And Its About Time Already
By: Candace Shaw
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Presidential hopeful #MikePence 'winning'
this week as he liberates Hoosiers from their
First Amendment rights.
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In a strong arm maneuver
with the goal of further emancipating Hoosier voters of their thoughts,
choices, and time, Governor Pence and his education reform minions in the State
House Education Committee passed legislation that would remove Glenda Ritz as
the duly elected Chairman of the State Board of Education in favor of granting
control of the Board to one of his political appointees.
And thank goodness,
because I was beginning to think that Governor Pence just wasn’t getting all of
those letters I wrote about how un-American it is to be bothered with voting,
that most of us backwoods rednecks just aren’t educated enough to choose
leaders at the State level. After all, I did attend and matriculate from the
Indiana public school system, the great failure that it is: what could I ever
know about freedom, representative government, and education?
From a strategic
standpoint, it is a heck of a lot easier to move indiscriminately forward with the
Koch, Bush, and Walton family’s education reform agenda without having even one
person in power that might actually know a little bit about public education.
Really – who wants to get in the way of egregious political pandering to
well-moneyed interests of such contemporary geniuses as those that brought us
all-day pay one price passes on a flying luge, Texas oil-men accents for New Englanders,
and lead-based toys imported from China? America would be stuck in a cultural
abyss if it weren’t for the likes of these elephantine children that were born
with a silver-spoon in their mouth.
At the end of the day,
we all know that those wily Founding Fathers must have been wearing their
powdered wigs a little too tightly when they ascribed to archaic and misguided
philosophies from the Age of Reason that advocate robust debate, freedom of
speech, and an elected representative government. Now if we could just convince Pence to solve this liberal media problem, we all would be able to breath a little easier knowing that we don't have to worry our pretty little heads about the First Amendment anymore.
