âIn individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.â â Frederick Nietzsche
It is clear that we have entered what may be the last years when we can delay or avoid entirely, the decline of America as the worldâs indispensable nation. What is unclear is what the US electorate thought they were voting for last November. Polls have repeatedly shown that the public favors the Democratsâ policy proposals, but increasingly, votes for Republicans. So polarization has ensued, and DC has already turned its focus to the NEXT election, even though we just had one.
Everything between here and there will be simply BS and time filling. Are we to lose another two years? The rest of the world will not be waiting for us.
The Republicans had many responses to the SOTU:
Then there was the official Republican response:
BTW: Donât you wear the plastic bags INSIDE your shoes to keep the water out? Shoe condoms? Really?
Yet, there are always a few things we all agree with:
With the unfathomable House and Senate votes that have already been taken, is there an image problem?
Last week, the pro-life peeps marched in DC, and the Râs in a show of support, tried a vote on abortion:
Could this be the way the logjam ends in DC?
I believe we are very close to being a failed state. Not perhaps like those we deem failed. But our government, designed to limit power, has ultimately succeeded. A plurality of Americans favored a single payor health plan and a majority favored some form of federal health care, yet voters continue to vote for those who want to end the ACA. It is all so disappointing. Our founders, if they came back today, would be disgusted.