"Rise of the American Nitwit"

Remember it! Write it down! Record it! Someday you'll tell your great grandchildren you were present when elected officials, school administrators, and parents chose illiteracy and ignorance over literacy and intelligence.

Never in my 42 years have I witnessed Americans attack education with such venom, ferocity, and the macabre that they make Ted Bundy look like a stand up guy.

In Pennsylvania, Governor Corbett took a chainsaw to education and defunded higher education with such vicious precision--even Leather Face would have found it heart wrenching to watch.

But Governor Corbett is one of many elected officials that provide the wealthy and corporations with free-bees and tax breaks while stripping the middle class, working poor, and poor of much needed services all the while having the audacity to say we must all sacrifice. What are you sacrificing, Sir?

I said this before--education should never be laid on the operating table of budget cuts, pure and simple. Yet, education and social service programs are always the first to be devoured by elected officials with such apathy that it would've made Jeffrey Dahmer become a vegetarian.

As we continue to see the rise of the "American Nitwit" and the demise of the Republic's once love affair for scholarship, our nation continues to resemble the poor man's version of Europe's Dark Ages.


"Progressives will bring balance to the Republic."
Anthony P. Johnson

"The People vs. the People"

Only when the citizenry demands that elected officials be accountable can the government be effective in serving the will of the people.

Accountability and integrity in journalism can reign once more, but only when citizens break the "shackles of media mediocrity" by demanding that 24/7 news cycles report truthful, fair, and balanced news and zealously fact check elected officials who maliciously give erroneous information.

When citizens don't participate in the electoral process--a privilege that was obtained only after the sacrifice of millions of American lives--you not only dishonor the dead, but you also dishonor the living.

Because of political and social apathetic ideology, we've created a political cartoonist's version of a nation in which the government is the antagonist and the people are the protagonist. However, if you take a longer look in the mirror, you begin to see the government that many citizens despise is actually the "people" themselves. No matter how one may disagree with bloated, greedy, career-elected officials, they were elected through the Republic's political process that can be truly effective when able-bodied Americans can vote. And for those that can vote but are not registered to vote--register!

We still reside in a country where the "government of the people, by the people and for the people" is the foundation that stubbornly binds America to its people.



"Progressives will bring balance to the Republic"
Anthony P. Johnson