I share your angst, Graewoulf. I can see what has happened, and what is still happening, under the administration of this pro forma, ersatz president.
He's like a black hole, that inexorably draws the entire "universe" into its ego-maniacal maw....
We can agree to acknowledge this. But the burning question remains: What are We the People going to do about it? We supposedly are sovereign under our constitutional system. So why are we seemingly so willing to trade our sovereignty for a mess of pottage?
I have no clue what the explanation may be (other than my "bright, shiny object" theory); but this I know for sure: Culture precedes politics.
If the culture is destroyed, do not expect "good government," let alone constitutional government, American-style.
Which is why the progressive Left has devoted so much of its energy to undermining, to wrecking American culture over the past fifty years and more through the mass media, the public schools and institutions of higher learning, the so-called "charities," and what passes for "the arts" these days....
The American people must have been sleepwalking through all of this....
I don't see any easy answers. What might work would be a restoration of the American public culture. But the elite movers-and-shakers would fight this tooth and nail, down to the last breath.
So, what to do? I figure that all I can personally manage is to (1) Stand on firm ground; and (2) Tell the truth.
If the problem is in the culture, then it almost doesn't matter what party you vote for, what candidates you elect. A deracinated, despiritualized popular culture cannot be expected to produce any kind of good political order.
Plato noticed this problem, roughly five hundred years before the birth of Christ. He was right then, and he's still right now.
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, Graewoulf!
What to do? “Encourage” y’alls US House Rep. to force Boehner to resign as Speaker.
They will be overjoyed to have their ears filled by y’all while they are on their August vacay.
Without the Boehner Blank Checks, the Impeachment of Obama can continue, in Regular Order.