The Refrain (sing it children!)

Greetings good citizen, today we are once again treated to keen observations of Mr. Krugman, the Nobel Laureate and a regular columnist at the NY Times

For while we may congratulate ourselves on the strength of our political institutions, in the end institutions consist of people and fulfill their roles only as long as the people in them respect their intended purpose. Rule of law depends not just on what is written down, but also on the behavior of those who interpret and enforce that rule.

If these people don’t regard themselves as servants of the law first, partisans second, if they won’t subordinate their political goals to their duty to preserve the system, laws become meaningless and only power matters.

And what we’re seeing in America — what we’ve actually been seeing for years, although much of the news media and political establishment has refused to acknowledge it — is an invasion of our institutions by right-wing partisans whose loyalty is to party, not principle. This invasion is corroding the Republic, and the corrosion is already very far advanced.

I say “right-wing” advisedly. There are bad people in both parties, as there are in all walks of life. But the parties are structurally different. The Democratic Party is a loose coalition of interest groups, but the modern Republican Party is dominated by “movement conservatism,” a monolithic structure held together by big money — often deployed stealthily — and the closed intellectual ecosystem of Fox News and other partisan media. And the people who rise within this movement are, to a far greater degree than those on the other side, apparatchiks, political loyalists who can be counted on not to stray from the party line.

As the situation deteriorates even the pundits are no longer 'holding back' [perhaps because they are finally recognizing that the majority of the voting public is truly 'confused' by those who wrap themselves in the flag than do decidedly anti-american acts [like shutting down the government to get funding for the border wall. Only the Alzheimer's brigade of those of us collecting our bought and paid for retirement checks thinks the border wall is a 'sound' idea...because they are already batshit crazy and so is the Asshat shutting down the government not for the wall but the billions that will be spent building the foolish thing, needlessly.

Once again you have to ask yourself, 'how stupid are you?' [How 'loyal' are you to 'the party' and how much damage will you let 'your party' do to the nation for the sake of, literally, SELF-ENRICHMENT?]

Lot of money to be pocketed by the winners of the border wall contract and that's ALL they are interested in. El Trumpo has already been paid to do his part, all he has to do is use the office handed to him by the scammers to hold the nation hostage.

Now ask yourself again...how stupid are you?

[Still not ready to revolt though, right?]

It's too cold to go out and 'protest' and besides, protests are WORTHLESS. You have to shut the nation down to truly get the self-interested's attention...and that means the Truckers.

Sorry to put it on you boys but the people of this nation need you...and your probably sick of being threatened by the boss if you're late one more time [like there's anything YOU can do about it with whole states using their traffic forces as income streams.] Worse, that's the kind of 'infection' that can spill over into neighboring states because 'party politics' is EVERYWHERE and most of those boys owe their jobs to the people whose love muscle they sucked for the appointment. Once 'in', shit has a habit of rolling downhill.

So I think it's high time they learn who is really 'in charge'. [If shit don't get there when it needs to be there, EVERYTHING STOPS. (I'm looking at YOU tanker drivers...)] No gas is no go.

But hey, it's Christmas time and you wouldn't want to disappoint the kiddies, waiting all year for those presents...NOW stop and ask yourself HOW F'N STUPID am I? If you thought for even a few seconds all you'd need to do is imagine how happy their future would be if they graduated High School and moved into THEIR OWN PLACE, with a guaranteed job under their belts! [They'd like that a whole lot better than the fidget spinner you got them, right?]

That is Not going to happen under the current system that makes you borrow your future from a bank with a job you CAN'T rely on. If you don't want your kids to become future SUICIDES maybe you love them enough to give them a fighting chance...what do you say? We're counting on you and so are they.

Thanks once again for opening your mind to what's going on and taking positive action to stop the feckless from paying the other half to murder the rest of us.

Gegner