The city spends between $11000 and $17000 per year, per student, (depending upon the source of the data) with 80% of the total provided by the State of Connecticut. Teacher's unions are opposed to school vouchers, maybe because they aren't bullet proof and they're hard to read with bloodstains.August, 2008: Following the city's West Indian Festival, in separate incidents, seven youngsters were shot. Among them, a 21-year old was killed, a 7-year old was shot in the head, and a toddler was shot in the leg. The city tried to enact a curfew but the ACLU intervened.
Beside the ACLU, the gargoyles on the ethical rubble of Hartford - and New Haven and Bridgeport, are the Democrats in the General Assembly and a liberal Republican governor. This is a deep blue state, as you might guess.
This time, after the West Indian Festival, they didn't even dispense the usual load of liberal crap; they were silent, the governor went on doing her PSA's for safer swimming pools, child safety seats, and the travail of 911 operators. The greasy Attorney General continued to sniff out the foul deeds of telephone marketers. The Democrat mayor was preoccupied with ethics charges.
Urban renewal, commencing in the early 1950's and rising every five years or so, zombie-like, renovated empty buildings, laid herringbone brick sidewalks; cleaned up the projects. Spotless Brutalist concrete in the jungles of despair is always the progressive solution to these problems. In the beginning, they destroyed the old ethnic neighborhoods, rustled up the inhabitants and herded them to the soul-desolating brick and sheetrock iron maidens of subsidized housing, the mocking monuments to what was destroyed.
Now the third generation of these bereft pawns of progressivism find relief in drugs and violence, in degenerate music, or prestige in an Acura with wheels like razor blades. There's no refuge from their practical plight, or in the tinsel of materialism and fraudulent promise that more, and even more, "education" or after-school programs will bring rational order from moral chaos.
Nothing will, nothing can, change without a life free of the governing madness of the reformer, freedom from a political class trying to minister to the contradictory demands of the spirit, mind and the body. Whenever, some time-serving monster in a legislative chamber exerts himself to make your life better, run away screaming, or leap to his throat. Do it early, because a generation down to road, it will be too late.
* The painting is Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son"
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Somewhere in this nation or world, these conditions will give birth to an attractive Conservative movement determined to break free of this death sentence.
It will lead some to a better place. Of course, such movements will draw the wrath of the Fascist politicians and media, dooming the uneducated and uninspired to intellectual serfdom.
I'm with you, Nickie. These are unstable times. Obamaism is reactionary, the effort to make something old and discredited into something new and valid. Liberalism is dystopian.
With Anita Dunn running around telling kids to worship Chairman Mao, I'd say you're spot on.
Dear lord this is messed up stuff. Well written too. Progressives...this is progress?
just chilling!
Rhod,
Reactionary. Absolutely right. I hate it when I hear it called radical. I AM radical, I actually believe in men, with faith. Quota Boy and ilk clearly do not. We are different, they are more of the old same. We believe men are not animals, they try to prove men are animals and raise that behavior as the goal.
But on to it. What bothers me about what is written is... that I expect it in some areas. That should never be expected. It should never occur, anywhere. Instead of not happening, it is being expanded. It is the very predictable outcome of the "works" of the people in power.
How it came to this, I will never be sure. Well, other than that Americans seem to have, like all those who have fallen before, decided God is not necessary. First it was out of schools, then businesses, then public life, and now quite often even out of private life. That IS Godlessness. It is man as animal.
Many of the toughest fighters in this battle are PARENTS, determined to keep a free Republic for their children. May we see success.
And people ask me why we homeschool. My question is why aren't they homeschooling? My children will be smart, well educated, Christians. They will know their history. They will understand freedom. They won't be victims in a "hood," or pre-programmed progressives. I cannot help but wonder about the battles they will have to fight in the country they inherit.
I'd like to hoist a processed meat BBQ sandwich to you, Arby. Good work. And Doom ... I swear, I think you are related to Rhod. Your comments are deadly-spot on.
Sir Rhoderick, I can see, almost feel, smell and hear the despair you describe. I think, as Nick notes, this creates a window of opportunity for us to turn the tide in our individual communities. That's where it happens ... small-unit tactics.
I hate to sound like the blog's literary critic, but I particularly enjoyed your crescendo to this: "Whenever, some time-serving monster in a legislative chamber exerts himself to make your life better, run away screaming, or leap to his throat."
Do you pass out like the Network guy at the end after lauching the final missile? Your conclusions are invariably sharp, in as many ways as one wishes to define the term.
I just got a thought. Vincent Price reading Rhod screeds would have been an amazing thing. Oh, what could have been.
DC, Vinnie read my Poe screenplay satire, "The Spit on the Pendulum", but he couldn't persuade Hammer Films or Sir Lew Grade to put up the cash.
But this is serious, DC, as you know. Doom points out, if I'm right, that liberalism is about Now, but a life well-lived, the alternative, is about Then, or eternity.
Remember, over at your blog, we had a nasty argument with some lib about what constitutes liberal "morality"? He didn't know, and even denied that the question mattered.
Somehow they think that we can't make decisions for ourselves...
Our schools are a pitiful example of why the government should be downsized and how it simply fucks everything up it touches..
Aw, you told everyone what the painting was. Now I can't sound erudite--but then I rarely do. Carry on.
Neither do I, cbullitt. But sometimes I'm lucky.
The bigger the town the sooner it happens. Watch out America ... it's coming to a town near you !
Thanks Rhod !
Anytime, Odie my friend.
". . .the soul-desolating brick and sheetrock iron maidens of subsidized housing . . ."
Wow.
When a word is worth 1,000 pictures.
QR, I watched them go up in my old hometown in CT in the 1950's. Within a couple years, the hatred the occupants felt for their surroundings showed everywhere. The old wood frame house neighborhoods were home, the planners' housing were warrens.
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