The Bosque Boys

22/10: The Next Big Thing

Category: Politics

As the election nears, I sense that we are in a real lull of activity. I am not sure if we are waiting for the next trump card or, perhaps, have all the aces and spades already been played? Are all the money cards now on the table? If so, the last couple of tricks may fall to mid-level hearts and clubs.

Or, switching metaphors, are the two parties like two heavyweight fighters who have punched themselves out in the late-middle rounds and, unable to knock the other out, who intend to stagger around for the remainder of the fight, leaning on one another until the final bell comes? Unfortunately, one of these bloated, undeserving contestants will win a decision.

I am increasingly convinced that there is a great pall descending over the American electorate. Faced with the final reality that the majority must go, and well aware that the minority is ill-equipped to govern, voters are fast becoming disheartened and pessimistic about their future.

What is the next big thing?

Comments

an okie gardener wrote:

I'll share some of the reasons for my lack of enthusiasm for the upcoming election: (1) voter fraud-the last several elections have featured significant voter fraud, usually urban and Democrat and I fear more of the same; (2) Litigation Day, the modern day-after-the-election day--I anticipate several court challenges around the nation to election results; (3) as I've said before, the Repubs haven't earned retention of majority status, and the Dems haven't earned election to majority status

23/10 11:01:24

A Waco Farmer wrote:

How the GOP lost this election (an incomplete list):

1. Iraq. Three-and-one-half years is as much time as you can expect the American people to advance you in a war. If the war was unwinable in that stretch of time, then it was a foolish undertaking. If the war was winable in that span of time, then it was foolishly prosecuted. Either way. The Republican administration is responsible.

2. Congressional Spending. Deficits are too big. If the GOP cannot hold the line on spending, then there is no hope. They should get more credit for a vibrant economy--but the deficits and the ear-marks and all the other pork makes their claims of fiscal responsibility incredible.

3. International Relations. We are stuck in Iraq and the world is going to hell in a handbasket--and there is nothing we can do about it. For us to prove that we are not a defenseless giant, we are going to have to nuke someone. I hope we don't.

4. Moral turpitude. Our guys are crooks.

23/10 16:29:14

Joab wrote:

A great pall over the electorate indeed. I've heard more people complain that "they're all rotten" than ever before. Their response? Either they will still vote their standard party line or they won't vote at all.

It frustrates me greatly that voters who are fed up with the two major parties fail to make any effort to seek out alternatives to vote for. No one should vote 3rd party just for the sake of doing so, but if they would bother to educate themselves on 3rd parties and their candidates they might just find something they like. A lot. Worked for me. I just cannot stay home on election day and grumble about how bad it is when so many fought and died for my right to vote and continue to live free in this nation. I may not cast a vote in every race, but I at least participate in the process.

23/10 22:22:03

Tocqueville wrote:

The great line of demarcation in modern politics, Eric Voegelin used to point out, is not a division between liberals on one side and totalitarians on the other. No, on one side of that line are all those men and women who fancy that the temporal order is the only order, and that material needs are their only needs, and that they may do as they like with the human patrimony. On the other side of that line are all those people who recognize an enduring moral order in the universe, a constant human nature, and high duties toward the order spiritual and the order temporal.

24/10 11:54:56