Last edited Mon Nov 5, 2012, 03:39 AM - Edit history (1)
covering it. The Seattle Times, our local rag both support 1240 (& as one local blogger has documented, the Times is suppressing counter-evidence).
Most people don't have the time or inclination to dig.
I've found that rather than rebut the arguments in the false paradigm presented by the media (schools getting worse, 'bad teachers,' 'bad schools,' etc), which gets you bogged down in minutia (sp?), it's best just to cut to the chase: wall street, finance capital, education for profit, and your local tax dollars being siphoned away to support the global monied classes.
Yesterday I converted a romney voter on this issue. I was very surprised at how receptive he was to the global capital/privatization argument -- when presented as a loss of control over local resources and a triumph of big capital over local people.
But I have a bad feeling that 1240 is going to pass.
There is no way to fight this stuff except with boots on the ground, getting out & talking to people, sponsoring educational events at the local level, going in & talking to college kids, citizens' groups, etc. and recruiting more people willing to put some unpaid time in. And I really don't think it takes that much money, but it does take a good organization that's really dedicated to going to the grassroots.
No one with money is interested in creating such an organization. Not the major parties, not (apparently) what's left of the 'left'.
and (on edit) the far right is taking over the anti-corporate rhetoric that is properly the territory of the left. An anti-corporate video whose talking heads = ron paul, pat buchanan, edward griffin:
I am getting weimar vibes regularly these days.
= new reply since forum marked as read