those of us old enough to remember the Carter fiasco know how quickly his insipid liberal ineptitude was soon being attributed to the difficulties of governing America, structural problems in our political system, etc.
Then came Ronald Reagan.......
I don't often encounter vocabularly I'm unfamilar with...
jer·e·mi·ad (jr-md) n. A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [French jérémiade, after Jérémie, Jeremiah, author of The Lamentations, from Late Latin Ieremis; see Jeremiah1.] The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jeremiad [ˌdʒɛrɪˈmaɪəd] n a long mournful lamentation or complaint Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
That's the problem right there! This country is not a democracy, it's a REPUBLIC! Idiots! Idiots! Idiots! No wonder they don't have a frigging clue why we're pissed off!
bttt for later
Cats are hard to herd, eh Donks?
The "party of Jefferson", as the Democrats love to annoint themselves, claiming the populace is too ignorant to be part of the political process.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Educate and inform -- got it? This is not accomplished with closed-door horse-trading. It is not accomplished with behind-the-scenes negotiating and midnight votes. It is achieved through open meetings which do not have ulterior purpose.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
And yet when people seek to make their voices heard, they are denigrated as radicals, domestic terrorists, and any other slanderous derogative. Why? Simple. They disagree. T.J. had one for that, too:
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
So where does the 'party of Jefferson' get its arrogance? Its belief that a people too stoopid to be part of the process deserves to have 'what's good for it' rammed down its unwilling throat?
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The problem 0 has run into is that dominance has led to impatience, which has resulted in prematurely exposing the intent of the party -- to retain power.
The meeting regarding the budget has no foothold in responsibility. After years of creating dependence, what 0 and the democrat party is now looking for is a fall guy on the right to point to as being responsible for taking away the crumbs which have been labeled into the trough which feeds the many who have been 'organized' by 0 and his ilk.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.