Is this really "the lowest point in our nation’s history that they can remember"? by SIGNYM

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Is this really "the lowest point in our nation’s history that they can remember"?

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Saturday, June 11, 2022 9:11 AM

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I'm not sure it's the "lowest point" but it may be the closest to actual change since Dems decided to represent the transnational elite (under Bill Clinton).

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Democrats will be lucky if the party even survives until 2030.
One can only hope. Not that I think the GOP is any better,

This is exactly what my Dad said to me when I told him this.

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but one of the parties HAS to collpase if we're to get out of this tweedledum-tweedledee paradigm. If the Dems are stupid enough to collapse first, that's a step in the right direction.

And that is loosely what my reply to him was.

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Saturday, June 11, 2022 9:17 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm not sure it's the "lowest point" but it may be the closest to actual change since Dems decided to represent the transnational elite (under Bill Clinton).

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Democrats will be lucky if the party even survives until 2030.
One can only hope. Not that I think the GOP is any better, but one of the parties HAS to collpase if we're to get out of this tweedledum-tweedledee paradigm. If the Dems are stupid enough to collapse first, that's a step in the right direction.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

Turning the country into a parliamentary republic, with many major political parties rather than two, would probably be a good idea, but there’s no way to go from here to there.

The American system tends to disperse power to neither Congress nor the presidency. That is the structural weakness of American high-level governance. Consider the FDA, whose performance during the pandemic has been annoyingly sub-par and which has found itself at odds with both the Trump and Biden administrations.

The elected president could try to just run roughshod over FDA decision-making, but that’s considered inappropriate. The appropriate alternative would be to pass legislation directing this or that to happen. But in the American system, if Biden went hat in hand to Congress asking for changes to the FDA, two things would happen. One is some members of Congress would for one reason or another fight for the status quo. But the other is that Republicans just don’t particularly want to give Biden wins. So some members would hold out for much more dramatic reforms than the ones Biden is asking for. Others would demand unrelated policy concessions. Probably nothing would come of it. And it would take time on the legislative calendar away from the all-important assembly-line of judicial nominations. So the agencies just kind of sit there, occasionally meddled with and occasionally ignored, but never really governed in a coherent way.

And I think this is less tyranny of the deep state than simple inertia and drift. The United States does not have a particularly empowered civil service in international terms, but it does have legislative institutions that are very cumbersome. If you go back in time to the year 1900, the difficulty of legislating served the ideological goal of small government. But today the government already does a ton of stuff, and the inability to change anything is not the same as the state having a light footprint.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, June 11, 2022 12:13 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...

At least a third viable party would be nice. They could focus their appeal to the moderates from both parties.

My votes are almost always for the "least bad" candidate. Almost always - can't think of a time when I was excited and happy to vote for a candidate for who they were. The fringes of both parties are usually the loudest, most active. I seriously doubt they represent the majority of the people that vote for them. If they do it's not by much. A new voice, new approach would at least stir things up. In reality though, they probably wouldn't get any funding! O-well.

Fwiw, anyone else notice that the Dems still don't have anyone standing up saying, "I am running for president!" Or, better still, "I am going to BE the next president and sweep the floor with any Republican who opposes me!" It would be nice to have a Dem with some stones for a change.

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Saturday, June 11, 2022 10:40 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Support for the DNC is collpasing faster than the Ukrainian Army!

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Nah... the problem isn't the two-part system. The problem is that politicians are bought and paid for.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Saturday, June 11, 2022 10:44 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Trump wasn't.

And any Democrat without blinders can look back on Trump's 4 years as pretty freakin' good now after 1 1/2 years of the Biden* shitshow.

No new wars. No disrespect from foreign leaders that had any teeth to them at all. Cheap gas. Good economy until the Dems went nuclear and unleashed a fake pandemic on the world to rig an election that they're seriously regretting rigging right now. The only thing bad about the Trump years was the incessant negative media coverage and lies about what was happening and their fan fiction of what was going to happen.

Thanks Joe*. Thanks Democrats. You've fucked everything up so badly that a lot of the things our Government has been doing wrong for decades have no choice but to stop.

And don't even get me started on the long overdue backlash to the woke media narrative that's going to finally put all of those pink haired potbelly goblin vampires in their place for good.

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Thursday, November 24, 2022 1:12 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

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ics-biden-trump-what-result-means/101642520

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Monday, September 4, 2023 5:54 AM

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Monday, September 4, 2023 1:36 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Every time I think "This is it, it's our low point, it can't possibly get worse"...it does.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

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Monday, December 11, 2023 11:15 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Biden gets negative ratings on Israel-Hamas war, economy in new CBS News poll

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Thursday, March 7, 2024 7:37 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Wharton professor predicts 2025 financial meltdown with $34 trillion debt set to 'derail the next administration'

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