We
live now with dishonest politics, disinformed, and disinforming media,
disconnected cultures, disjointed economics, dysfunctional communities and
disrespected citizens. Repairing our country will require adding a moral
foundation to our politics.
The
US has become, if anything, meaner, smaller, nastier, and more contentious since
the 1980’s. We see push back against civil rights, the fracturing of the middle
class, the overweaning power of the oligarchy, and the radical right’s burning desire to
inflict pain on the poor, who apparently are transgressors against the American
Ideal.
Should
we talk about Hillary’s health? OK! She hit her head. Is she too old? Was
Reagan too old? Was W. too incurious? Was Bill too needy? Was Gore too
arrogant? Is Obama too arrogant? Too aloof? Too tyrannical? Too much a
pushover? Take
your pick, anyone can play! And everybody does!
Pay no attention to these toxic
buffoons.
Policy
questions? Why? You can’t have policy questions if the legislature is
paralyzed! Is this a form of ideological paralysis, or strategic paralysis? Ooh
wait! Strategy! Now let’s talk about strategy instead of policy! Is getting
your way by fooling the electorate a BAD thing, or a GOOD thing? Discuss!
You
must keep score! Who’s on first? Where are we? My head hurts, I must have hit
it on something.
Pay
no attention to toxic buffoons like Rove:
Or toxic buffoons like Marco Rubio or other Deniers:
Or, toxic buffoons like the “Select” Committee on Benghazi:
Or, buffoons in the media who keep selling the same thing:
Or, buffoons who stand on principle:
Or, bureaucrat buffoons who cook the books:
Funny about Hillary Clinton, I don’t really see her as running. And if she does not, then the time to vet policies and see what ideas would float, will have been wasted.
Every time I see Ms Clinton, I notice how tired she looks. I just don’t see the energy needed to go through another campaign.
I think Hillary will run, and that she will be pulled towards a populist message by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Also, Karl Rove’s hit on a good anti-Hillary strategy. She will inevitably misspeak, and Rove will pounce on Fox, saying that it is another example of her “illness” or her “age”.