You know, we all have murderers within us. If you think you don’t, you have not looked far enough. And we have saints in us. I don’t think the saint is as different from the murderer as you might think. Both are obsessive. I think health lies in the middle somewhere, where choices are choices, and are made freely and without manic energy of any sort.
And I will wonder about our national tidal wall, especially the one which separates self identifying “Liberals” of conscience from the open realization that they have slowly been led into a world which is nothing like what they signed up for.
Democrats become Democrats because they want to help people. They want to use the power of government to oppose plutocrats, and racists, and bigots of all sorts. But now plutocrats, racists, and bigots run the party.
To take one example: Democrats always claim their economic policies are better. At the level of theory, this may or may not be true, as with all theories, but the underlying assumption is that they want to see Americans living in prosperity and plenty.
Under Trump, the economy is booming, and national Democrats leaders hate it. They either credit Obama, farcically, or ignore it. Mostly they ignore it.
What morally sane person, who genuinely wants what is best for America, would oppose economic growth–growth in jobs, in new jobs, in wages?
People who think this is good have to ask: where are the Democrats in all this? They seem, if anything, to view this as a DISASTER, because it makes the reelection of Trump more likely.
But here is the question: what possible principle can animate them, other than power, if this is in fact the case? They don’t want prosperity: they want problems, to which they can offer theoretical solutions which never pan out, and which can then be used for reelection, by claiming that if not for the nasty Republicans, their idiotic plan A or plan B would have worked. The only solution is reelection.
And they do this across DECADES. They’ve been saying the same things for 40-50 years nationally, and even longer at the local and State levels.
I have to ask, when do the graduates of Oberlin, and Stanford, and Williams, and Swarthmore and even Harvard ask: “what is it I actually believe?”, and find that their party deserted them long ago.
Obviously, many if not most of them are so far in they literally can’t imagine leaving the Matrix, but not all of them. Not all of them.