It isn’t that I have nothing to say
I’m just as busy as a three peckered goat. And I spend more time on facebook than I probably ought to. Many of the people I know here are also there.
I’m pretty sick of the whole electoral process, because I can see what has happened and what is happening, and so few can. So no matter what I say, both sides of the aisle accuse me of one thing or another, and all of them- the randians, the randoids, the bernies, the hills, they all are the problem. They all think there ought to be a single vote solution to the problem and sit around waiting for the hero who will make it all right, and bemoan every candidate who doesn’t represent them in every conceivable way. What utter ignorance.
So I know there won’t be anything meaningful and good that gets done in my lifetime, and it sort of sucks, because rather than trying to make a decision that will move politics in a good direction, so many people are willing to put up with the most amazing bullshit just so the guy they hate doesn’t get elected. Well, I’m not.
I have always been a law unto myself and I do what I consider to be correct. When I can no longer do so because my freedoms have been regulated away I will know where to place the blame.
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So many of them want to blame one person for all of the problems, too.
The Republicans often act like everything was fine before January 20, 2009.
And the Democrats before that acted like Bush had caused every problem in the world. Of course, now it’s the Tea Party and Trump to blame.
I try to ignore it, but it makes me think less of people when they get too caught up in that drama.
What I actually don’t understand is why the debates aren’t actually firing squads.
Would serve to produce a more mannerly class of politicians, or so one might think.
If I could suggest one Constitutional Amendment, it would be that any misuse of the public trust, from a beat cop taking a bribe to the Secretary of State hiding her emails on a non-public-owned computer, would be punishable by immediate, public, and messy execution.
Then again I think Congress would be improved overall if, every month in which there is a budget deficit, one randomly selected Congressman or Senator was taken out and hanged on the National Mall. I doubt we’d get them to pass THAT law either.
The problem is the bureaucrats. Course if did not re-elect anyone that could make a difference.
Local elections I think we can still have a say, but I doubt we’d see another populist, true, for the benefit of the country as a whole national office holder. Too much pac and lobbyist money. And when you see Senator A retire from office and immediately hire on with X, Y, or Z lobby group to go right back in and lobby for that special interest with the very same guys he just finished spending 6+ years eating, hanging with, and in general being in the club around, you see in a flash what you may not otherwise notice from all the other junk happening.
I was 16 when Reagan was breathing brimstone in the 1980 primaries until he was “spoken to” (as my father put it) to tone down his talk of taking on the special interests like the trilateral commission and such, then the establishment saddled him with CIA chief Bush. I wonder what kind of “talk” Perot received when his campaign, which was on a roll, all of a sudden had to be called off because of a daughter’s wedding, or something (cough, cough). They did a spectacular smear job on Palin. They outright ignore a Huckabee or Santorum (heck the GOP went ahead as obviously as the sun and established a two tier debate with a grown-ups table and a kiddie table specifically to marginalize whoever they wanted o.u.t. out).
And so as of this date (new developments can change my mind) I still feel the Trump thing is a wily Clinton hoax to get people from both parties who latch onto the real world issues he discusses to divert their energy from any candidate who may be able to turn things around, and waste it on his road show. A man who up until now was publicly apolitical (though a liberal D and a Clinton friend for years; Bill is still a member of one of his country clubs) is willing to give up 40 years of building his brand for a race where he will be made a pariah, where every sound bite is a reaction and there is no site of a Plan 1 for bringing companies back from overseas to stateside, dealing with enemies, helping friendlies, stopping an immigrant flood until citizens have good jobs first, anything. If you see a game run and can’t identify the sucker, ahem.
So who was it that got buttburned?
This has been going on since Marx first published in the late 1800s.
We all seem to recognize that we’re in a fight to the death against Islam, but damn few recognize that we’re also in a fight for our freedom against Progressivism/Marxism/Communism/Socialism and just about every other “ism” on the list.
They’ve been dis-assembling us for nearly a hundred years. We’re not gonna fix that with just one election.
Still, every election matters, if nothing else, as a holding or rear-guard action against further encroachment.
It would be nice though, to do more than just “hold” but to counterattack and take back ground.
I’d like that.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
(no butthurt here!)
“every month in which there is a budget deficit, one randomly selected Congressman or Senator was taken out and hanged on the National Mall.”
Your suggestion has a marked similarity to the decimation technique used on flagging Roman legion devisions, but your numbers are too low.
The trend of politicians not being up to the task is world wide… the reason I believe is due to the fact that it looks like an easy way to make money… better than straight crime as there is less chance of being incarcerated. :-(
Now if we could get rid of the perks these parasites get for being in office… we may get real leaders that are worth looking up to perhaps?
When you give a man power over others and you are surprised when he locks you up, you are surprised?
No one on the political stage has anything approaching a moral center. Anyone who does will not submit themselves to what is require to lead this republic.
If we elect anyone without a moral center, we will get succeeding levels of lower expectations.
I go through periods where I hope we can still save this mess, and others where I find myself wondering “Lord, is it such a terrible wish? Just one little meteor, during the State of the Union? I know it’d cause a bunch of collateral damage, but we could start clean…”
That I would actually consider that as a good solution speaks of just how worn-out and disgusted I am(not just this, but it’s a BIG one).