Mar 09 2012
Post Super Tuesday Malaise
This has to be the most bizarre electoral cycle I have ever experienced. I recall highs and lows, cliff hangers and close losses. But this one feels simply empty. And I am sure most Americans feel the same way.
We need to shrink government a lot, with as little pain as possible towards those whose lives have become reliant on it. But there is no serious plan or discussion being had. None. The election process to date has been chock full of irrelevant minutiae.
Worse yet, President Obama is going down in history as having the most untruthful administration in history. Whether they believe their nonsense or not, it is completely delusional at this point. Detached from reality. This week’s jaw dropping example was the Energy Secretary claiming nonsense about energy prices:
Energy Secretary Steven Chu tried to convince skeptical Republicans Thursday that he and President Barack Obama want lower gasoline prices. …
“Both I and the president and everybody in the administration want to do what we can to lower the price of gasoline because it has a severe effect on the pocketbook of Americans it affects American businesses,” Chu said at the hearing.
That is complete BS. Everyone can list all the dumb ass decisions about drilling and pipelines that have left our own oil and gas reserves untouched. All we get from these clowns is cries to check our air pressure in our tires and look to algae and wind for salvation (though neither can drive a car.
Everyone now sees this administration as a bunch of fakers and fools (depending on if the lie is deliberate or that of an incompetent zealot). The incompetence now rampant in government is stunning. Some of this perspective may have to do with my current work on a massively failed program trying to get right, but as my generation as attempted to rise and take control of this country’s destiny we seem more lost than sure.
We have hit a point where we have to rely on the individual to take us forward. The world is too big, too complex and to fast moving for central management and policing. The concept of big government is now a proven failure. Individual decisions, choices and epiphanies are what we need to rely on to move forward now. government can do some things, but take care of every little aspect of everyone’s lives is beyond reality. It is a silly fantasy too many still cling to.
But until we see more people realizing this truth, and making plans to seriously dismantle our bloated, decaying and futile big-government mess, we will fail as a society and a generation. We will continue to allow the idiocy of consensus to fool us into believing we are progressing instead of falling. And while that goes on there is little interest in exploring the gory details of this slow moving train reck.
excellent observations, I’ve been feeling the same thing myself, as does everyone I know who’s paying attention. The few who had hung on to the belief that there was some hope through the political process are fading fast.
you said something that jumps out at me constantly:
“We need to shrink government a lot, with as little pain as possible towards those whose lives have become reliant on it. But there is no serious plan or discussion being had.”
We are now on the Greek model, which is to go on preaching happiness and wonderfulness and anger at anyone who dissents with this view right up until the end. Because, you see, to admit that the current system is unsustainable is to admit that those who run the current system are both dependent and drunk on the money that flows to them from it.
They don’t *want* to fix it, because almost no one in power today will be able to hang onto power if it’s fixed. So, the plan is to pretend everything is fine right up until the last few hours before it collapses – and then, when it collapses, pretend its all the fault of evil foreigners or speculators or disloyal whoever’s. And as the people suffer a LOT, those in power are counting on the confusion and chaos to enable them to, if not hold on to power, at least to escape to a safe haven with as much as they can steal.
This isn’t some dystopian vision or some hopelessly scary prediction.
This is happening TODAY in Greece, and Portugal, and Spain, and Egypt, and a whole lot of countries around the world.
This is the plan.
There is one thing that everyone is missing now:
IT’S TOO EARLY to start the takedown of obama. 8 months is an eternity.
What it IS time to do is VET our candidate and that I’d exactly what we’re doing. Get it all out now.
And don’t forget these headline from08:
“Barack Obama attacked Hillary Clinton in negative campaign leaked memos show” – Telegraph
“Hillary Clinton Mocks Barack Obama During Campaign Rally”
-huffington post
There are many more…
ivehadit,
You do make a good point and I have said much the same here this year. However, what is still depressing to me is that given all the rage and power the Tea Party and anti-obamacare energy was somehow lost. One candidate, Herman Cain, rose from that! One ill prepared candidate!! Thats it!!
