Common Core is on a lot of people's minds lately, and it seems that it hasn't inspired very many happy thoughts. Of all the eletist ideas we are now saddled with, it seems that this one has really sparked a firestorm of public disgust. But what I am going to attack here is the thinking behind Common Core, not the ill conceived program itself. You see, Common Core is a symptom of a disease that has afflicted government in general, and most dramatically, our federal government. The root cause of this disease is Progressivism's ideal which amounts to an idealized infatuation with top-down, elitist thinking. Our government has become so infested with "public servants" dedicated to the idea that the purpose of government is to guide the evolution of human society that it no longer represents the interests of the people. Indeed, we see in Common Core a prime example of the greatest danger our democratic republic has ever faced. That danger is a government so powerful that it has the ability to produce people of, by, and for the government regardless of what the general populace might want. It is time for a revolution in the way we think about governance. Lets return to the ideals that made our country great. Lets remove the elitist scoundrels at every level of government and make our government answerable to the people, not to the self-appointed social engineers who have hijacked it. This fall, please vote for the kind of change that will make the elitist social engineers' rue the day they came to Washington.
