Apparently the people at that meeting didn't see replacing the latest in a series of out-of-control ransom demands with a budget as overreach. That's because I was advocating for the fact that while there were mountains of data to show that continued increases in spending wouldn't lead to better education for the town's kids, there were good reasons to believe that a decrease spending might do exactly that. That point has been totally ignored in mainstream media accounts of the situation.
If it's overreach to try to do more with less, in order to help both the beneficiaries and benefactors in a situation, then I struggle to understand what the proper amount of reach would be.
Thank you for a well-written peek at the emotional battle to escape familiar but soul-crushing authoritarianism.
I suffered 40 years in the Authoritarian-49. I am sad I could not convince friends and family - certain of the necessary to be enslaved - that freedom is possible, desirable, and ethical, but I have no desire to leave a free state in New Hampshire, even to visit the pretty plantations.
The only disagreement I have is the broad characterization that many are finding themselves guilty of - That republican governments are inherently better than Democrat governments. NH being an anomaly, as our government is more a product of culture and intent than political party platform. Republican states such as Texas, and Florida, while good on COVID issues merely out of oppositional defiance, are equally as bad as Democrat states like Massachusetts and California, just on different issues.
Those who make excuses for the tyranny of Ron Desantis's approach to COVID as "ends justifying the means" will bear the pain of their approach when the tables eventually and inevitably turn and a democrat takes His seat in the future, with all the precedence of executive overreach he created to become a friendly tyrant.
I would invite anyone who thinks what I did was 'an overreach' to read the pamphlet that I handed out at the annual district meeting: https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/03/budget-or-ransom
Apparently the people at that meeting didn't see replacing the latest in a series of out-of-control ransom demands with a budget as overreach. That's because I was advocating for the fact that while there were mountains of data to show that continued increases in spending wouldn't lead to better education for the town's kids, there were good reasons to believe that a decrease spending might do exactly that. That point has been totally ignored in mainstream media accounts of the situation.
If it's overreach to try to do more with less, in order to help both the beneficiaries and benefactors in a situation, then I struggle to understand what the proper amount of reach would be.
Go Free State, let’s go Granite Republic!
Thank you for a well-written peek at the emotional battle to escape familiar but soul-crushing authoritarianism.
I suffered 40 years in the Authoritarian-49. I am sad I could not convince friends and family - certain of the necessary to be enslaved - that freedom is possible, desirable, and ethical, but I have no desire to leave a free state in New Hampshire, even to visit the pretty plantations.
The only disagreement I have is the broad characterization that many are finding themselves guilty of - That republican governments are inherently better than Democrat governments. NH being an anomaly, as our government is more a product of culture and intent than political party platform. Republican states such as Texas, and Florida, while good on COVID issues merely out of oppositional defiance, are equally as bad as Democrat states like Massachusetts and California, just on different issues.
Those who make excuses for the tyranny of Ron Desantis's approach to COVID as "ends justifying the means" will bear the pain of their approach when the tables eventually and inevitably turn and a democrat takes His seat in the future, with all the precedence of executive overreach he created to become a friendly tyrant.