ELECTION POST-MORTEM, PART III One final thought about gloating and mandates... If anything, the steady run of 50-50 electoral contests weve seen for 20 years may be a different kind of mandate in its own right. At the very least, two decades of repeated behavior sure indicates one helluva pattern. So perhaps the voice of the people we should be paying more attention to is the one telling us that while Ds and Rs share MANY similarities with one another, and are generally friendly in our routine day-to-day dealings, weve come to a tipping point in specific political philosophies where Liberals and Conservatives simply cannot co-exist under one single solitary civil government. I dont throw this out there as snark, or an insult, or some kind of challenge. Simply as an objective observation which we should PERHAPS begin to consider in an intelligent, dispassionate, rational manner. While we still can. There are no signs whatsoever that either side in our on-going national debate is EVER going to sway the other side to its way of thinking. And this intolerable inability of our government to do ANYTHING is due to the never-ending process of one Party spending all its time and energy undoing what the Party before it did, and vice versa. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Now, Im not endorsing the wild-eyed secessionists who want to dismantle the Union state by state. Im just saying I get how they feel. I currently have NO representation in Congress - and thats not the inherent promise of democracy, is it? And lets face it. With each passing year, the level of molten anger among our divided citizenry grows hotter and hotter. Both Liberals and Conservatives have come to a fork in the road, a point at which each camp feels equally that its very way of LIFE is under attack. That leads to desperation. To words spoken in anger. To knee-jerk reactions. To baseless demonization. To violent rhetoric. And then to violence itself. Because each political coalition feels equally patriotic to its particular cause - and thats a powder keg just waiting for the right match. One which our current crop of professional politicians and media pundits arent trying to defuse - theyre actually fanning the flame! All of which could be eliminated by two separate governments, each of which fully reflects the views of its particular citizenry. Yeah, I know. Sounds crazy, right? Sure, the logistics would be messy and inconvenient at first, but were still at a point in this contest of wills where it could happen agreeably and relatively peacefully. And we could still be the best TAG-TEAM superpower in the world, if everyone keeps a cool head about the transition. I genuinely like my Conservative friends. I just cant abide living under the same government rules and regulations (or lack thereof) they want to establish - nor they under mine. Neither of us should have to. No harm, no foul. Just the way it is. Well still have Facebook, and vacations, and Class Reunions. There just may be a few more forms of ID involved... :)
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:33:44 +0000
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