That presupposes a consensus on what the common good looks like. We lost that years ago.
Can't have a republic without a virtuous citizenry, which liberalism is constantly undermining. Something's gotta give.
Without some sort of moral consensus, politics becomes a zero sum game. No room for true statesmanship then. Just naked partisanship and scorched earth tactics.
This is not a defense of Trump at all but I'm not crying for our collective press... they made their bed in so many ways.
Here is what I find so incredibly ironic. This isn't about Trump, Hillary, the Press, Buzzfeed, the Russians, or any of those two-dimensional topics.
This is about the American people! The same American people that decided since they didn't like the job the congress they elected was doing, particularly the House of Representatives, they would vote the most irrational, emotionally flawed, ready, willing, and able to lie, candidate into office as president to fix the problem.
Let's face it, the American electorate lies near the middle, politically speaking. White's push that to the right slightly as seen in the less densely populated center of the country. So they are ideologically more aligned with their house candidates than not.
The American voter is who is entirely responsible for this debicle. The question is will they only 'get what they deserve or not. Here is the short list of flawed behaviors :
- Holding everyone else accountable for shortcomings, but never taking a look in the mirror.
- Absolute greed and avarice : Americans would sell their offspring into slavery for the money (a big enough financial gain.) In comparison, the press selling themselves out for media ratings is small potatoes.
- Becoming world and age class chauvinists; Americans have become such accomplished liars they will turn dog shit lies into truth and decry the other side without questioning anything. Anyone who would believe such stupidity cannot consider themselves anything short of a hopeless ideologue.
- Listening to the same thing said by the same people over and over again, expecting results to come out differently.
Whiskey : Americans have lost sight of what is the common good before, and have come back together after a coalescing event. Unfortunately, that event is almost always a war or similar catastrophic event that kills generations. Which tracks with me. I see the election this past fall as the opening shots of the American Civil War II.
We may be lucky this time. Though luck isn't really the right term to use.
More and more, studying the landscape I see the old organized crime ploy. And I have seen this first hand. The unscrupulous get a hold of a business man, through one means or another, and they rape and plunder his business, using up every asset, cash, holdings, property, credit, even good will, until nothing is left.
That is what the Trump Presidency will be. One term. Repeal every landmark reform granted to the American citizen and taxpayer over the last hundred (almost) years. And kick him aside as the villain, along with trying to pin it on the rubble of what is left of the Democrats. It is starting already. The Republican 115th : Ethics-out, Insurance mandate-out, Dodd-Frank-out, and so on. We will see how long it actually takes those crooks to try to steal social security, or whether they can get away with it!
I can't see the American public stopping them as long as they have cable, heroin, and plenty of cheap high-fructose laden fast food. And remember, they can all spend their time clubbing each other over the head with what is fake news and what isn't.
You all thing the recession brought to you by the W. Bush administration was bad? You ain't seen nothing yet!
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