Friday, August 24, 2018

Remember When...

     Gosh, remember when the possibility of more embarrassingly tawdry bedroom antics was an additional reason not to elect another Clinton?

     Back in 2016, I saw the main choices as being between a petty, a vindictive person who had a good handle on how Washington works and a petty, vindictive person who didn't.  While I voted for a third choice, the electorate went with the outsider and here we are.  There was going to be a lot of clashing no matter who won and it is interesting when Presidential Derangement Syndrome flips sides.

     I thought there was no really good answer in 2016; the judiciary's getting an influx of Federalist Society-approved judges, at least, and as for the rest--  Time will tell.  Outside of appointed offices, I'm of the opinion that the scope and power of the Presidency is overrated, especially by Presidents and the The Press that covers them; the real action is in Congress, swarming like a busy anthill, complex and difficult to parse.  People don't like that; reporter or Average Citizen, they like to hear about Caesar: one man, easy to follow, noble or venal, Nero, Augustus or Caligula, hate them or love them, it doesn't matter, because it's easier to feel than to think.

     It's a lot more difficult to be fooled if you think rather than feel, though.  Why be anyone's fool? 

6 comments:

JPD said...

Well written. Why should they think? That actually takes some time and effort. It FEELS so good to hate. No effort in feelings, lay back, enjoy the moment. Lay all your perceived problems on that person. Endless fun.

Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...

The Executive and the Legislature have been trading places for a long time. This will probably continue until time shall be no more, much like the solar cycle. The Executive happens to be in the ascendant at the moment. If Congress ever gets their act together, I can see it taking that role back. Unfortunately (though in all fairness, in merely my own personal opinion), the best way to move things back toward Congress will require something that Congress isn't all that keen to do: Repeal the 17th Amendment.

The Senate as constituted in modern times is a joke and everyone who has any sense of history knows it. The intent of the Framers was never to have powerful Senators popularly elected and ensconced in incumbency for decades; their intent was for Senators to represent their States, under the watchful eye if not actual control of their governors and legislatures, and for those positions to turn over on a regular basis. Fix that and things might start moving back toward "co-equal".

Monty James said...

Wise words from Fuzzy. And the best reasons to vote against Clintons are things such as taking Chinese Communist money for his campaign, and decontrolling dual use satellite launching technology, or allowing 20% of the nation's uranium supply to be acquired by an adversary power and having tens of millions of dollars show up in their charity grift. I try very hard not to think of the Clinton sex goings-on.

pigpen51 said...

I did vote for Trump, but I did so knowingly. I live in Michigan, and knew that our state could be important in the outcome of the election. And I simply could not fathom Hillary and her crowd running the country again.

Roberta X said...

Pigpen, I think there were a *lot* of not-Hillary voters in 2016, and they were not recognized as such by either side.

pigpen51 said...

I actually dislike voting just to keep someone out, instead of voting for a candidate that I support.
It is my intention to become a single issue voter at the federal level, and only voting for pro gun candidates.
Instead, for my political involvement, I plan on becoming more active both locally and state wide. I think that I have a better chance of effecting change, in this type of a race, then I do nationally, where my vote is so diluted that it seldom matters if I even b