This is just to say
I have squandered
the hard won gains
that were in
the contract
and which
you were probably saving
along with tenure and seniority rights
Forgive me
it was politically expedient
so simple to get you rubes to vote for
and so likely to get me that DC gig
with apologies to William Carlos Williams
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
~Noam Chomsky
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