liberals?

[AGA]

Why does this post have the "New" tag?

[The Houstonian]

Why does this post have the "New" tag?

Someone made a new post in it since the last time you read it.

[WMS]

The quality of public school education in New Mexico hasn’t improved much since this thread.

The instance (yes, in the same meeting!) where one of my local school board members (my old high school principal!) said “only God can judge us” and another one of them (now a County Commissioner!) threatened to meet a critic in a dark alley, now that happened in the 2010s.

Albuquerque Public Schools is just an edifice to incompetence and arrogance

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Political discourse almost never changes, you could take this thread, change a few names, and nobody would be able to tell it's from 2005.

In some ways, this says less about natural persistence of political problems and more about the intransigence of the US system of governance between then and now. The paralysis of the process is slowly driving it to a breaking point as problems fester, untended. You can see it in the disillusionment of people like Jfern, and at the more extreme end the protests in the summer and at the Capitol.