JIMMY STEWART REALLY SCREWED AMERICA...POLITICALLY
Over the last seven years as I have become more and more embroiled in conflict with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the reaction to my allegations of endemic corruption of this public education bureaucracy has consistently been met from my American friends and colleagues with the same response, "I can't believe." It usually stays this way until the non-believing teacher or somebody they know or love is themselves targeted for early expiration by the morally challenged people purposefully running public education into the ground for money and the further dumbing down of America- it's hard to rule, as opposed to govern when citizens actually have an education and know their rights and obligations under the constitution.
On the other hand, when I mentioned what is going on at LAUSD to my Italian now ex-wife, she matter of factly had a different take, "In Italy, we know government and anything having to do with it is corrupt, so we stay as far away from it as possible...why would you think any different?" This is where Jimmy Stewart screwing me up comes in. I was raised watching his movies like, It's A Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," and in those movies and other like them, the good guys always win in the end. The message was that as the children of immigrants who came to this country to