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Originally posted by Spanky
Wow - that was really cynical. Do you ever have any trouble getting up in the morning?
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No. I just surf along and hope to enjoy the ride.
Here's another way of looking at the dilletante/idiot problem in American politics. Political thought traditionally moved in huge pendulum shifts. One extreme to the other, with lemmings/opportunists/rubes glomming onto the arm as it shifted at a swift clip.
Nearly always, the solution to a problem, or at least the sensible approach, is in the middle. But that didn't happen with politics. We swung back and forth between Big Govt Libs to Small Govt GOPers.
Then came the 70s recession and Reagan. Now, there was no Big Govt party anymore. The Dems lost their plank. Their savior, Bubba, was a Rockefeller Republican. Both parties became the parties of small govt and an economically more kill-or-be-killed society.
So what do we argue about these days, when the parties are running on nearly identical platforms? Nothing of substance. The two parties spend all their time and resources trying to create "pendulum" issues. They try to indict one another or get people in a lather over abortion, or allegedly activist courts. They look for conspiracy theories. They try to differentiate themselves from one another to get the old peendulum shifting back and forth again, so they can start some "revolution."
There are no more revolutions of political thought in this country. The Right and Left are just pathetic fools bickering around a fat middle of moderates who just want to keep their taxes as low as possible.
The Dems can win any election they want if they just come out and say "I will lower taxes." People have given up on politics and politicians, except to the extent that they can make money in the system. We are a nation of people who vote with our pocketbooks. The people who want to start the pendulum again don't understand that, and thats why they keep making crazir charges at one another every day. They think they can somehow get the old back-and-forth rolling again. Ain't going to happen.
