Ahhhh... the smell of the Nov. 2nd far-left assassinations in the evening....

[Warph]

I just read that the media is desperately touting Jon Stewart as a national figure, talking up his influence and his rally.  It's hard to find a more pathetic act of desperation than turning your party leadership over to a comedian.  Early on, the Democrats began spreading the meme that Rush Limbaugh is the real head of the Republican party.  Now the Democrats have decided to go one better by making Jon Stewart the head of the Democratic party.  And that completes the transition of the Democratic party to a joke.  An unfunny joke, but a joke nonetheless.

Let me get serious for a minute... What the hell is wrong with our political system today... the huge amounts of money spent and the goofball idiots running for office???  No wonder it is broken.  But why is it broken?? 

The system is broken.... because it has become a tool for corruption, and a tool of corruption.  It is difficult and almost pointless to try and function within the system without becoming part of that corruption.  Because once the system exists to spend money, anyone who tries to get into the system in order to not spend money, is not just fighting for reform, but to turn the whole thing completely around and put everyone out of a job.  Imagine someone joining the army in order not to fight wars, or joining a company in order to lose money.... that's the task lying before someone trying to get elected to congress in order to not spend money.

That is how bad things have gotten.  But they didn't get this bad overnight.  It got there because we were overconfident, we thought that American greatness meant that we deserved a great government.  It got there because monopolies frightened people badly enough that expanding government seemed like a necessary defense.  It got there because every time we had a crisis, every time we went through a war, and every time we felt afraid, we turned to government.  From wars through depressions through turbulent change, we turned to government.  And government got big and powerful enough to turn on us.  Instead of men riding government... governments began to ride men instead.

The ideology of the far-left has turned all that to its own purposes, merging political corruption into ideology, spending in order to bankrupt and regulating in order to control... but it began to work with the existing corruption and the existing mechanisms of power.  Some of the old time Democratic party machinery is baffled by the Obuma administration because they understand government as a vehicle for political corruption, while the Obuma administration has endangered their profits, in order to pursue ideological ends.  But while Obuma represents a political extreme, it's only an extension of what already existed.

It is important to remember that while Obuma and the far-left democrats are a major source of the problem, they are only taking advantage of a broken system.  They are the incompetant hyenas sniffing around a dying animals, vultures circling above a struggling figure trying to reach the next dune over.  The far-left's takeover of the Democratic party has accelerated the process, but it did not begin the process.

The story of the breakdown of America is not that of one party of evil malefacting clowns, smirking and rubbing their hands, while their saintly opposite numbers stand in their path and cry, "Please, have you no shame."  That is the narrative that both parties are comfortable with, but it is not the one that tells the story.  The democrats do have the worst of it, because their enthusiastic embrace of machine politics.... of character assassination and even treason.... has made them by far the worst of the two parties.  Their fusion of greed... knowing that money isn't just money, it's power.... and their ideology has helped lead to everything from a giant welfare state, to social instability, street riots and socialism.  But they could not have done it alone.

An administration without a strong congressional majority tends to be spend more, not less, that is because pork is the price of bipartisanship.  When the democrats took congress in 2006, the Bush administration's spending plans rose up.  Because the price of bipartisanship is everyone getting a slice of the pie.  And a party on the way up, is a party whose politicians are more enthusiastic about getting their share of the pie.  It is the way it has always worked from the begining of time.  And that's the core of the problem. Not the pork alone, or the nanny state ideology of socialism or any of it.  It's all of it... together.... and it's the system that makes it happen.  And that is why, today, the political system is broken.

Since Wilson, the Republicans have tried to play the voice of reason, the moderates who accept and try to repackage the legislative radicalism of the Democrats, into a more reasonable package.  If the Republicans actually repeal ObumaCare, then it will be an important moment when the tide turned.  But I suspect they will not, because it's easier to rise to power on criticism of a Democratic program, than to dare to dispose of the program itself.  It's easier to criticize, than to court controversy by bringing change.  But it needs tochange....because the system is broken!  It is about turning back the clock on government and restoring power to the people again.  If we can do that, then we can start fixing a system that has been hijacked by an entrenched political elite for its own benefit.  If we can't, then we will only be overseeing another phase of its collapse.  Get rid of the Obuma regime.... go out and vote.... and vote Republican, as some would say, "the lesser of the two evils"... but remember that voting is only the first step.  The real work is just beginning.

......Warph