Vivek and the Elephant in the Room

In government, the people are led by the nose, while their representatives are led by the wallet. I’d like to look at how this plays out in two very different areas of our lives.
So let’s talk about old Vivek. Nice guy. He says he’s going to fire one million bureaucrats. I have some thoughts on this issue. We see the same thing happening also in our public schools. Principals complain they are stuck with bad teachers because it takes so much paperwork to fire them. The push is to weaken teachers’ unions so principals can easily fire ineffective teachers. As always there is no back-story, no mention of how this claimed problem developed or any alternate perspective. There is only one way to look at it. Now, I’m a lifelong teacher and I can tell you, schools are not designed to free minds but to imprison them. The outdated information in a textbook does nothing to develop hearts and minds. Martim Luther King said “…intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” Teachers themselves are the greatest influence on kids. Kids grow and broaden their awareness through contact with adults who are mature, capable, generous, and knowledgeable. Good examples are the most significant thing schools can contribute to human development. So in the name of improving education, why do we always blame teachers, as if their work environment is irrelevant? Why does the result take us go farther and farther in the wrong direction?
The way politicians operate is to create a problem…never, never a solution. First create a problem, then present a knee-jerk solution that is in reality what the politicians’ handlers wanted all along. Making it easier for principals to fire “ineffective teachers” is a classic example of this. The first step is to make the true goal of teaching, as outlined above, almost impossible. Load teachers with too many students, too many requirements, too many limitations. Then measure “success” according to ridiculous standardized tests. Finally, when students prove they are not machines, when they show that they still have a shred of innate intelligence and humanity, that’s the principal’s excuse to fire the teacher and replace them with some green-haired idiot. The claimed solution doesn’t improve education, it advances the real corporate objective, to produce a herd of powerless workers who can give the required answer, but who are incapable of seeing the real questions in life. True education would spread power among the population. False education consolidates power in the hands of the rotten few, and their trusted fools.
This brings us back to old Vivek. He claims he’s gonna solve America’s problems by firing one million bureaucrats. Let’s think about it: Where do they work? Department of Education? Department of Energy? Food and Drug Administration? Those organizations were created to control industries, protect the land and the people from ruthless corporate greed. But in the years since Reagan, in particular, these for-the-people government agencies have been prevented from doing their jobs…Food and Drug Administration used to test new foods, new additives, new drugs. Congress said no, we’ll just let the manufacturers do the testing…save the taxpayers’ money. Call it smaller government. Well, we have recently seen the effect of this policy, haven’t we? Fire one million people whose job is to protect the people. Now who’s left on our side? Sold-out politicians whose main concern in life is accumulating frequent flyer miles to Epstein’s new island, wherever that is…Maui, maybe?
No, folks, what’s needed is real public servants in all corners of government, people to who want to do their jobs. Instead we have a congress of clowns, doing what they’re told by the elephant in the room, the corporations who profit from your misery, your vulnerability, your confusion. But it’s not about profit anymore. They already have all the money. It’s just power. The more power they get, the worse we live. They choose to harm the people, not serve. Vivek has shown his hand: he’s just another clown, making sweet promises before the election. If he was anything else he wouldn’t be permitted to take part in the Rino “debates.” If he was like Trump he’d be treated like Trump, or like Robert Kennedy Jr. If he could be trusted, he wouldn’t be in the news at all.
So we the people are up against a wall that Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower allowed to be built, a wall that John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy tried to tear down. If you get a chance to vote, vote for a fighter. Vote for the long shot. But we the people have to be fighters. Don’t just sit around waiting for permission to vote in another rigged election. The very fact that Trump and Kennedy are being actively silenced is the outer layer of the rigging. Any “election” with no meaningful choice is already rigged. Fight it. And the first way to fight is to write to your senators, write to your representative. The people are more powerful than the corporations, but only if they speak. If you do nothing, you get straight A’s. You’re a perfect product of a rotten education system. If you are able to see what’s needed, if you speak and keep speaking, you get an F…for Freedom.