Without compromise, extremism dominates
from The Ron Show Hosted by Ron Roberts
Georgia's Department of Family & Childres Services were accused - in a Senate subcommittee hearing today - of seeking permission to detain special needs kids in the foster system. DETAIN. The state with the $11.7 billion (or more) surplus, with a stretched-thin DHS system and inadequate facilities for the special needs community, has a foster system looking to "detain" kids as a temporary (or is it?) solution. Let that sink in. Political hyperbole is festering between the parties, inside the parties and it's made for just the weirdest snapshot in American political history. Georgia Recorder author Jay Bookman penned a piece on October 19th that speaks to that a bit, and I not only got to share the piece with you, I got to speak with Jay to let him elaborate further. Like, how'd we even get here? He named one prominent Georgia politician as a focal voice that launched this era.
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