This country really is upside down, and it scares me. Not just because things are so bad, but that the people who have pushed all this nonsense on us have managed to stay in office throughout it all.
I mean, seriously. We have the worst economic performance of any administration in my lifetime, one of the worst, most incoherent foreign policies of the modern era, and the most blatant and obvious deception in generations (the Obamacare lies and the push for single payer). In any other era, we’d see mass resignations and a tidal wave at the ballot box. The former hasn’t happened and the latter remains to be seen.
Bad craziness, man. Bad craziness.
The reason there was no such tide in 2012 was because, politically speaking, Romney is Obama. In fact, I could see how a Romney presidency could have been worse than a second Obama term: the "issue waivers to the states"-plan for "repealing" obamacare, would give the office of the president a huge extortionate-power over the states (Do what I say, or I'll revoke your waiver.
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In short, people saw right through the Republican party's offering. I'm actually glad that they rejected the Tao of Republican Orthodoxy.