Who does your local, deeply committed, compassion filled progressive care about? #1

The poor?  The weak?  The vulnerable?  Outsiders?  Fat fucking chance.  Here's a current example from New York City:  First in the nation and first in the hearts of....the teacher's unions.  Bobby Jindal explains:

In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio has embarked on a systematic campaign to destroy the city’s burgeoning charter school movement. He’s diverting more than $200 million in funding marked for charter schools, and has also thrown hundreds of students out of their promised school buildings. He has also declared his intent to nullify arrangements that allow charters to locate in existing public schools rent-free.

The mayor’s open warfare against Eva Moskowitz, who founded a network of 22 charter schools, has all the markings of a petulant tyrant holding low-income students hostage. De Blasio has said, “There’s no way in hell Eva Moskowitz should get free rent” — as if the 6,700 students in the charter schools she runs were a mere afterthought in his personal vendetta against a fellow Democrat.

And they do a much better job:

In New York, four in five charters outperformed comparable public schools in recent state tests; Moskowitz’s schools scored in the top 1 percent in math, and top 7 percent in English. In the president’s hometown of Chicago, one network of charter schools boasts a college graduation rate three times the average of Chicago public schools.

Its progressive to love and serve the powerful!

Heck, even if they didn't do any better than the public schools they do it with vastly less money per student.  We could shift the entire nation to charters and privates and rebate half of the money we spend - no, I mean waste on K-12 education.  Which is why DeBlasio is smashing the charters.  They threaten the progressive money conveyor from taxpayers to bloated public institutions to public employee unions and contractors to the oh so progressive Democrat party.

And only few short weeks ago DeBlasio was inaugurated to the Hosannas of elites everywhere, CNN covered his bloody inauguration live and Bill Clinton - no mean judge of power - spoke at it.  And that's it, isn't it?  Behind the yelps for progress is the cold, cruel hunger to dominate, punish, coerce, rule.  Because when it comes to NYC Education and Bill DeBlasio Il Duce's old dictum rules:

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state

 It's all so progressive.

PS:  and if you say "well our local Dems don't do that" you're forgetting that the modern 'progressive' Democrat party is run almost exclusively by people from the northeast and Northern California with PR managed by big media.  That's where the money, the energy and the functionaries are from.  Just ask West Virginians what happens to loyal Democrats who no longer fit in.  Or for that matter, ask all of those poor minority kids who were just evicted from their schools.

Here's another classic example of progressive partnership with powerful economic interests to the detrimient of the 'little ones'.