Project Logic Ga

If our rural southern communities are going to improve, we need to change the plan culturally and politically.  The current plantation mentality has not worked in years: fancy candidates raise tons of money for T.V. spots and get working people to “volunteer” to do grassroots.

First, your family’s life would be better culturally if the government wasn’t at the center of it.  You can’t and shouldn’t trust the government (local, state or federal) to care for your kin; that’s your job.

Secondly, the public policy actions of government relative to your family are decided by elected officials.  Candidates and political parties have state of the art computer software that shows voting actions and patterns down to the city block…down to each house.  They know what areas vote and voting areas get the services and attention—the squeaky wheel gets the grease.  In other words, crappy schools and brash policemen start with you not voting.

The Democratic Party often functions as a top-down enterprise with elites in Atlanta and D.C. deciding what is important and how operations should go then selling those plans to the people.  Say what?  Give credit where credit is due: the trashy views that are the base of the current far Right grew organically from the people and folks like Trump parachuted to the top of the steaming heap.

Dems can’t win statewide or win states for president because “down ballot” activities have been missing for years.  However, there is hope for a new Dem political foundation based on the Zero candy bar of our childhoods.   In my youth, the rural South was a mix of Black and White people.  We know southern Whites love the freedom of land—their spreads feels like little kingdoms equipped with standing armies.  Since the church is at the bottom of the hill and the kids are homeschooled, Walmart is the only reason to go into town.

The exodus of Whites to the rural areas leaves the largest town in the county Black…60 and 70 percent Black.  So, a new check and balance is Black political power in city government balancing White control of county government.  That situation would be fine if Black residents would actually vote and if White county voters didn’t insist on still trying to control the big town— because their businesses are there and yes they are vital to the tax base.

It gets better.  Many counties had two high schools when I was a kid…i.e. city kids at Valdosta High and country farm kids at Lowndes High.  But if you watch “Football Town” on the NFL Network, you will see that the money in Lowndes County is now out of town.  The same can be said about Camilla, Pelham and Mitchell County to some degree.   Remember, elected officials hire city managers and city managers select police, fire and other department heads.   So, a countywide school board has to decide the allocation of funds for two high schools—one school has a huge student body but the rural smaller school’s parents pay much more in taxes.  Valuable farmland is the tax base.

Georgia seemed surprised that so many Black mayors were elected recently but it shouldn’t be and city councils should be next.  That Zero Candy bar was white on the outside with chocolate goodness in the center.  Counties from Virginia to Texas are the same way and those new Black elected officials’ campaign teams and voter turnout operations serve as the foundation of Dems winning future statewide and presidential elections from the bottom up….without the approval or permission of Black political relics.  You know that Zero Bar has a hard white shell and the inside includes some soft brown and some brown nuts…just saying.