Shine Perrishing Republic

According to the Washington Post, one of the reasons the Democrats lost control of the Senate was friction between the Obama White House and the DNc, especially in regards to fund raising. The conventional wisdom is that nothing has really changed, that it's just going to be more partisan gridlock. That's like telling a morbidly obese person that another bag of potato chips can't do any harm. The fact that gridlock has become the norm can only be pernicious in a country with as many problems as this one. A political system that can't solve or face it's problems is in trouble, and may well be headed for doom.

The organizationl inepititude of the Democrats extends back nearly 40 years. After Nixon's resignation in 1974, it seemed there might be a resurgence of progressive politics in America. Instead, when the election of 1976 came around, all the Democrats had to offer was Jimmy Carter. It has become fashionalbe to say that in order to be a proper Democrat one must be a member of the Jimmy Carter Fan Club. Now, Jimmy Carter might be a very nice man, but he was also a very ineffectual leader, and his bad decisions led to the belief that "Democrats Can't Govern."

The basic failure of Barack Obama is that his real role model wasn't FDR of LBJ but Bill Clinton. Clinton is supposedly the only "successful" Democrat of the last half century although it seems in retrospect that the only thing Clinton succeeded at was getting re-elected to a second term.

What's going to happen next is fairly predictable. The GOP will install Jeb Bush as President in 2016, and I say install because no Democrat will be able to beat him. Not Hilary Rodham Clinton, who is now the person everyone hates, or creaky Joe Biden. Once in the White House, Jeb, like his father and brother, will launch a series of wars. Against whom, is not important, he'll just throw darts at a map. At this point, the dominant paradigm of low taxes and reckless warmongering, will probably sink the US economy. Europe already bankrupted itself propping up the US economy during Bush II's Presidency. China isn't going to back America. In fact if China and Russia get their heads together, they could sink the US dollar, and the US economy.

Ultimately, the USA will go down in history as just another empire that bankrupted itself in useless wars.