What has been done to MI is criminal, and WI. These people are what created communities. But they are outvoted.
In my blue state, the voters just bought into the propaganda and approved charters to start up, which will in time destroy the public schools. They have been working on the public mind for years, with lies and distortions, nitpicking every single thing about the schools, and cutting taxes again and again.
The ones who are always voting to cut taxes are in the wealthier, more religious, government hating red districts. I suspect this happened in MI is going on in WI.
They have equal representation in the legislature and they are refusing to pass any taxes. They are selling off everything in the budget crunch they engineered.
They are the voices who are mocking everything Democrats do in their districts, and media has helped them all the way.
Democrats here believed that our sucessful students were all the advertising needed to keep things going and didn't look for this so called 'reform.' It is being pushed on them by monied forces who are set on destroying the commons.
And no one listens to us when we run for office and want to continue our New Deal ideas that worked for generations. We are still participating, we are still involved.
But we don't have a voice in the media, not one, and the voters take their cue from that. We went en masse to protest and give information when Michael Powell's FCC came to town as they finalized media consolidation in a few hands.
And it continues, and we keep running our progressive folks, and we can't match the out of state money the tea baggers have coming in. So it's hard to hold our heads up in the face of constant deridement and insults bred by media.
But we have no choice, we have to adapt. We'll keep on supporting our public schools, keep on voting to pay for them, but in every single election, we come close to loss. No one in the GOP or Libertarians want to pay for public education. None.
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