Looking at the GOP's platform...

There is popular ideological dispute - which platform is better? Democratic or Republican? Which values, which ideas are more relevant?

Well, today I learned that this dispute is moot. There is no Republican platform. I am not kidding. Last Republican convention wasn't able to decide/vote for one.

The Link that says "Learn more about our Platform" leads to the Republican party rules (that is, how to elect committee members), not the platform (positions and ideas). Bait-and-switch.

(Trump also didn't have any platform for his re-election bid, but in his case the expectations were low to begin with.)



The conclusion is simple - the word Republican has no meaning now. What kind of common ideas do you represent if you call yourself a Republican? Being hawkish with Moscow? Being friends with Putin? Freedom of business? Regulating business? Decreasing taxes? Increasing taxes (preferably for blue states, of course, but still)? Individual freedoms? Banning books and regulating bodily autonomy?

Being a Republican now means all that and more - that is, it means nothing. I cannot fix it. Democrats and independents cannot fix it. Only Republicans can do it.

Will they? Your guess is as good as mine.

Chronicles of cancelling - Florida strikes again

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-principal-out-after-viewing-of-michelangelos-david-upsets-parents_n_641c621ee4b0fef15248d867

The principal of Florida’s Tallahassee Classical School is out of a job after parents complained that their sixth-grade children were shown Michelangelo’s 16th century “David” sculpture, with one parent calling it “pornographic,” the Tallahassee Democrat first reported.

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The board of the charter school decided Monday to give the principal the choice to resign or be fired after less than a year in the job. She was the school’s third principal since it opened in the fall of 2020, per the Tallahassee Democrat.