Wow, that’s a pretty depressing way to start your day, FRiend.
For my money (what’s left of it), the focus must revert from scattershot at any and all purported and putative political leaders to laser intensity on the one attempting to subvert and dominate the system. He has acocmplices in his Hustle, but President Mickey Bricks is simply a good-looking, smooth-talking, well-dressed, utterly amoral huckster, just like his fictional avatar. His Albert Stroller is Bill Ayers and Rahm works as his Ash Morgan (Danny Blue he doesn’t need, yet). The team is almost in place. The only important crew member not present yet is Stacy Monroe (the bombshell lure). That girl would seal the deal, bypassing any number of midbrain responses in males everywhere. I’m guessing Annette Bening is currently auditioning for the role.
It’s a good thing the good looking women are mostly moral and conservative, or we’d really be in trouble.
Reagan understood ideas. He became a conservative, because he knew ideas have physical consequences.
There are not one in a thousand, GOP/RNC elite, that have any, zip, nada, education in political thinking, the great books, names like Burke, Tocivell, never mind familure with Hyack, Mies, Buchannan. Not one has even read Adam Smith.
In a phrase, the GOP is a frat boy leadership. They come to the struggle of ideas, unarmed.
The left is well armed. Wrong ideas. Bad ideas. Evil ideas, well proved desatorusly in our life time. Heck, see the cities of Detroit, Newark, Oakland, East St. Louis.
But, the left blelives, so facts are irrevelent.
One party, see facts, but is with out belife in ideas.
The other party has ideas, but couldn’t care less for facts.
We are in the middle.
Money people are fleeing for the hills, or aligning themselves with either of the ignorent, or both if they are smart, parties.
Old story.
What do you think is going to happen when money people stop fighting the decline, and start trying to profit from it? You think the short selling hedge fund guys were bad, wait until everyone piles in. (They kind of have already started)
How many great city states, with fine public buildings, wealthy youth, sports arenas, merchant ships in the harbor, farmers bringing in harvests, with fine arts have come and gone?
Forget the city states. How many empires, spanning thousands of miles, with fine Armies, well equipped, postal systems, large educated Mandarin class of bureaucrat rule enforcers have come and gone?