The Bipartisan Time Bombs
Introduction: the bipartisan world of mystery
The bipartisan world is filled with mystery and surprise. The Bush Administration is surprised with the inevitable results of its military misadventure in Iraq: first, the insurgency, then, civil war.
Before these disasters became evident to America’s bipartisan political establishment, the Administration declared “Mission accomplished!” At the time, Democrats, also believing that the mission was accomplished, grumbled that the video of the President’s victory ceremony onboard the SS Abraham Lincoln would appear in campaign ads. It did, of course – in Democratic ads. Democratic and Republican politicians alike were surprised by Iraq’s time bombs of insurgency and civil war. They live in a bipartisan world of mystery.
Several other ticking time bombs lurk in the political background, escaping the attention of America's bipartisan press and politicians, especially in the context of election campaigns.
The extraordinary features of bipartisan time bombs
· Grave. All are very serious. Some are mortally threatening us.
· Unsustainable. All demand a blank check, like a Ponzi scheme. You can never, for example, get a politician, who backs continued government control of our failing K-12, to reveal exactly how much more money the government needs to produce world-class results.
· Power to the State. All rest on the rationale that the blame lies with the people, not the government, claiming that the people cannot and should not be trusted with full ownership of their own lives. Thus, this bipartisan policy increases the power of the (bipartisan) government, at the expense of the power of the people. The Dems and GOP agree: that the government should control your life; they disagree, frequently disagreeably, only about who should control the government.
· Irrational. All are psychologically sustained in hysteria and ignorance.
· Un-American. All are logically grounded in values hostile to America’s founding creed, “The Declaration of Independence”.
· Invisible. All are ignored by Democratic-Republican politicians and their faithful, loyal toadies in the press – especially, in the context of election campaigns.
Blasts from the past
Time bombs
Blundering into World War III?
The 'war on drugs' gets more insane
Sustaining the shameful legacy of slavery