June 06, 2025
We Are Now In the Stage of Republican Governance
...where team "R" is on the cusp of, if not victory, at least major progress. This is the point where Republicans traditionally stop, reflect upon the hard fought political battles that got them this far, the hopes and dreams of their long tormented constituents, who might finally get a measure of what they've been promised since 1982, the awful consequences for the nation if they fail, and having so contemplated their journey, the stakes and their cause, adjust their ties, take deep breath, step forward with grim determination, step into a kiddie pool full of gasoline light it on fire and begin beating each other mercilessly with buffalo chips.
HOW THE F#%k CAN THIS HAVE POSSIBLY....HAPPENED.....um.....AGAIN?
There is some hope to be sure, it can be found over at Issues and Insights, deep within the narrowing corridors of the editorial boards sanity. There is even more solace to be found in the foetid cesspits of a similar mental instability I like to refer to as Tuckertardation.
But, those of us who have been through this before know that it's neither super-genius, nor the dark machinations of an Illuminati controlled M.I.C. Rather it's men with agency who believe in something strongly and have different opinions. Tyrannical movements tend to purge those with strong opinions and convictions. They rely upon the agreeable, the compliant, the front-of-the-class-kids who can be relied upon to follow every regulation and helpfully tell the authorities where the non-compliant people are. Despots rely on those who "just don't want any trouble" to guard the camps in which they collect those who dare say "No!"
This also means that tyranny has a major advantage, because they have much better discipline in their ranks. Theirs is not particularly good at innovation, but for pursuing the goals of the clusterB personalities that inevitably float to the top of the commodes that are most top-down, technocratic political movements, they are frequently superior. Despotism is, as Fisher Ames is said to have said..
...like a sleek craft, it sails along well until some bumbling captain runs it into the rocks. Democracy, on the other hand, is like a raft. It never goes down but, dammit, your feet are always wet.
In my experience (note: I am a focus group of 1) this has been the way things play out. The cLiberal, Libertarian, & Conservative, types have strong convictions and are individualists. The progressives have whatever the most recent encyclical from Blue Sky tells them their convictions are, and they are collectivists that crave being part of the group. Things will almost ALWAYS go smoother on the other side, regarding internal discussions...until it doesn't...and when it doesn't it's because their fashion oriented, herd-like mentality predicated against speaking up while the aforementioned Blue-Sky encyclicals compounded in an orgy of virtue signaling and fashionable one-upmanship into an avalanche of sub-optimalization and someone finally has the temerity to notice that they are going off a cliff.
So no. I'm not holding out some forlorn hope that this is not an epic mess. I've seen this happen too many times. My preferred candidate has never won a primary. This is par for the course and part of being the side that's more free.
This well and truly suck, but if it does not result in utter defeat it can lead to better, more refined policies and better ultimate outcomes.
That up there is a pretty big "if".
There is no denying that this is a dumpster fire that has escalated because of the immense egos of two men whose discourse is rather less erudite, philosophical, and profound than we would like.
For THAT discussion, go to Nick Frietas...
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