Character Counts is NOT a grassroots movement

"grassroots - of or involving the common people
as constituting an agent of change"

Character Counts appeals to the common man
as a means of leveling the playing field.

If the world were a place where character counts
cheaters would never win.

In a world where character doesn't really count,
cheaters always win.

And the idea that the common people will inspire
the privileged class to embrace the importance of character

as a means of leveling the playing field,

is either hopelessly naive

or a deliberate deception offering at most,
false hope to common people, the "great unwashed"

in order that they not become so disillusioned and angry, that they rise up and displace the privileged class.


And replace the good ole boys
with a system where character counts,
really counts.



The patently obvious unlikelihood of either eventuality,

the virtual impossibility that the privileged class
will be displaced by revolution or inspiration


is what makes describing Character Counts
as a grassroots movement,
the death knell for Character Counts.
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Grassroots movements, by their very nature,
pit the powerless against the powerful.

The result is as obvious as it is inevitable.

"Power shites on the back of reason." B. Franklin

Always has, always will,
apparently.