Dick Morris Comes Out and Says It

[paft.livejournal.com]

Dick Morris on Sean Hannity, 2/28/11:

We may at long last have a way to liberate our nation from the domination of those who should be our public servants but instead are frequently our union masters and free our politics from their financial power…What is at stake here really is freeing our schools so that we could keep good teachers and fire bad ones, freeing our state government so we don’t have high local taxes (and exactly how are those good teachers going to be paid?) and obliterating the financial power base of the Democratic Party.

The money quote is underlined above. This attack on collective bargaining is not about helping kids. It’s about establishing what amounts to a one-party system. Eliminate the power of unions and the G.O.P., with its corporate backing, gets to run things pretty much unopposed.

These people do not grasp the most basic principle of an open society – equal access to the political process as a voter and as a candidate.

Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes

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Comments

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Very true. I just can't figure out what these people are paying attention to, because it doesn't bear much resemblance to what's happening.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Like I said, 'what is happening' is subject to your entirely subjective interpretation - and everyone else's.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

No, because facts are objective.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Their interpretation could be diametrically the opposite, depending who's doing it. This case is a very good example.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

It could be the opposite. That would make it wrong, though. We need to be okay with saying people are wrong.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

I love your passion, and here is the place to wish you good luck with fighting windmills.