Yeah, that’s what I was wondering. Especially when the principal indicated that without their action she couldn’t have done anything to prevent the visit.
@adampomata: had Cruz done anything to merit debate, and if he was willing to engage in discussion instead of stumping, I’d agree with you. His ongoing planned remarks push the divide buttons on his supporters’ calculators and these young people (I can’t call them kids) called him on it.
And @victorabrahamsen: this is one case where we can give a cheer to the Bronx without it being a Bronx cheer!
Because he thinks he’s white. An actual Anglo from Canada, not a you know what from Cuba. He hates the brown immigrants…'cause he is one! (Just ask any republican about people from Cuba)
People that hate themselves for what they are, shouldn’t be allowed to run for pres or hold office of any kind. These kind of creeps make horrible laws!
Is there any indication that the students would have had an opportunity to confront him? That doesn’t strike me as consistent with what I have seen so far from Senator Cruz.
“I don’t think that allowing a person or group to speak is an endorsement of that view and especially in an educational setting. I think it is important to uphold a free and open society and let people with opposing views make their case.”
Allowing someone to make their case is one thing, and Senator Cruz has had ample opportunity to do that, but standing and listening to him is going to be perceived, and used, by him and many observers, as evidence of support.
“Sen. Cruz is a sitting Senator and 2nd place Republican primary candidate and no matter what you think of him he is not part of the fringe.”
I disagree vehemently with that assessment of the value of those relatively minor aspects of his place in the current political scene. They are far outweighed by his attitudes, statements, and actions, which exemplify some of the worst aspects of today’s political scene.
Just because manure is a fact of life doesn’t mean that it deserves a prominent place in my living room, my social life, or any other aspect of my existence, except my internal workings, and my bathroom habits.
I agree with what you are saying about him Steviedee111 and that he is on the fringe of the Senate in terms of likability, loyalty, etc.
littlegirlblue pointed out that the timing and circumstances of his election worked in his favor - I’m taking it to mean that he could be thought of as a fringe candidate that got lucky.
I think he is to the right of the majority of Republicans, but all the same he hasn’t been recalled by the citizens of Texas or forced out by other members of the Senate (is that even possible?) and he is in second place for the Republican nomination.
So I think he is operating within mainstream politics in our country and not at the fringe.
So I think he is operating within mainstream politics in our country and not at the fringe.
The problem is that he is operating at the fringe, the fringe has just been granted a place at the table because the rest of us have been too polite to call it out for what it is. Completely unacceptable, repulsive ideas have been allowed a place at the table, lending them credence they don’t really have–or deserve–until it seems to the casual observer that such ideas have a merit they lack in reality. Forcibly calling these ideas out, vocally rejecting them, is something the mainstream has been loathe to do. To our detriment.
The students did not protest the right of Cruz to speak or shout him down as he tried to speak. They simply informed the principal that if Cruz were to speak at the Academy he would be addressing the empty chair Clint Eastwood left behind. To their credit, they honored other acts of civil disobedience by acknowledging "the consequences of our actions and [our willingness] to accept them.”
Students at a Bronx, New York high school said they would stage a walkout rather than stick around for a visit from Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who (sic.) they called “misogynistic, homophobic, and racist.”
Calling out Cruz or other conservatives by anyone on the Left/Progressive/Liberal/Democrat end of the spectrum draws little attention, as it’s expected. And those being called out wear it as a badge of honor. A more important group needing to criticize Wingnut extremism is people within the group. Republicans dressing down the zealots within their party is much more effective. When voters hears a Rob Portman call out Cruz for xenophobia or racism it has more clout than coming from Nancy Pelosi. Now, Republican Wingnuttia knows this. So, they slap down dissent with the threat of getting primaried in their next race. Suddenly a Senator or Representative in a safe GOP district is STILL having to raise funds for re-election, in quantities far greater than would have been needed to defeat a Democrat challenger. And the way the lizard brain GOP electorates can be whipped into a frenzy that primary challenge may very well be their undoing. So they keep their mouth shut and let the Ted Cruzs of the world stoke division and mayhem.
I grew up three hours away and have visited often over the years, but yep, plenty of people who’ve never been think it’s pretty alien. Of course there are plenty of people where I live who’ve never been to Philly, which is 30 miles away. Never been once. It’s crazy but that’s how some people are.
That’s exactly what happened. He got so very lucky because of missteps in scheduling the Texas primary that year, a very complicated story. He’s also benefitting in many quarters because of the disgust felt towards drumpf. Rs in California where I live are slowly coalescing around Cruz united by their fear of drumpf gaining the nomination and then not only losing the election but also scaring voters away from other Rs on the ticket.
