Posted on 09/24/2015 11:26:25 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the entire government working for you,” Will Rogers quipped, capturing his era’s zeitgeist and explaining the popularity of our moment’s outsider presidential candidates.
It’s good to be a non-politician when 75 percent of Americans say government corruption is widespread, up from 66 percent in 2009, and half say government is an immediate threat to lives and freedoms, according to Gallup.
It’s bad to be the debate-shy “candidate of destiny,” Hillary Clinton, when the first three words voters associate with her are “liar,” “dishonest” and “untrustworthy,” according to a Quinnipiac poll.
Even early GOP front-runner and heroic “outsider” Scott Walker succumbed to skepticism, exiting the race after getting trumped by voters who won’t Think Again about his policy reversals.
With median incomes down 6.5 percent since 2007, U.S. debt surging to perilous heights and the world melting down, voters resist limiting their choice to donor favorites — Clinton 2.0 or Bush 3.0.
If there’s a Rosetta Stone deciphering Americans’ malaise, it’s the unprecedented and often extra-constitutional way lawmakers make consequential decisions in defiance of public opinion.
Fans of self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders and conservative Ted Cruz meet at the intersection of their contempt for a government that gives sweetheart deals to well-connected cronies.
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Well Colorado is a ‘drug’ state, so depends on how ‘high’ they are there...
Well Colorado is a ‘drug’ state, so depends on how ‘high’ they are there...
By the media. It hates Trump and is doing all it can to destroy him. May those in the press go to hell, sooner rather than later.
“If there’s a Rosetta Stone deciphering Americans’ malaise, it’s the unprecedented and often extra-constitutional way lawmakers make consequential decisions in defiance of public opinion.”
Exactly. We are living in a time when our elected officials no longer fear the people. For this I blame a weak opposition party, but perhaps more blame should go to that special branch of government, the one the founding fathers gave specific protection, the fourth estate. The men and woman who would like to be called reporters but have become lap dogs.
Your right in every way!!!
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You’ve been using FR to advertise your stuff for a long time, haven’t you?
As always, it is up to the people to correct our government. We are starting to see some cracks, a handful of GOPe candidates have lost primaries and elections. The Dems lost their recent hold over Congress, however the lack of action by the GOPe given their mandate has now produced Trump, Carson and Lady Fiorina.
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