Dear James, Daniel and Emily,
I have been working to try and put together in my mind a Liberatarian mindset for a satirical post. But try as I might, I just can't do it any more. When I drive on crappy, pothole filled roads. Watch my kids practice baseball in a park with no facilities and dying grass. When I watch Congress, especially the Senate, talk of practicing fiscal restraint at a time when states and cities face massive cutbacks in services and important people like teachers face layoffs. When GO(B)P Representatives apologize to corporations for an administration asking the corporation to set aside money that they know they will have to use to pay people back for a disaster that their negligence caused. When a Federal Judge who hold sstock in a an oil company sides with the oil companies interests in making a ruling against the governments attempts to prevent another major disaster.
In the midst of all of the above it is virtually impossible to have a sense of humor. And it becomes harder and harder to keep an open mind and see the other side of the coin or read their arguments. When the President is simultaneously condemned as too soft, peddling for the interests of the Left and too weak in the face of our 'enemies'. And at the same time is accused of being too hard, too tough and unbending, a thug and practitioner of Chicago Style machine politics.
I know big picture none of this is really new under the sun. The hard line partisanship of current politics is, if anything, lesser then previous moments in our history. But that doesn't make it easier to handle, or read about on a daily basis. This is the source of my frustration with politics today. And I can hope that things turn around, but I wonder how possible that is in the world of the 24 x 7 news cycle. I have no solution to present, no alternatives to present. This is simply a rant, a cry for help in the wilderness.
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