Reply #43: The altar of private enterprise [View All]

[PurityOfEssence]

Thou shalt do NOTHING outside of non-governmental commerce.

Well, that really worked out, didn't it?

"Promote the General Welfare" is literally in the preamble of the Constitution as part of the description of what the government's supposed to do.

Quite frankly, he's a compensation president; the only way one can find out what he really IS is to stack up all the things he isn't: he's not a candy-assed peacenik, he's not a big-government liberal, he's not a secularist, he's not "partisan", he's not a gay-enabler, he's not an environmental "extremist" and he's not particularly pro-regulation.

Who, if anyone, IS this guy? Does HE even know? Does that even matter to him so long as he's lauded as the font of all that's good and whatever AND gets re-elected?

We actually deserve this: we elected a person instead of a leader of a movement with specific policy aims. We bought into fluffy vagueness and blithe homilies of a Pied Piper who we were enthusiastically swept into turning off our logic gateways to surf pure emotional frenzy.

This Francis of Assisi, dove-accompanied horseshit shows itself for what it is: the Emperor's new halo.

The next few weeks will prove his mettle once and for all, and it's not a foregone result: he needs to realize that there's no turning back, and he has to call the enemy the enemy and fight every inch of the way. He needs to vilify them and bar no holds. It's a big leap, but he's a smart guy.

Sadly, the problem with that last bit of wistful longing is that it's premised upon his being anything but a rather right-of-center ultramoderate corporatist. I'm caught in the fantasy musings of modern American politics, too: seemingly NOBODY posits any scenarios that make any realistic sense at all, so I just want to get in step with the rabble.