I really like The Racket News, and I especially agree with this one. I also did not vote for Burt Jones or Chris West. I forwarded this column to Sarah Longwell at The Bulwark and the Republican Accountability Project.
As a long retired, former republican who was never that interested in politics, I just posted several of these "sentiments" on FB. So happy to see them corroborated here. Trump has inspired my near obsession with what he's created in our country. He forced no one to follow him. Idiocracy, indeed!
This is the problem with constant hollowing out of our institutions and government: people start to think it doesn't work at all, so why not just blow it all up?
You made me giggle at the end whilst I dabbed at my tears. If this truly is the direction I country is headed in I am perfectly fine with Jesus returning tonight.
Strong conservatives in government would be a good thing. Unfortunately, they don't run for elected office. They think they have better things to do and that everyone should be as competent as they are. Progressive career politicians eagerly fill the leadership void when the opportunity arises. They do not lead, but they do further the nanny state.
Voters are now alternating control of our government between the competing parties of career politicians who are taking turns displaying their ineptitude. It's a matter of who the voters prefer to be pulling the strings at the moment. We can't find a middle ground that allows consistency in governance. Change is not always good.
I’d put it slightly differently. I think the voters are alternating control between two groups that they don’t want. Whenever each party gets into power, it immediately alienates the moderates/independents that put them there.
That works for me. In my opinion, the two groups are shape-shifting career politicians who tend toward either a big government nanny state or a smaller government narrowly engaged in Constitutional mandates. Neither of those tendencies exceeds the desire to be re-elected.
Change is not always for the better, but it is always inevitable. And the changes some care about most are those which we have the least ability to control.
Yeah, I guess. I was thinking of legislative bodies trying to make themselves appear relevant by changing stuff just for the sake of change. Even when they reach a compromise on proposed legislation, it is usually unnecessary and not likely to improve anything. Legislation should have undeniable appeal to the voters.
Thanks for the chortle.
I really like The Racket News, and I especially agree with this one. I also did not vote for Burt Jones or Chris West. I forwarded this column to Sarah Longwell at The Bulwark and the Republican Accountability Project.
As a long retired, former republican who was never that interested in politics, I just posted several of these "sentiments" on FB. So happy to see them corroborated here. Trump has inspired my near obsession with what he's created in our country. He forced no one to follow him. Idiocracy, indeed!
I fear we're moving towards outright authoritarianism, with the (for lack of a better term) less educated being brainwashed and used to believe things like this: https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives/
This is the problem with constant hollowing out of our institutions and government: people start to think it doesn't work at all, so why not just blow it all up?
Just look at the email written to this Twitter poster by her dad:
https://twitter.com/jgoldbeck/status/1584694427897167872?s=20&t=SiiMl3OhaXpTnzqzBpTfNQ
You made me giggle at the end whilst I dabbed at my tears. If this truly is the direction I country is headed in I am perfectly fine with Jesus returning tonight.
Strong conservatives in government would be a good thing. Unfortunately, they don't run for elected office. They think they have better things to do and that everyone should be as competent as they are. Progressive career politicians eagerly fill the leadership void when the opportunity arises. They do not lead, but they do further the nanny state.
Voters are now alternating control of our government between the competing parties of career politicians who are taking turns displaying their ineptitude. It's a matter of who the voters prefer to be pulling the strings at the moment. We can't find a middle ground that allows consistency in governance. Change is not always good.
I’d put it slightly differently. I think the voters are alternating control between two groups that they don’t want. Whenever each party gets into power, it immediately alienates the moderates/independents that put them there.
That works for me. In my opinion, the two groups are shape-shifting career politicians who tend toward either a big government nanny state or a smaller government narrowly engaged in Constitutional mandates. Neither of those tendencies exceeds the desire to be re-elected.
Change is not always for the better, but it is always inevitable. And the changes some care about most are those which we have the least ability to control.
Yeah, I guess. I was thinking of legislative bodies trying to make themselves appear relevant by changing stuff just for the sake of change. Even when they reach a compromise on proposed legislation, it is usually unnecessary and not likely to improve anything. Legislation should have undeniable appeal to the voters.