Is this what life in America will be like going forward?
If President Barack Obama can’t get his way with Congress, he takes action by executive order. If United Auto Workers can’t get a foothold at Volkswagen with an up-and-down vote of employees, it plots with the willing car maker to make the union the representative of workers at the plant anyway. If a group of people don’t like the decisions made by grand juries, they cry foul and perpetrate violence.
The current presidential administration has taken this 180-degree turn on the innate fairness Americans used to be able to count on to a new level, but, if we’re honest, we’ve all seen it coming.
We see it in the Little League baseball dad who leaves the stands to argue with the 17-year-old umpire — who is being paid $10 a game — about the “out” call the umpire made on his 7-year-old son.
We see it in the mom who, until now, hasn’t had much interest in her fifth-grade daughter’s work but who marches directly into the classroom and confronts the teacher who had dared to give her child a “D” on a project.