""There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny." " -- Frederick William Robertson.
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The wonders of Hannibal Don Lector is upon us.
I cannot quote Crocodile Dundee and say, "No Worries"
It is not quite the mental adjustment to say you are already dead so there is no fear of death in the midst of a battle of a war as the sides kill each other.
The 4 years of the painful reporting every time he wipes his ass with the constitution, or they place the camera on the golden toilet awaiting for him to appear and wipe his rear with the Constitution and he flushes and clogs toilet as it overflows.
That is going to be enormously aggravating like walking on rose stems with thorns barefoot.
OK, here goes: Jesus his own self could not have won Kamala Harris that election because of Ronald the fuck Reagan.
Remember when Biden was triumphing over the remains of the Reagan revolution? That was policy. The real Reagan revolution was convincing millions of morons to hate their own government.
Electing Fergus again, after seeing what he did already was as close to bombing the US government out of existence as these despicable morons will ever get, and they weren't gonna miss the chance.
All of that policy that Biden accomplished and Harris promised? That's all shit that the government does, so it's bad by fucking definition.
And you're right, Democrats get elected to fix the damage Republicans do, and only when they are the only choice, and only when the damage is so severe that the above-mentioned morons' lives are disrupted by it.
It is a bit of irony, I believe, that the US government actually works so well that all of those imbeciles can go most of their uninterrupted lives living here without the merest of clues as to who is in it or how it works or what it does.
I feel a little sorry for all of the Fergus voters who are about to find out what the government used to do for them, but only a little. On a human level, I don't want to see anyone suffer, but in a very real way they went out of their way to ask for this specific outcome. Now they get it. And so do we.
What to do about the electoral landscape? I imagine that should democracy itself survive this, we'll be called upon once again to fix the damage. So perhaps it might be wise to plan for it: prepare the legislation for reforming elections and neutering the supreme court before the next campaign comes around and have the people in place to execute on them right away no matter what kind of chaos has to be unwound on day one... Oh yeah, we already did that.
Manchin and Sinema.
Right.
So how do we get the electorate to un-hate their government?
I don't know. I only know that it happened to me. I was never a Republican, although in my youth I did have some views that only in hindsight do I recognize as right wing.
What I was was an outlaw. For fifteen years. When the most salient aspect of your government is the fact that it spends millions of dollars to try and put you in prison, you don't tend to have a favorable view of it. I just pretty much ignored it as much as was safe to do. What changed me? Some union machinists on an AC Transit bus in the early nineties. I was on my way home from work, and they were all on the bus and enthusiastically talking about work. Having been trained as a machinist and welder in High school, I got interested in their conversation. "Five dollar an hour raise and as much overtime as I can handle!" Then they all looked at one another and as one said: "Clinton!"
This was new information to me. I had literally never heard anyone say that they liked their president, or more importantly, that something their president did had helped them enough to be visibly excited about it. After that I started paying attention, which naturally led me to become the flaming liberal that I have been for decades.
Thank you again for the podcast. Please tell Blue Gal that I said that having human emotions is not a shortcoming, even for a political podcaster. The damn cat killed another flying squirrel. Freshly poured my shiny, metal ass.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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