Regular readers will remember I've said for years that neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties are to be trusted. Both are self-centered organizations prepared to do whatever is necessary to promote their own agendas rather than what the United States really needs.
Blue put it in a nutshell today with this image.
Word. Thanks, Blue.
Peter
No matter what letter accompanies their name, I've learned just to despise every politician on sight. It saves time and money.
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ReplyDelete"The deep state" is just the new name for "No matter who you vote for, the government gets elected."
I sometimes suspect that all the politicians are, e.g., addicted to crack, and thus subject to blackmail by each other and by the permanent institutions.
It doesn't help a bit that laws are now effectively made by administrative agencies, and it takes a supermajority in the legislature to block a new regulation-with-the-force-of-law.
Around here, urban planning is done by regional metagovernmental agencies whose members never appear on any ballot I get to vote on. In the last city council election, the "Radical redevelopment: full speed ahead!" slate was endorsed by the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the Sierra Club, the real-estate development cartel, the government-employee unions, and basically all of the entrenched interests, no matter how opposed their nominal purposes. In short: the unified ruling class now looks after its own interests with only the very thinnest window-dressing of consent.
When there is a boot on your neck, it matters little whether the boot is red or blue, right or left.
ReplyDeleteI suspect it's something like the M*A*S*H episode in which Father Mulcahy took over the Mess Hall and unwittingly signed for a bunch of non-existent mess trays and other equipment.
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