{"id":89371,"date":"2025-03-12T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89371"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:07:01","slug":"no-seriously-dont-ever-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89371","title":{"rendered":"No, Seriously.  Don&#8217;t Ever Change."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Namecalling during the 2024 Presidential election turned out not to be a &#8220;wonder weapon&#8221; for the left. <\/p>\n<p>Turns out bullying, castigating and defaming people doesn&#8217;t win them over.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lesson most people learn by middle school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/st-paul-teachers-union-president-calls-republicans-authoritarian-and-fascist\/\">Minnesota left still hasn&#8217;t learned it<\/a>, oddly enough:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Submitted: St. Paul Federation of Teachers President issues statement as President Trump takes steps to dissolve Education Department:<br><br>Referring to republicans as \u201cauthoritarian\u201d and a \u201cfacist regime.\u201d <br><br>\u201cOur union will not comply\u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/51x7RZ27Dw\">pic.twitter.com\/51x7RZ27Dw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Liz Collin (@lizcollin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizcollin\/status\/1897653188733620683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>VanDassor, a Highland Park Middle School teacher, was first elected president of SPFE in 2021. Her union is a <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/st-paul-teachers-asked-to-spend-weekend-canvassing-for-democrats-in-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">champion<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/spps-teachers-parents-members-letter-004000860.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-wing<\/a> causes, including \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spfe28.org\/teaching-and-learning\/restorative-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restorative practices<\/a>,\u201d which are a \u201cmodel for a healthy, racially equitable school culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her statement, she said that SPFE members \u201cwill continue to do what we have always done: care for and educate ALL of our students. Feed them. Keep OUR schools safe for them. Teach them the full history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VanDassor asserted that \u201cfascist regimes\u201d always begin by \u201ctargeting the most vulnerable populations and by making it a crime to tell the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmm.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89373\">Making it a crime to tell the truth, you say<\/a>?  Huh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping they never learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namecalling during the 2024 Presidential election turned out not to be a &#8220;wonder weapon&#8221; for the left. Turns out bullying, castigating and defaming people doesn&#8217;t win them over.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#8217;s a lesson most people learn by middle school. The Minnesota left still hasn&#8217;t learned it, oddly enough: Hmm. Making it a crime to tell the truth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89382,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89371\/revisions\/89382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}