When we treat them the way we do, who in their right mind would want run for office for the chance to be a public servant? And that explains why we have the jokers in office that we do. Turns out, elections actually do have consequences.
We not only have the worst political class in the history of the Republic, we have the worst voter class in the history of the Republic. The vast majority of the electorate autopilots their Election Day decisions based on emotions anymore,* not on any actual carefully-considered reasoning informing their vote for a particular candidate. That’s why populists like Trump, who have no ideological background to get a grip on, become front-runners. Well, sure. They’re called “populists” for a reason. And they have NEVER been good for this country.
When urged to run for president, recently, General James Mattis had the right idea, which boiled down to, “Screw ’em, I can’t fix stupid.”** In making his decision, he was undoubtedly aware of the following quotes from the Assorted Gospels of St. P. J. O’Rourke:
“Every person in America has done or said something that would keep him or her from being president. Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ‘character issues.'”
“… in our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.” (Written before the Clinton impeachment, which would make it “impeached two”.)
Ah well. I wouldn’t have said it even as little as six months ago, but we’re not going to vote our way out of this. The progressives — who ALWAYS shit their nest — have just about managed to destroy everything we used to stand for. President Trump or President Hillary will see to finishing it off.
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* Explaining the Trump and Bernie phenomena, but not the Hillary phenomenon, unless maybe it does.
** For the benefit of idiot morons, he did not actually say that. I’m simply translating what he actually said.