If you wanted to complain about Randi Weingarten, I wouldn't be needling you; I'd be quietly upvoting you. But that's not what you're doing. The mainstream Democratic party, the part of it that controls all the votes in all but the bluest districts in the country (even in San Francisco!) agrees with a lot of what you're saying. All I'm asking you to do is to recognize that fact, and to stop painting with this giant paint roller of a brush that you're using. If you suck all the nuance out of these issues, we're left with a battle between soon-to-be-recalled leftist school board dilettantes and deranged militia LARPers beating Capitol police with fire extinguishers. There's nothing interesting, or useful, or, for HN, appropriate about that debate.