The American Freedom Network

Michigan: On the Road to Being a Failed State?

Both parties in Michigan have shown that they can’t govern. The state budget lurches from crisis to crisis, the Legislature saw fit to give themselves a 38% pay raise, and the Administration only knows how to manage sound bytes.
The Democrats, however, have decided that they can do one thing right: Wreck the Constitution with a Trojan Horse ballot proposal that will ensure that they stay i power. Hore’s how it works:
They start “Reform Michigan Now,” keep their involvement secret, gin up a ballot proposal that rewrites 13% of the Constitution, has some mad voter eye candy (Legislative pay cuts), and that delivers the Legislature and the courts to their control. The proposal would reduce the number of Senators and Representatives, put redistricting in the hands of an appointed committee 9guess who appoints?), eliminates some judgeships, and reduces the number of MI Supreme Court Justices from seven to five by eliminating the two least senior ones (both Republicans, naturally).
Hopefully, the word will get out, and the coup plotters will be exposed. The leader, Diane Byrum, a partisan hack who used to warm the seat representing my district, first as a Representative, then as a Senator, succeeded by her daughter, owns a hardware store in Charlotte. I plan to let her know that I won’t shop there, as I do regularly, should this abomination reach the ballot. I hoped that others do likewise – money is the only thing that her kind listens to!
From Aristotle to Stratfor.com, the definition of a failed state hasn’t changed: A failed state is one in which the rulers serve their own interests, not those of all, regardless if the form is autocratic, aristocratic, or republican. The Michigan democratic Party, even more so than the Michigan GOP, is out to serve itself, even if it means wrecking the Constitution in the process. Unlike other failed states, Michigan cannot hope for outside help to effect regieme change – our fate is in our own hands.