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    This morning I got a post from NC Policy Watch. It rates the events of NC politics for 2014. The first thing some conservatives will try to do is claim they are a part of "liberal media conspiracy."

    I simply believe in letting the chips fall where they may and do some thinking and looking from another perspective.

    I came to NC for the first time to live in 1967. I have uncles from both sides of my family. One lived in Charlotte and 2 in Gastonia. I used to go to my Granddaddy's house and see the Asheville TV station when there. Even though I grew up in the Atlanta metro area, our family reunions always had good Lexington Style Bar-b-que and Brunswick Stew brought to it. I have lived in GA / SC / and NC all my life.

    When I lived at Wake Forest for 1967-70 I worked with the Wake County Juvenile Court. My assessment as I left the Raleigh area was that "Raleigh would never be anymore than a capital cow town." How things changed in my absence to SC and GA! Our political leaders conceived the Research Triangle Park and Eastern NC Medical School. Charlotte began to grown with the same dimensions of Atlanta. My great joy at returning in 1986 was the progressive outlook of NC and its growth. We had growth without the urban sprawl of Atlanta. . .

    Best I can tell that has all gone away with the new outlook of Conservatism:

     •  Where NC used to be an education leader in the US, it is now at the bottom of the heap

     •  The Education Lottery was put in place and that is a farce---the only thing it does is recover welfare money from people thinking it is possible win when the ticket shows the low odds

     •  The State Mental Hospital, Dorothea Dix, where I worked is now closed (I suspect many of the patients went to Legislative Hill and got employed as political advisors)

     •  Conservatism led to the Marriage Amendment which the Attorney General, Roy Cooper, said was unconstitutional that proved true last year

     •  Baptists of NC are now taken over by Conservatives --- more accurately, Fundamentalists

     •  Dr. Bill Friday said the destruction of Southeastern Seminary was the most significant thing in the 1900's to happen in NC as preachers began to influence politics each year in NC

     •  Now, after years of economic failure, we have bit the poison of the Trickle Down Tax concept

     •  For sure we do not have sufficient tax Income to pay the budget adopted last year much less that of 2015

     •  As best I can tell our economy is in deep Recession. Racial issues are resurrected. Our schools are seeing teachers leave each week for lack of competitive pay. The textile industry is gone.` Tobacco is far less profitable. We are now being so PC you can't even smoke on the Beaufort College Campus period . . .

    I leave it up to you to analyze from whatever is your perspective.

    In my view, if Conservatives have conserved any progress in NC, I can't quite see it . . .