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Continuing with the discussion, let me report to you what often happens on the inside of many of these political planning meetings in campaigns, party, or independent organizations: To varying degrees, committees meet, plans are drafted, events are held, and when it’s all over, still not enough voters have been impacted.

We’re at flood tide when it comes to the amount of fantastic materials available to anyone who wants to understand the health care reform debate. Truly it is a thing of beauty to watch countless issue advocacy organizations sending out top shelf analysis.

If you want it in brief, you can find it summed up in dozens of places. If you want to delve deeper, there are books and white papers and detailed plans with explanations of why the Democrats’ path to health care reform is exactly the wrong path to follow.

Continuing with our look at Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), it’s important to note that NPD isn’t an affliction suffered just by candidates but also by activists.

Author Jay Richards recently gave a talk on a different subject at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. and used a line that applies nicely to our topic.

Here’s an excerpt from a note I received just yesterday:

“Most of us cannot stomach politics. We’re watching what appears to be the rapid disembowelment of our country – and it’s not easy to stay ‘checked in’ to it all. I’m not surprised that others are staying checked out. Not that I don’t care anymore but it’s all just too horrible to watch without a game plan of some sort. People are busy with their lives but need to get involved. But what’s the plan?

Every so often, the newly sworn in President Barack Obama said back on January 20th, the oath of office “is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.” Setting aside Obama’s attempt to improve on the famous “dark and stormy night” line by fiction writer Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the first six weeks of Obama’s presidency has ushered in just the kind of change people weren’t exactly hoping for.

At its core, the discussion of the “local control of the public schools” is about what is supposed to be the healthy operation of the democratic process. Unfortunately, the process is far from healthy. What, after all, does it mean to be local and who has the controls?

If federal and state union bureaucrats, for example, exert their powers during local teacher contract negotiations and the locally elected school board members are over-whelmed and concede to their demands, is that really local control at work?