Posted on 01/30/2023 9:17:31 AM PST by SoConPubbie
An astute observation. Too bad other posters here don’t want to even offer workable ideas on how to correct this path we are on. Attacking anyone who isn’t an adherent to the doctrine they espouse is counter productive. But I guess it makes them feel better and validates their beliefs.
We have the govt. that we voted into power. The politicians sold the voters on their visions, wrapped up in the flag and patriotic slogans and then proceeded to do nothing. Anybody who has followed politics for the last 25 years has seen this coming. And if one suggested that we might have a problem they were marginalized. Thus we have the performative theater we call politics and American governance. Frankly the only chance we have of possibly correcting where we are headed if we stop this incessant tribal like nonsense and realize we are getting played by the power structure. People want opportunity and don’t want overbearing bureaucracy and stifling rules. That’s not left or right...that’s called freedom in America.
Okay, fair enough. But we’re not as far from that as you may think. Just look at NAZI Germany or Fascist Italy. They went from freedom to fascism in a matter of a few years. And from fascism to war within a few more. I mention those two examples because their transitions were quasi-legal at the time. No massive civil war. They just seized power with little pushback and all the while many undoubtedly were saying “what’s the big deal”?
Political appointed SES always pissed me off. Just like the bald headed faggot dog humping luggage thief.
Exactly I agree 100% with what you’re saying. For a lot of folks it’s their way or the highway, lots of name calling and snark, which brings nobody to the table.
If there must be an us vs them, then let it be we the people vs government. I don’t see that happening.
Folks blame the media for trying to divide us, but the party is already fractured and has been for a few years now.
We are so divided, so entrenched in, as you say, tribalism, that it can make a person’s mind screwy just trying to comprehend the different view points in here and nobody is giving an inch.
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Dumb troll alert!
way past time flyover country shut down and neutered DC...and the rest of the world will thank us!
Given the prevalent apathy of many American voters and their minimal following of politics I concur it could indeed happen.
Most Americans do not follow political events as they are busy worrying about other things...i.e. fuel costs, food prices, and so on. Their political exposure is from mass media and from conversations with their friends. And given the divisiveness we see that means they may only get a viewpoint that validates their own perceptions of events. Witness the conversations that occur here. There is no middle ground on much of anything. And even suggesting a moderate idea elicits a highly negative response. Even if in the real world it might be a starting point to solve a problem that all could agree exists.
The highly partisan nature of our perspectives on issues almost ensure we will never solve a problem or develop a strategy to counter what we all might believe to be wrong insofar as to the laws or regulations we live under. My way or the highway never seems to fix anything. Yet here we are.
Then fire every SES grade employee.
Well, we were able to find some common ground, so that’s a start.
Oh shut up moderate. I said be specific.
After bragging how well he knows the and how effective they are.
One way to drain the swamp is to move the swamp. I believe that a dispersal of Federal agencies (and employees) to locations outside of D.C. would materially change the composition of Federal civil service.
Force the so-called elites away from thier East Coast redoubts and many will quit. Other will find their fixed attitudes and opinions changing as they encounter ordinary folks in red states and smaller cities.
This can easily be seen as a move to improve our strategic defense posture as too many Federal installations are clustered in too small an area and are vulnerable to first strikes of nukes.
Nobody said it would be easy and it’s not as though swamp-dwellers aren’t aware of the situation.
Bookmarking.
This is why DJT *will* be indicted...either for the documents or in Georgia.
But he did say that he alone could do it. And he didn’t. Do you rehire a failure?
"I only hire the best!"
“Oh shut up moderate”.... Oh you are so authoritative when you demand stuff central...do you wear your cammies and strut around when you bark out orders..:)
You just expressed the problem with Trump: “It’s served me well, why change?” But did his people really serve him well at all?
No, I disregard the clientele whose expectations are unrealistic!
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