What’s your level of political fatigue?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Cataclysmic.
dude, I am so fucking tired right now, that I would gladly pay off Fat Tony to pour the entire congress and senate a new pair of cement galoshes and send them on a long walk off a short pier. Preferably into a body of water swarming with pirhanas and barracuda.
I’ll contribute to that. 🙂
Too exhausted to answer that question.
I’m fried. Even though the general course of political chicanery, deception, hypocrisy and capitulation and cowardice is predictable in virtually every instance, I can’t be bothered to pay attention to the details anymore. I assume the Repubs will continue to attack and ignore the facts and support the Imbecile in Chief, and I assume the Dems, (the ones with any clout anyway), will keep on caving in, keep on failing to stand up for anything important.
Last night Rahm Emanuel was on the TV and mistakenly I had the sound on. He was blah blah blahing, totally irrelevant, totally self-absorbed, totally bullshit; epitomizing the very worst of our current political climate. I realized what a total waste of time it is to even listen to these craven hacks. I know they’re going to betray me and everyone else no matter what they say. I wouldn’t vote for any of these prominent figures in either party for any reason ever.
Maybe by 2016 there might be a chance to restore enough actual working democratic functions in our government to be able to repair some of the big damage. But we need a really big purge of shitbirds between now and then, both in politics and in the media.
I have to fight off the same feelings.
The fatigue is pretty high right now. But it is more with the naiveté I see around me than the actual politics. Not much in politics EVER happens instantly, yet everywhere I look I see ‘I want it NOW’.
Another one is ‘Let’s get REAL democrats in!’. That one I always find amusing. When Emmanual was elected he probably WAS a ‘real’ democrat. The system corrupted him. Just like it will corrupt, given enough time, the ones elected last Nov. In a way, this is why things do not happen instantly, the new guys do not have influence, yet when they do get influence, they have changed their minds.
There are no political saviours.
If I was ambitous and articulate I would write a diary on that.
Anyway, it is fatiguing listening to it all.
nalbar
The new people have already been co-opted. It’s too late. ‘Our’ people will maybe be good on a signature issue or two, but they’re owned by the corporate lobbyists now as surely as the rest and as soon as you’re not watching, or perhaps even if you are, they’ll turn against the public interest.
In answer to the original question, my level of political fatigue is verging on complete blood sugar collapse.
There’s no relief force. There’s no second shift. There’s virtually no inside with which an inside-outside strategy could be enacted in partnership. Our political system is a relentless horror and a mockery of democratic values.
And I guess I’ll wake up tomorrow and have another go.
I’m with you completely Natasha. Between a self-serving major media whose failure to serve the public interest makes them just as culpable as the politicos they’re supposed to be reporting on for the ongoing disaster that is our current government, and those pols themselves who are so intoxicated by their own selves that they long ago lost touch with those principles they so hypocritically claim to revere, we are well and truly fucked for a long time to come. Democracy is so broken in so many places here in the US now the nation may never recover.