"What is new here is that [Michigan] has decided that local elections, locally elected officials are a problem that has to be done away with, that democracy is in the way of fixing problems in the United States now, of making things more efficient, particularly in poor places. Not that democracy is the way we fix problems but that democracy is the problem and it therefore needs to be sidestepped for efficiency sake, for our own good. Governor knows best.
The point here, what makes Benton Harbor a national story and Katherine Ferguson Academy a national story is that the whole idea of choice for them anymore is purely hypothetical. The state has chosen for them. And that they've got is, frankly, that aforementioned dictator. Their hope -- their one hope -- is the dictator is benevolent.
Is that how we think problems should get solved in America now?" Rachel Maddow
I think it was also Rachel who wondered out loud what the Republicans would say if President Obama were to dissolve the state government of, say, Michigan or Texas or Florida or Arizona or South Carolina.
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