Posted on 09/24/2015 10:59:40 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the entire government working for you,” Will Rogers quipped, capturing his era’s zeitgeist and explaining the popularity of our moment’s outsider presidential candidates.
It’s good to be a non-politician when 75 percent of Americans say government corruption is widespread, up from 66 percent in 2009, and half say government is an immediate threat to lives and freedoms, according to Gallup.
It’s bad to be the debate-shy “candidate of destiny,” Hillary Clinton, when the first three words voters associate with her are “liar,” “dishonest” and “untrustworthy,” according to a Quinnipiac poll.
Even early GOP front-runner and heroic “outsider” Scott Walker succumbed to skepticism, exiting the race after getting trumped by voters who won’t Think Again about his policy reversals.
With median incomes down 6.5 percent since 2007, U.S. debt surging to perilous heights and the world melting down, voters resist limiting their choice to donor favorites — Clinton 2.0 or Bush 3.0.
If there’s a Rosetta Stone deciphering Americans’ malaise, it’s the unprecedented and often extra-constitutional way lawmakers make consequential decisions in defiance of public opinion.
Fans of self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders and conservative Ted Cruz meet at the intersection of their contempt for a government that gives sweetheart deals to well-connected cronies.
(Excerpt) Read more at aspentimes.com ...
On a similar note: What's the difference between a duck?
Because it’s faster to New York than by bus.
hillary in three words:
murderer
traitor
slut
Good article that covers a lot of ground. Thanks for sharing.
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