Forum Overview :: ELECTION WATCH 2016 :: So the New Yorker says the House is like the Texas school board, and the senate

[quote name="goatfuck newbie"]leadership is cheerleading this shit for party-related reasons I guess. There's an analogy I can't help but grope toward here, but it may well be a bullshit comparison. You tell me if it's retarded, shouldn't take up much time. It's about a Texas board of education and its influence on textbooks. Here's an article about how it went down after it all got straightened out right before I tell you the fucking narrative: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/revising-the-revisionaries-the-texas-board-of-ed-loses-its-power-over-textbooks So the deal was that California is huge but divided in terms of what its school districts bought for their institutions, so Texas was the single largest unified market in the country; their policies and regulations determined the lion's share of what textbook publishers printed and sold to the market at large because it was what their biggest customer wanted and so they were able to impact not just standards in their state but what many districts/states around the country were sold because the publishers didn't want to shoulder the cost of developing another product if they could avoid it, competition brings down prices, race to the bottom style if you like. Eventually the Texas board got its shit kicked in when their power was assigned somewhere else, but they were controlled by a group of undereducated motherfuckers who could aptly be described as a political minority in that they kept defining periods of American and global history according to the bible and NPR ate it right up just before I stopped listening to them. If the stranglehold these guys had on policymaking is anything like the stranglehold the fucking New Yorker article linked above claims the far right has on the legislature now that they've created something like the advantage of a unified bloc with redistricting, then the only places to look to for a response that restores party discipline are the right's national committee and the leadership on the left. The republican national chairman is some guy praised for his tea party involvement this last election cycle and the democratic chairwoman is some Jewish shrew from Florida, a state capable only of electing fuckups to its gubernatorial seat, so I guess we can all collectively grease our assholes for another round as the prison bitch.[/quote]