So now we have a slate of the same old political class to choose from. None of these guys wil do what it takes to really change Washington. Now thats depressing!
I thank God for my Fender Stratocasters and the Pentatonic scale.
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Good analysis, AJ! I especially like the second to last paragraph.
Dovetailing into your piece is something posted today:
Former Comptroller-General warns of Greek scenario
WWS, you are right on it, as far as I am concerned. These people are manipulating EVERYTHING to their favor and why not? They are who they are. It’s the naive American public that let themselves be fooled even though the likes of Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Glen Beck and Rush TOLD us who this group is…but noooooo, we wouldn’t want to listen to them now would we.
Wonder if they are listening now. I don’t think businesses are going to fall for it again because I am hoping that the republicans are going to run an ad is with “Just (his) Words” juxtaposed against his actions…we’ll see.
And I wonder what the black churches are going to do…especially with the healthcare mandate…
To catch a herd of wild hogs:
Put some corn in a pile in the woods,
when the hogs are used to coming to get free corn put up one side of a fence, the hogs will look at and walk around it,
after a few days put up another side of the fence, the hogs will look at and walk around it to get free corn,
after a few days put up another side of the fence the hogs will look at and walk around it for free food,
after a few days make the fourth side of the fence with an open gate, the hogs will walk into it to get free corn,
after a few days when the hogs are feeding on free corn shut the gate!
The hogs gave up their freedom and eventually their ability to forage for themselves for free stuff.
We are almost there, over half are taking “free” stuff and the socialists in both parties are ready to shut the gate!
Educations or lack there-of have consequences, we have been educated to accept free stuff in exchage for freedoms!
To catch a herd of wild hogs:
Put some corn in a pile in the woods,
when the hogs are used to coming to get free corn put up one side of a fence, the hogs will look at and walk around it,
after a few days put up another side of the fence, the hogs will look at and walk around it to get free corn,
after a few days put up another side of the fence the hogs will look at and walk around it for free food,
after a few days make the fourth side of the fence with an open gate, the hogs will walk into it to get free corn,
after a few days when the hogs are feeding on free corn shut the gate!
The hogs gave up their freedom and eventually their ability to forage for themselves for free stuff.
We are almost there, over half are taking “free” stuff and the s-o-c-i-a–l-i-s-t-s in both parties are ready to shut the gate!
Educations or lack there-of have consequences, we have been educated to accept free stuff in exchage for freedoms!
I never agree with wws but nobody wants to fix the current system
. It will crash when the people who run it telegraph to their beneficiaries that their benefits are coming to an end. And that won’t happen until the power brokers have secured their continuance in power or their cushy retirement. Which always causes a crash because the beneficiaries always panic over their newfound uncertainty
WWS I think the fixers are around. This country is not quite ready to be fixed, but Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio and that group will fix things. They have a plan, when we are ready to elect them they will be ready to help. It won’t be this time around.
WWS, geez, I’m glad they let you stay out overnight, you actually wrote something comprehensible. (Since I agree with it, you might want to reconsider) I’ve written something very similar myself. Politicians play a political game. They want to keep ‘everyone’ relatively happy, at least enough so that they get to remain in office, so they can better reward their supporters with more largesse while at the same time rewarding their non supporters just enough to keep them from being too upset.
kathie: “but Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio and that group will fix things.” let’s hope that someone will, but Rubio will need to stay in the Senate since he’s not eligible for higher office. not being a natural born citizen.
Only nine responses? I really have nothing to, just wanted to make double digits.
Do you not get the malaise,
please see this excellent Sunday cartoon
With sarcasm, it lays bare the poverty and danger we face
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
It cannot be fixed no matter what some of you folks believe. The collapse will come becuase I doubt any of you get the reason for the structures destructio,
Crying out for Rubio, Ryan and on to fix it is BS.
You are the Power, not the politicians and if you do not realize that it is over.
We the people, etc,.