I am so bored with this whole drama of the shutdown and the approaching debt ceiling thing……it is to the point where NO one knows what and who are the bad guys…….there are more excuses than hairs on my butt…..
There are many trying to find an explanation for what is happening to our government. Most of those are pundits that want a ideological twist makes better copy. They analyze and push some pretend problem and they hang on like a Pitt Bull with a leg bone.. few want to look at the real problem, the real dysfunction.
My thought is nothing like that of the MSM….to me it looks like tribalism, the tribal mentality. Tribal mentality is when loyalties lie with family, clan and then nation. I have updated the concept for 21st century US politics….whereas family/clan equates to party and/or group. Think about Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria…..once the government becomes dysfunctional violence ensues. Without a change of attitude or logic the US could be in for a violent decade in the near future……..
In the early days of our nation we Americans call ourselves New Yorkers or Pennsylvanians, etc….there was NO nation identity. This slowly changed after the War and the implementation of the Constitution—–we started thinking of ourselves as Americans. But today that process is slowly reverting back to the early days of our beginning. We NO longer search for solutions to problems of the entire country….now we work for what is best for for ourselves personally not collectively. The whole idea boils down…as only as I am okay, screw everybody else…….
The voter now puts themselves into camps controlled by propaganda….lies, misinformation and slogans and build a form of hatred for all others.
None of this abortion we called government will ever be productive again——that is not until the voters once again see themselves as part of a nation and not some tribe and start electing people that will work for the country first and foremost and stop supporting douche bags with selfish agendas…….To survive we must once again see ourselves as Americans.
The US is looking like some third world Banana Republic…….egotistical, arrogant leaders, a dysfunctional government and a population that is too cowardly to step up….in other words….the people need to become AMERICANS again!
Not sure I agree with you on this one Dr. Chuq. Again, the vocal extremist minority in this country get way too much press but they do not represent this nation as a whole and likely never will.
Their success lies within the frame work of having self-interested billionaires funding their groups to disrupt the democratic process and spreading disinformation that confuses most Americans. When facts can be sufficiently laid out then we see that most people are not like bat-shit crazy people like those on the extreme right – our Tea Party gang.
And please, don’t become part of the meme that suggests both sides are responsible for this shutdown or the impending debt limit crisis. This squarely falls at the feet of the TeaParty-controlled GOP who use hostage taking methods to get what they want when they can’t achieve it through the normal democratic processes that have served our government for over two hundred years.
For all their talk about honoring the Constitution, these people really want to go back to the pre-constitution days and live once again under the Articles of Confederation that gave each state equal power and say in how any form of central government should operate
With the hatred spewed daily…….I still think we are sectioning ourselves off and that cannot lead to anything good…..I will agree that the present crap is the fault of the extreme right……and you are correct about the central government…..without it we will become one of the dysfunctional states we laugh at in the Middle East and South America……in the end it will not be anything good for the people of the country……