The Presidency does not matter. Special interest groups control Washington.
“The Presidency does not matter. Special interest groups control Washington.”
Well, we actually don’t matter. I think the term “Special Interest Group” gets bandied about too much. Really, I prefer the term “neo-aristocracy.” It is like the jolly old British Empire where you were born to your status and that was that. Except here, if you are lucky enough, you can also get elected to your status. The new aristocracy doesn’t suffer the Constitution (designed, at its very core, to prevent their rise in the first place) or little people like you and I who actually have the audacity to think our votes count for something or that we are allowed to object to the little “pass the taxpayer money to my personal bank account” game that goes on in DC.
Thus, we have a system in DC where two Parties really are not that bothered by which one is in charge, elections are more of a sporting even to them, really. Sure, ole Bitch, I mean Mitch, is sad when his party doesn’t control the Senate but it is more of a “just wait till next year” kind of sad that he experienced long ago when he lost at little league. So long as Bitch err, Mitch McConnell and Boner and Reid and Pelosi have their status as landed gentry, the rest of us can go and pound sand.