Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Maybe if IL would stop fraud and corruption education could be funded.
“Budgets show where priorities are, and not just what, but who is valued,” she said. “Workers in Illinois have been undervalued for far too long. Which is why the state is budgeting far more for pensions these days than it did in decades past. Since we can’t go back in time to lower your salary or take away some of your raises and instead put that money into the pension systems where it should have gone tbw, this is where we are. You got yours. Now they pay. “I got out at 55 and I don’t have to work ’til… Read more »
These educational people don’t realize that their salaries and pensions are what are driving costs higher.