(Part 2) Top products from r/BlueMidterm2018
We found 5 product mentions on r/BlueMidterm2018. We ranked the 25 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
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Show Reddit reviews22. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior (4))
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Hey there! To be honest, I don't know a whole lot about this specific issue although Evicted is on my reading list.
I agree with you on the educational point. The Republicans have completely overhauled how education is done in North Carolina over the past 7 years, this is a great overview. I'm not convinced that "choice" is the solution to our education woes.
My high school's district is actually drawn like you're proposing -- it pulls from both country clubs and housing projects. It was a formative experience, to be sure.
If you're interested in this topic, I'd recommend taking a look at San Francisco's school assignment process which is the solution they've taken to solve this problem. They've seen interesting externalities when implementing this, such as wealthy families opting out of the public school system altogether. (As an aside, this is what happened in my hometown when they desegregated schools in my hometown -- the wealthy families founded a private school with tuition so high that no black families could afford it).
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> If we can keep our energy and strategy going past 2018 (not abandoning the 50 state strategy next time we win POTUS would help a lot), doing all the above is very likely to get us a progressive SCOTUS by 2030.
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> "Twelve years away! That may as well be twelve hundred years away!" Well, that never deterred the conservatives who hated the way Brown v. Board of Ed went, and we're looking at a much shorter turnaround time than the six and a half decades it took them. It's worth fighting for.
I've really been inspired by the life of John Lewis. That is a guy who has been fighting for decades upon decades. He has seen this country go through so much progress, which so much left to do, but he's never given up. I highly recommend his latest book.
https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America/dp/080507774X
This is a great read on the subject.
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Don't Produce Responsive Government: A sober look at why our government is seemingly dysfunctional and many of the common myths and bad assumptions that people use to analyze politics.
If you've never read Pat Conroy book, "The Water is Wide", I highly recommend it if you aren't familiar with the immense struggles of inequality that SC children endure.
We do the exact opposite of what we should be doing. The larger the poverty rate, the larger the classes and less qualified the teachers are.
So how do we work to attack this problem head on? Do you have a plan in mind?
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