If your POV as an elected official is "fighting bad policy doesn't work", you have no business being an elected official

‪I loathe how parking garage entrances/exists use the sidewalk. Sidewalks are for pedestrians. There should be retractable bollards in front of every parking garage that makes it impossible to turn into one while a pedestrian is in front. ‬

The lack of directional signage is terrible - DOT should do better.

But Morton is also a tiny street. Slow down. Look around. If not sure about which way the street goes, slow down till you're sure!!

I think I've driven out/in of that garage once a few years ago with a rental car. It made me tense, so I had to go super-slow. Which was appropriate.

I also recall the whole area had small, one-way streets, which also made me tense, so I went super-slow. Which was appropriate.

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"And we're not willing or able to get them to understand the root of the problem, so we just fold.

We're not leaders. Leading is not our job."

The simplest explanation for the behavior of the "centrist" Democratic leaders is that they believe the US right now - with massive inequality, problems of unaffordability, and persistent bigotry - is about right.

They don't want progress in these areas.

As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the . This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.

Almost completely, every single problem with higher education that folks think is mainly about something else is <primarily> about the massive decline in state public funding since the 1980s. Yes, including everyone's obsession with getting their kid into the "right" college:

4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).

3/ One of the two panels described how a million African-Americans volunteered for service during World War II, but had to fight against both the enemy and racism on their own side, including segregation within the army itself that confined many to supporting roles.

They don't want progress in these areas.

Sure, they don't want things to get worse, but recent progressive electoral victories are frightening to them as well.