Stephen Ashcraft Editor
Sea Change and The Future of the Republic
Hope and Change without a Teleprompter in The States
Huddled in their once magical drumcircles on the rolling hills of their Alma Mater's common areas they dreamed of a government that gently blanketed it's people with the loving warmth of a benign principal.
One that protected the unwashed, unknowing masses from their ridiculous and subversive dreams of liberty. Sometimes a particularly loud drummer would stand and cajole the apostate independent citizenry for not realizing that this circle of enlightenment had figured out how to shield all from harm and strife, along with dreams of liberty and thoughts of speaking with a free voice.
These of the intellectually endowed set worshipped the elder professoria who bestowed jewels of enlightenment upon the circle. This tuition-fueled priesthood would confide to the circle the secrets of an Arcadia land just over the next hill that had achieved this collective, more or less. What breathless, sun filled afternoons these were...
Slumping awkwardly on the broken couch near the day old danish tray of an Illinois HoJo's, this band of once happy percussionists collectively wish for word from the priesthood, explaining why the citizens just won't listen to their brilliance. Between Oprah on the lounge TV and talk of European lessons to be taught to the persistently ignorant masses... Don't these serfs understand that here is the leadership class?
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Those pesky America citizens...
With Ohio and Wisconsin leading the way, conservative mostly republican leadership is painting the liberal left and their attack-dog union professional protesters as the true elite and it seems that according to the latest polls to be working.
Finally a very real attempt to regain the sanity in the budgets of States is getting real traction with America and posing a direct threat to the union grip on legislatures and school boards.
The democrat deserters of Wisconsin who ran away think that the fight isn't continuing without their cowardly presence. They are wonderfully mistaken. Let them sit in their huddles of hopelessness while they violate their respective state's constitutional directives to do the jobs the campaigned to win.
It makes you think that if there is a legal position for the governors to replace these absentee politicians with people that will show up and represent the taxpayers as a whole and not just the very special interest that funded much of their political ambitions that it should be well underway.
If herculean efforts aren't made very quickly, the states will begin the process of bankruptcy. This bankruptcy will negate these government contracts. The people win.
If these democrats thought they would be portrayed as fighting the good fight for sitting in a Howard Johnson's and trying to appear enlightened think they've won anything, I'm sure the next election will be an eye-opener.The people win.
Once the giant union checks filled with forced union dues dry up and the strong-arm tactics of the Union thug leaders suddenly aren't hanging around at the White House three days a week, equilibrium in the marketplace will resume, liberty will heal and the people will win.
Pay good teachers for good work-the people win.
Removing tenure and replacing it with merit-the people win.
Eliminate collective bargaining and the peer pressure/blackmail it inevitably creates-the people win.
Return control of schools to parents and local boards instead of Unions and State monoliths-the people win.
Shine the light on unfair practices, wasted funds and union cronyism-the people win.
To me this is a curiously optimistic time. Real change, not hollow sound bite teleprompter (sic) change is in the air, and it smells like hope.
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