“Mistakes Were Made” 3

3 comments

1. George Smith

   February 6, 2014 at 2:41 pm

   Hmmm, fugitive from Akismet. Git ’em. Good list. Demonstrates “we” now reliably choose to be on the wrong side of history in every choice.

    
2. Frank

   February 6, 2014 at 11:39 pm

   Who, exactly, is the “fugitive from Akismet”?

    

   I don’t know much about Dan Simpson other than what’s in his bio at the Post-Gazette, but he does seem to be sane, if rather ponderous in a mainstream sort of way.  We need more sane.

    

   I’m glad I’m old.  I fear for this “noble experiment” and do not want to be here to witness its end.

    
3. George Smith

   February 7, 2014 at 12:22 pm

   It has ended.  Simpson knows it, too, but his investments will protect him from a bleak end. No shining city on the hill, always a joke as Reagan put the country through a recession and presided over the destruction of heavy industry and labor, but pockets of riches and their servants separated by national slum.  A forty year slump is a bit long to be just a -slump-, more an exhibition of increasing entropy. As soon as the present administration lets out slight talk about paying people more the well-mobilized forces of evil immediately take real action to whip the poor and jobless.  If I were the president I’d go on primetime tv to say ‘what a lousy deal. I just talk about giving people a little more spending money and the other side wastes not a day or a week in taking money away from those who have little or none.’ So when I get mails from from the progressive groups or Elizabeth Warren, bless her heart, saying this is not what we believe in, I am reminded of the old Lone Ranger joke, “What you mean ‘we’ kemeosabe?” You see it is ‘lawless’ to say that you want to raise the minimum wage for a paltry number of federal service part-time servants. Nothing makes a difference as long as the other side retains any power because they know how to leverage it from even the most unpopular positions. And nothing will make a difference as long as people who vote put into power those who despise government.