Reply #9: I hear you -- but for me [View All]

[jobendorfer]

the political system has gone far beyond "dysfunctional".

For me, goverment is "dysfunctional" when it doesn't work very well, problems aren't being solved, and the politicians are intractably locked into their various positions, but the conflicts are about real issues, grounded in reality.

I would describe the process in Washington today as "delusional".
We're bankrupting ourselves with wars, but nobody talks about that.
We're consuming oil in the way that heroin addicts go through dope, but nobody talks about that.
We're destroying civil liberties in the name of the war on drugs, but nobody ever asks why half of America wants to be stoned out of its gourd.
Unemployment is officially at 10 or 11 percent, in real terms probably half again that or more, nobody talks about that.
Wall Street paid in bonuses -- bonuses! -- enough money to balance the all of the state budgets. Nobody talks about that.

Instead, we're having conversations about whether or not the President is a non-native American closet muslim,
and whether or not we can solve our fiscal problems by electing a guy who ran a ***casino*** into bankruptcy.

Molly Ivins called it correctly before she passed away. The fundamental divide in the United States is no longer
about left versus right, liberal versus conservative, democrats versus republicans, etc. It's about sane versus insane.

J.