When things don’t make sense, we make them make sense by supplying additional information which is either true or false, but which fills the gap. I think a longer-term trend than simple disgust with the GOP, and to some extent with the DNC as the Clinton machine blows a rod, is the decay of an American Republic as seen in your Civics textbook.
We’ve always been plagued by the Art Bell / Alex Jones kooker crowd and their Libertarian Party locust. Call these people the early adopters, ready to fly away from reason (even while laying exclusive claim to “Reason”, a sign of derangement) at too little provocation. Then there are those who will never depart the pattern, but will drive right into a wall because there is no sign instructing them to turn — the GOP faithful. These are the late adopters — for them, the GOP will never put forth an unacceptable candidate on election day. And then in the middle, smeared from one extreme to the other, is the great mass of people, the place where simple power — as opposed to some malformed kingmaker status — resides. And these people are now complaining that things don’t make sense.
They are right.
Like some horror film variation on the tale of a bunch of blind folks trying to describe an elephant, the American people are closing in on the Cloverfield monster that has colonized Washington DC and laid waste to our Republic. The closer you get to it, the less reliable, the more fantastic your reports become. It’s a crazy-maker and a poisoner, a liar and an effortless purchaser of loyalty. It’s an octopus to some and a pyramid to others, and some it terrifies while others it merely hectors into complicity. Everybody got mouths to feed.
Nobody has a clear picture of it, and ridiculous tales abound, but the one thing that is certain is that the American people can smell its stink, and are realizing that this is a fight to the death.
The creature from the hyper-Kremlin mosque of fiat currency is running out of places to hide. Your mileage may vary. It looks like different things to different people, but as the cordon is drawn, watch for the tales to converge — with facts or without. Watch for pissed-off democrats to start agreeing.
This is what’s making me want to withdraw, in some ways, Beloved Admin…You can’t fight what you can’t see (the fog of politics -as-war) – and loud rage in CAPS, on other places I sometimes frequent, seems the same as the circus elsewhere that knocked the wind from my sails recently…I’m working at getting core strong – in every way – as I try to discern my own “rules of engagement”. Thanks for this, Shipmate! Welcome back!
Charles Murray in his recent book lays out the argument that the government, in any of its guises, cannot heal itself. What it will take is guerrilla warfare at the edges, forcing changes in how government and particularly the bureaucrats, view themselves and their roles.
What we are most missing today is accountability. The fact Congress doesn’t demand any accountability is merely a reflection of the fact it is mostly in a whirl to collect enough money to get re-elected. ?Why does it cost so much to be elected. Because Congress controls the purse to large benefits.
Once upon a time, becoming a Congresscritter was relativehy cheap. This came because Congress had little of use to controll. Then we got the activist progressives, who basically trashed all the safeguards built into the Constitution, and the Feds have been off to the races slowly but steadily. With that and a few other small things, we got to the point that Congresscritters can be useful to a business to get desired advantages. The exchange is money to be re-elected.
Neither side can step off this merry-go-round. It will take some outside force, some outside intrusion(s), some external influence to tilt the government towards a more open and fair system. As it stands, it is terribly tilted toward the government, or more accurately, toward the “expert” who is the government bureaucrat. The courts have refused to act as the voice of reason. So we get the atrocities we see of the EPA and others.
The ONLY way this will be ‘fixed” will be if we give push-back. There are numerous ways this can happen, but Murray postulates one of the better ones – for some rich guys to establish a fund that protects the little guy and chases the government to the end of the earth.
Maybe that has a chance of working. Lord knows it would be better than what we have now.