No More Clinton, No More Bush...
Bush. Clinton. Clinton. Bush. Bush. C'mon, what is this, a hereditary dynasty? That's 20 years, TWENTY years, 1989 through 2009 where two families dominated american politics. What does this say? What meaning can we deduce from it all?I have no idea, but I will say this. I have a general sense it is very much for the best that this alternating familial hand off of American power will not continue.
Americans are weird birds, no doubt about it. All the while espousing the most egalitarian, democratic ideals, Americans seem to desire at the most visceral level some kind of monarchy, a dictatorial, iron-fisted presence in DC. The same people who vocally support free speech, but seek to silence speech with which they do not agree. The same people who believe in the fourth amendment, and yet are willing to toss it away at the slightest provocation. The same people who believe we're all equal, and are more than willing to rush in and try to find a legal avenue to prevent some people from merely getting married.
I've been an American all my life, and I don't pretend for a moment to understand the mixed motivations of these people. Some of them seem so twisted, so invested in hatred and bigotry, they seem like people I don't even know. And yet, another day, they are us. How to understand, how to integrate?
But here's what I know. The downward trajectory for American society has been in play for decades. The whole IT/technology marketplace has concealed some serious systemic flaws, but underneath it all the US was plunging ahead on an utterly unsustainable path.
And it was only making it worse that the same set of DC Insiders continued to control the levers of power. It's going to be dramatically better, and better for all of us, to have new blood in power in DC. And please. Shall we never, ever again allow just two families to take ultimate control. It's what the worst dictatorships do, and it always fails, for all the same reasons, over and over again....
posted by mikey @ 10:18 AM
3 Comments:
If you want to go on a date with the AG, you have to blog more.
And not about stuff like hating on HRC. Oh noes. No. No. No.
mikey and AG.
AG and mikey.
Youtube the date. That's all I'm sayin.
I smell a Big Daddy Complex here.
The dynastic trend goes back through the whole length of US history. Walkers, Delanos, Bushes, Jeffersons, Roosevelts ... Carter & Kennedy are about the only two NOT to come from the hardcore Aristo Elite Registry.
Which may help explain why Obama's gotten such a "Warm Friendly American Welcome" from the Beltway Cabal - it's not just that he's the wrong shade. They might find it in their hearts to ignore that, if only he'd just had the "good taste" to marry into their Magic Circle of specialness. No, his crime is far more heinous: he's not on The List, dahling.
- jim
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