Recognize how destructively ridiculous — elected American leadership has become

© 2019 Peter Free

 

11 January 2019

 

 

Government shutdown — is the antithesis of intelligent governance

 

Obvious baseline essentials like:

 

 

the TSA,

 

air traffic control,

 

possibly the Coast Guard

 

and much of science —

 

 

are not being paid.

 

 

But the Fat Cats in Congress and the Presidency are.

 

 

Keeping government running . . .

 

. . . is national leadership's simplest and most basic job.

 

Yet, like quarrelsome two year olds, these quantifiably useless and privileged folk repeatedly fail to do it.

 

 

The moral? — The United States is over, except as a playground for parasites

 

I suppose there's some merit in that. From some perspectives.

 

Most of us do want to become blood-suckers. That's what unregulated capitalism is all about, isn't it?

 

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid. And hope that:

 

 

business class doesn't explode —

 

when an unpaid TSA perimeter misses a nasty device

 

or

 

a depleted ATC staff falls asleep on the job

 

or

 

the Coast Guard isn't there to fish y'all out of the crash water.

 

 

It is as if the United States' (admittedly impressive) supplies of vacuous irresponsibility and brawny stupidity flowed to the top at the same time.