Abolish School Teachers' Lounges? — Supposedly Reasonable Ohio Governor John Kasich Spouted this Anti-Union BS in a Joke — which Makes One Wonder How Our Republican 2016 Presidential Candidates Dress Themselves without Assistance

© 2015 Peter Free

 

20 August 2015

 

 

There is (evidently) no place too low for Republican Party malevolence to stoop

 

Reflect briefly on this — from 2016 Republican presidential candidate John Kasich:

 

 

It was the kind of smart-aleck remark that Ohioans have grown accustomed to from Gov. John Kasich:

 

“If I were, not president, but if I were king of America, I would abolish all teachers’ lounges, where they sit together and worry about ‘woe is us.'"

 

But with Kasich rising in the presidential polls, his joke at a pro-school-choice education summit in the nation’s first primary state — even though it was not nearly as pointed as anti-union comments by the other five candidates present — was jumped on by numerous national reporters, drawing sharp reactions from across the country.

 

© 2015 Darrel Rowland, John Kasich jokes he wants to abolish teacher lounges, talks unions, Columbus Dispatch (19 August 2015) (paragraph split)

 

So, Governor — under your Regal Administration — schools would be blueprinted without conference rooms of any kind?

 

The people shall not gather together?

 

 

Camouflaged as a joke — of course

 

The problem with Governor Kasich’s sense of humor is that it treats unions’ aspiration to effectively compete against the oligarchy that runs the country as somehow outside the pale.

 

In Republican Ville, people outside the Economic Elite automatically become Government’s enemy.

 

 

In our jokes, they shall know us

 

A brainier politician — or (arguably) a simply decent human being — would not have offered or even thought of this mean-spirited attempt at humor.

 

 

The moral? — Achieving the Plateau of Sheer Stupidity would be a noticeable step up for the entire Republican 2016 presidential candidate slate

 

If only God could force them listen to themselves.