Diary: Snatches of Blue

[degringolade]

Today's Spirit Animal

People take me to task for not thinking that Trump is either a.)senile, b.)a nazi, c.)corrupt, or d.)stupid.  Of course there are a plethora of other conditions/labels where others peel the label and slap the label on the image that lives in their mind, but here in Orygun the above labels are the predominant.

I take a different point of view, simply put, there really aren’t any “good” choices that he can make that will make everything settle down and return to the image of the past that lies in people's brains.  My take on this is that such a thing simply isn’t possible.  I take a somewhat jaundiced view of the nature of government here  in America during my lifetime.  For the first half (approximately 36 years from 1953 to 1989) we were in a condition where there was enough money sloshing around that everyone and everything got a payout, it might have been short of the demands, but nearly everyone got enough to make them shut up for a while.  That was the nature of politics in America.  

Things started to change in the 90’s.  The amount of money spent to keep people shut up kept rising, but the money coming into the big wallet in the sky began to dry up.  Even worse, the rich folks lawyers started figuring out how the rich folk didn’t have to pay their fair share.  Even worse, the rich folks figured out that they could make a profit by loaning money to the government to pay for the programs that the taxes they should have been paying used to fund.  So the money is increasingly held by the rich and they “loan” the money to the government to provide beads and trinkets to the natives.  They make a healthy profit to add to their already very-healthy pile of loot and just keep adding to their control.

I realize that you probably won’t like the next part, but a lot of what is considered “rights” in today’s America is really just a set of demands that the government borrow more money to pay for shit that is desired so that you will shut up.  But everything you receive this way puts you deeper and deeper in the control of the government and their corporate masters.  I am thinking that these “mind-forged manacles” will get lighter if you stop asking for more and figure out how to get by with less.  

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quoting again

[chefxh]

Again I quote Marley's ghost: "It is a ponderous chain."

Poor bastard

[degringolade]

We are in a helluva fix on this side of the pond. Nobody on either side wants to admit that someone, somewhere is gonna have to live on less than their cherished dreams. All they are talking about is that someone else has to do what they are told. But no one wants to be that other someone.

'Tis a pity.