Friday, January 22, 2021

Survived

 NY Times: Democracy ‘Prevailed’? Survived Is More Like It. The crisis Trump set in motion is far from over. By Jamelle Bouie

And Congress, designed to check and challenge a lawless president, struggled to do its job on account of partisanship and party loyalty.

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8 comments:

Mark said...

Survived? Yeah, barely. Good ol' poet laureate Springsteen said in '75:

"They wind up wounded, not even dead"

Cause I'm thinking that as helpful as executive order reversals are, they are band aids that don't address the inherent disease. Maybe it's better to die and rise from the ashes.

"As the author of this article says"...We were saved, in short, by the point spread. This does not reflect well on American democracy..."

8:35 AM
Jim Sande said...

At least for the moment, saner heads are in charge. Not so sane heads are biting at their heals though.

11:08 AM
Mark said...

The inherent disease, if you'd indulge my analogy, is that we a COKE or Pepsi party system. And as long as we prefer to fight to the death to defend our "choice" of sugared, colored, carbonated water instead of seeking healthier alternatives, then we'll stay diseased.

1:34 PM
Mark said...

But to your point, we are in saner hands. And even the appearance of a more humane America is important.

1:35 PM
Jim Sande said...

There was a period when I entertained people's ideas from the Green Party and such and I examined them for a while actually. Long story short - it will never happen in our lifetime. Change in the American political system is designed to be slow. There's really no room for a third party on the national level. We both noticed how absent from the conversation the Green Party and such were this cycle, no Jill Stein mucking it all up. There's ideology and then there's our relative reality. Our relative reality is two parties, both with massive donors, tons of dough, and complete control of the country. If you want to make changes you have to get involved, literally in it somehow. My tiny tiny miniscule part is this blog and the occasional comments I make on the NY Times website that get viewed by a few thousand people. I figure I account for a good .0000001% of the political weight in this country.

3:50 PM
Mark said...

Jim,
I really appreciate your blog, and if it's just us talking, that's ok. But I like to think your time, e
ffort and passion have a butterfly effect.

I also believe we were born in a great boom era but are living to see the end of the American Dream --- and as this Canadian says:"No empire long endures...Every kingdom is born to die"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/

Mark

9:23 AM
Jim Sande said...

Actually there are way way more people that at least visit this blog than comment. You might be surprised. I''m not sure how to get people to comment and dialogue. There are a few hoops to commenting here and I'm very unwilling to get into it with right wing types who just want to be insulting or threatening. In the past I've deleted comments like that. I'm just not willing to be let this become a repository for wackiness and advertisements. They might get through for a while but eventually they get deleted.

9:54 AM
Mark said...

I'm not surprised you have many visitors. It's a thoughtful and unique blog, representative of who you are. If it was a repository for wackiness, I'd go elsewhere so I'm glad you keep it this way.

See you on the other side of the American Dream.

10:43 AM

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