Politics as usual

We always brag that we have the best political system in the world. Everybody deserves to live in a Democracy we say.  Now the world laughs at us at our claims of superiority. They’ve laughed before but I’ve always taken their laughter as jealously, pure envy. Not this time. It is indeed pure folly to think that this is the way to run a country. What’s going on, have our leaders been kidnapped and replaced by bots. I keep waiting for my wife to stop me during one of my rants and tell me “it’s only a movie”. She is not cooperating, doesn’t she know how much I long to hear those words. My rants become more frequent and virulent, I shake with incredulity, I foam at the mouth, nothing. This is real. I don’t want it to be real but it’s real.

We have a crisis. Is this the beginning of the end of America as we know it. Are we an emerging third world power, correction a third world power. This fight between the President and the Republicans has real ramifications. The president cannot give in, the Republican House plus Ted Cruz won’t give in. I wish I could see both sides as having a point, but shutting the government down and threatening default is serious. When destroying our country is seen as a great bargaining chip by our elected leaders, something is very wrong. When John Kerry tells other world leaders this is no big deal and President Obama says that to us Americans, they are wrong, very wrong .  Then we have congressmen saying  a default on our debt is no big deal, we can just pick and choose which debts to pay. A short term spending bill will not restore my faith. I know that our intelligentsia or talking heads as I call them see this as  good theatre as a good storyline and nothing else. I disagree , it is a much more serious problem going forward than they see. I know, the leaders will muddle through this problem until a month or two when they do it again. They’ll look backwards and tell us move on there’s nothing to see here, we’ve done this before and everything turned out fine. But they will be wrong, the world is changing and while we are fighting to the death internally it will pass us by.

Our leadership is blind and so are we. Our problem is not the debt, or entitlements, or abortion , or whatever real or imagined problem that politicians hoist upon us to get elected in the future. Our problem is the foxes are guarding the hen house. The destruction of the middle class will be the destruction of America. The time is nigh. So let’s keep letting our leaders lead us no where while we take solace in the fact that the sand covering our heads feels so soothing.