I have come to the conclusion that there is no ‘right’ side left in politics. Only competing interests. Them —Us.
The economy is melting down because it has been fueled for the past decade at least by fiscal slight of hand and accounting practices that might charitably be described as questionable and more realistically labeled as CRIMINAL. To blame the Democrats for this is as fundamentally misguided as the Democrats blaming Bush for all the evils of the World. It’s clearly much easier to blame bad things on the ‘enemy’. But easier does not equate to correct. The economy is in a systemic abyss. Certain ‘policies’ and commentary might have had some very marginal effects but the foundation itself is structurally unsound. If you use VERY bad concrete and defective reinforcing bars to build, sooner or later the structure will collapse. Whether or not someone keeps jumping up and down on the top floor.
You can’t live forever beyond your means and sooner or later the piper really does want his cash. He wants it NOW. And he doesn’t care whether you are a ‘D’ or an ‘R’. He just doesn’t care. Politics has become increasingly akin to the conflicts between the Blues & the Greens in the Byzantine Empire. Much ado about nothing while things unravel all around the feuding entities.
Thge economy is truly scary but the state of ‘politics’ is just sort of sad. If we really do get the kind of Government we deserve, then we must have some really bad karma we need to work off.
