The mental state of left-wing voters and their relationship with reality is very concerning, and the question is whether and how a return to normalcy can occur.
To put it another way, the crucial question is who/whom, who does and who dies?
My guess is that the issue gets settled by the decision-making strata just below the peak shot-callers (Obama, Pelosi and the networks that command the regime). The regime relies on the loyalty of this element and cannot endure without it. The only constraint this strata faces is that the legacy of a generation of wars is a mass of veterans who may demand a say in how they are governed. Everybody else will watch it on TV.
Ballotopedia state that "as the 2020 RNC was improperly convened, operating under Robert's rules of order and the consensus of its members and not by charter, it ceased to exist after 2020" and requests any alternative interpretation to be submitted to the editors.
These are normal elections. Even shambling masses keeping Senate seats past brain dead status has happened for at least as long as living memory. Election steals are nothing new nor is lawfare and unequal justice. There have been many innocent sent to rot in prisons, the historical majority being black males who would otherwise be non-absentee fathers.
That the presidency really means so little and constitutional rule is nearly entirely absent. Perhaps that is a change but the decades of the welfare state leave no one very concerned about it. What instrument was Nero playing as Rome burned?
I agree with the author’s sentiments, with the following exception:
“Elevating him and then subsequently running him to lose” — The implication of this statement is that some agency directed DeSantis to run for president when in fact it was his own ego and lust for power. He simply could not wait to finish his term as governor and then run on his record, and that revealed something about him which many found distasteful:
Just as Sarah Palin lost a lot of support when she abdicated her duties as governor to join the McCain mafia in the hope of using that as a stepping stone to the presidency, DeSantis lost a lot of support when he decided to run for president instead of doing the job that he was elected to do. It became clear to the public that these are career politicians who are more interested in serving themselves than their state, and they only viewed the governorship as a pathway to power rather than a responsibility which they had voluntarily taken on (and had some obligation to fulfill.)
Obama lost a lot of support because he told so many lies and broke so many campaign promises. His administration was anything BUT "scandal free." And many were ready to punish him by voting him out of office. Romney was positioned to win on that basis alone, as the "lesser of two evils" candidate, but he lost support from independents just before the election when he called the police on his neighbors for smoking pot in their back yard. Independents are a larger constituency than either the Democrats or Republicans, and many of them feared that Romney would create a federal army to impose his religion on everyone else. (Bear in mind that half of the U.S. population has at least tried cannabis, and do not think they deserve to be treated like criminals.)
Like many before him, Trump often panders to the religious right because they are so gullible (as detailed in Kuo’s exposé “Tempting Faith”) …but in an environment where every illegal method that CAN be used to deny him a second term WILL be employed, Trump is compelled to make appeals to libertarians — though he probably has no intention of ending prohibition or abolishing the income tax (which funds all of the federal agencies that exercise powers reserved to the states by the tenth amendment.) I think the author is right that we have crossed some kind of rubicon and politics will only become more dirty and vicious — but the system has always been rigged against independents & libertarians, so the more that things change the more they stay the same.
The issue is no one white has the balls to stand up and say it's time to go.
The mental state of left-wing voters and their relationship with reality is very concerning, and the question is whether and how a return to normalcy can occur.
And….. ?
The question of the age.
Not really, it’s Do or Die and that’s the eternal fate of Man.
To put it another way, the crucial question is who/whom, who does and who dies?
My guess is that the issue gets settled by the decision-making strata just below the peak shot-callers (Obama, Pelosi and the networks that command the regime). The regime relies on the loyalty of this element and cannot endure without it. The only constraint this strata faces is that the legacy of a generation of wars is a mass of veterans who may demand a say in how they are governed. Everybody else will watch it on TV.
Let’s hope you’re right.
About the Veterans.
Although there’s other options…
…. Off our own soil, conflict is optional. This isn’t hypothetical, it’s observed. Modus Vivendi.
Or slow walking to nowhere, slow floating in the case of Gaza Pier.
None in American government can complain of this… it being their own preference, revealed.
Someone’s got to be the adults in the room, we’re told. Well it’s down to the Triarii then… (most seasoned Roman Veterans, dear readers).
Ballotopedia state that "as the 2020 RNC was improperly convened, operating under Robert's rules of order and the consensus of its members and not by charter, it ceased to exist after 2020" and requests any alternative interpretation to be submitted to the editors.
These are normal elections. Even shambling masses keeping Senate seats past brain dead status has happened for at least as long as living memory. Election steals are nothing new nor is lawfare and unequal justice. There have been many innocent sent to rot in prisons, the historical majority being black males who would otherwise be non-absentee fathers.
That the presidency really means so little and constitutional rule is nearly entirely absent. Perhaps that is a change but the decades of the welfare state leave no one very concerned about it. What instrument was Nero playing as Rome burned?
I agree with the author’s sentiments, with the following exception:
“Elevating him and then subsequently running him to lose” — The implication of this statement is that some agency directed DeSantis to run for president when in fact it was his own ego and lust for power. He simply could not wait to finish his term as governor and then run on his record, and that revealed something about him which many found distasteful:
Just as Sarah Palin lost a lot of support when she abdicated her duties as governor to join the McCain mafia in the hope of using that as a stepping stone to the presidency, DeSantis lost a lot of support when he decided to run for president instead of doing the job that he was elected to do. It became clear to the public that these are career politicians who are more interested in serving themselves than their state, and they only viewed the governorship as a pathway to power rather than a responsibility which they had voluntarily taken on (and had some obligation to fulfill.)
Obama lost a lot of support because he told so many lies and broke so many campaign promises. His administration was anything BUT "scandal free." And many were ready to punish him by voting him out of office. Romney was positioned to win on that basis alone, as the "lesser of two evils" candidate, but he lost support from independents just before the election when he called the police on his neighbors for smoking pot in their back yard. Independents are a larger constituency than either the Democrats or Republicans, and many of them feared that Romney would create a federal army to impose his religion on everyone else. (Bear in mind that half of the U.S. population has at least tried cannabis, and do not think they deserve to be treated like criminals.)
Like many before him, Trump often panders to the religious right because they are so gullible (as detailed in Kuo’s exposé “Tempting Faith”) …but in an environment where every illegal method that CAN be used to deny him a second term WILL be employed, Trump is compelled to make appeals to libertarians — though he probably has no intention of ending prohibition or abolishing the income tax (which funds all of the federal agencies that exercise powers reserved to the states by the tenth amendment.) I think the author is right that we have crossed some kind of rubicon and politics will only become more dirty and vicious — but the system has always been rigged against independents & libertarians, so the more that things change the more they stay the same.
https://rumble.com/v50x2jo-bannon-its-time-to-lock-down-the-fourth-branch-of-government.html
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/the-case-against-administrative-law.php
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/3-layers-technocratic-state