I don't have it in me to rant much about this farce of a government shutdown/threat of U.S. Debt default hootenanny going on at the present time. Other than to say that there is this weird idea floating around at the time of writing that this shutdown is the fault of both parties. Now, I certainly don't like purporting that the Dumocrats are sweet, blameless, children caught in the crossfire of a war betwixt the Republicans and tea party enthusiasts but I DO believe they had next to nothing to do with actually going forward with this shutdown.
Meanwhile conservative friends post things like this:
So, basically Obama is a "baby" for not throwing up his hands and essentially caving in to insane people who have chosen to drop to the floor of congress and have a fit and close up shop until they get their way? An entire wing of the government has taken the rest hostage and shut it all down so that they can make some sort of ill defined point about stupid legislation? Legislation that has been in the hopper for several years, debated, voted on ad naseum AND constitutionally verified by their own cockamamie, conservative, supreme court...but it's up to Obama to "do his job" and "quit being a baby?!" The whole shut down is all his fault? This from the side that literally took their ball and went home, stamping their feet and essentially perpetrating a fraud on the American people with their deeply unpopular, unsupported, and essentially unwanted motherfucking stupid bullshit.
There is no reasoning with insanity. No constructive, collaborative decision making and no fair and balanced governing. There is no progress to be made in this culture of hate and seriously bipolar, stubborn, minority control. Yes, this system is entirely broken and those of us on the fences and fringes are exactly right when we say it's time to vote them all out. Trouble is we put these clowns in and the only other people willing to run for office these days are more clowns. Corporate types, lawyers and other assorted rich narcissist who excel at fundraising and hobnobbing with other, more rich, assholes who cling to decisive, self-interested, horseshit to benefit other extremely rich assholes. It's a god damn clown car snake eating it's own clown car snake tail and there simply seems to be nothing at all anyone can do about it because "Average honest Joe or Jane" will never have the money, time, energy, fundraising ability to ever, ever fairly compete in any sort of meaningful election that would or could make some sort of difference.
You know what? Fuck it. Just keep it shut down and let's default and see what happens. Maybe the resulting cluster-fuck will be the "thing" we need...Though surely this is all, in the end, just idiot Republicans executing another sure to fail election winning strategy.
