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

Re: Sorry to spoil the fun, but...

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

The Fed is not Goldman Sachs, first.

Sure, I guess some people actually don't think the Fed (or whatever other oligarch) is accountable to anyone, but I think most thinking people, even foreigners, recognize that accountability ends exactly where the printed currency begins.

And I think that's where they're completely wrong. Accountability and money aren't really related, if I'm reading the complaint properly.