Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Perception Over Reality...
...is a way of life here in California. Never have I seen it more starkly than in the precipitous drop in approval rating the Govenator has been experienceing. Being a man, Arnold is taking responsibility. I just hope he knows how to fix it.
The democratically controlled legislature, with their very powerful allies in the teachers union, have been able to paint him as the bad guy, when in reality he is the only one looking at the hard problems the state has and trying to address them. the reason I am concerned is that most people here don't really have much care for reality -- they tend to deny it at every turn. That is, unless the crisis hits them personally, as the power crisis did a while back which is how Arnold got the job to begin with.
He's done a great job of solving the immediately crisis' -- but now he has to fix the systemic problems out of which they arose, and that means a lot of profligate spenders are going to suffer, but they won't go down without a fight. It's time for the grass roots California Republicans to get busy.
The democratically controlled legislature, with their very powerful allies in the teachers union, have been able to paint him as the bad guy, when in reality he is the only one looking at the hard problems the state has and trying to address them. the reason I am concerned is that most people here don't really have much care for reality -- they tend to deny it at every turn. That is, unless the crisis hits them personally, as the power crisis did a while back which is how Arnold got the job to begin with.
He's done a great job of solving the immediately crisis' -- but now he has to fix the systemic problems out of which they arose, and that means a lot of profligate spenders are going to suffer, but they won't go down without a fight. It's time for the grass roots California Republicans to get busy.
