GOP Needs New Flaks?

One of my favorite political commentators, Dan Henninger, recently published this in the Wall Street Journal.

Where Is the GOP's Jay Carney

...and it made me sadder than Hell.


Sure, that's what this nation needs; better PR flaks pushing the GOP message in our current steel cage death match struggle for supremacy in an American totalitarian theocracy.

A pox on both their houses, the facts since JFK's America speak for themselves. Who grew government more than Nixon, Reagan and Bush?

What we need is an America electorate that once again selects state plumbers, hands them a plunger, and asks that they honorably maintain the plumbing of state for a few years, if they are willing and able, while the rest of us live our lives, and which hopefully, they will sometime return to after keeping the plumbing of state clean and free flowing.

We need to pay attention when they mistake that plunger for a scepter.

We need to once again focus on the most important aspect of public governance; what is and what isn't a proper topic for public governance? What justifies forced association on a local level? On a county level? On a state level? And highest hurdle of all, on a national level?.

When we have once again properly sized government, it won't matter who our leaders are. We can pick the pool of candidates from the phone book or voter registration roles, like we do jurists(who we trust to make life and death decisions over their peers.) We could qualify them the same way we qualify jurors, and we could vet them the same way we vet the current crop of candidates for office, without the initial bias of seeking power over others for personal agendas.

Because the America that once was elected plumbers, not emperors.

Why is the current debate on anything a national debate? Why isn't gun control a local matter of community standards? Why isn't health care a local matter of community standards? Why is it necessary to turn every issue of modern life into a singular Totalitarian solution, decided for the entire nation? This endless forced association is exactly what is dividing the nation against itself, not unifying it.

The American phrase is "United We Stand." Not "United It Stands." We, as in a plurality. One nation. Of societies, plural, freely formed under rules of free association. Not one "S"ociety, but many societies forming one nation.

Our national government should be -primarily- concerned with matters of the nation, not local or internal matters of a diverse nation of free people forming societies, plural, under rules of free association.

Totalitarianism is not an American principle. It is one that we used to come together for, as a nation, to fight tooth and nail, because we recognized it as the eater of freedom.

Or, we can get louder GOP hacks.

An American Totalitarian Theocracy?  Really?

Really.

Read Scott Nearings "Social Religion." From long before you and I were born.

You and I have been inculcated to believe in the absolute reality of a singular myth called "S"ociety. (See also Durkheim, "Religious Formes" -- especially his summary, where he defines "S"ociety. "S"ociety=God, and the state is its proper church.)

A corollary: the total myth of "The Economy." There is no singular 'The' Economy. There are only economies, plural; the macro concept "all of them in aggregate" has no basis in reality, only as statistical anecdotes, not as a factual entity...It is as silly as the aggregate term "weather" applied to the nation as a whole. What is 'the' temperature in the USA today? We could average all the surface temperatures...and then decide, for the nation as a whole, if "it" should be warmer or cooler...resulting in a steel cage death match struggle for survival between the people of Florida and Alaska.

So...what should 'the' Minimum Wage be? In rural Lancaster county...and downtown Manhattan? Let's drive the nation insane by coming up with 'the' right answer. Sort of like basing our stream crossing policy on the average depth of the national stream.

And in the American Totalitarian Theocracy, 99% of Americans alive today can't have a political discussion without paying homage to the religious terms of art "S"ociety and/or 'The' Economy.

You and I have had the absolute reality of those myths blasted into our consciousness since birth, to the point where we can't even imagine the reality of anything but.

There is a political reason for this; in order for power grubbing politicos to convince you and I that they have the first clue about centrally planning and controlling "the Economy", they have to first convince us and themselves that they are an it.

Look at the current tribal over-reaction to rare, fringe mayhem.

There is no commensurate national debate on the real epidemic creating dead five year olds -- DUI. No national commissions calling for national 20MPH limited autos and 3.2 beer.

We don't care about dead five yr olds senselessly murdered in DUI crashes? Trivial to implement-- replace the Silicon MCUs in most modern cars, limit them to 20MPH. Like 'valet key' mode.   (Do I actually believe this should be done, just because it could be done?  Hell no, even though it might save even just one -- no, sorry, make that 30,000 lives a year.   And neither do you.)

Any one of us can easily prove to ourselves that the real national epidemic is not rare, fringe 20 yr old kids, "devastated" by the divorce of their parents, wigging out and carting Mom's weapons into Kindergartens. It's patently not the case, and easily provable: nearly every community in the nation has blanket, pre-emptive DUI stops set up on local roads. No such pre-emptive blanket stops looking for wigged out kids carting arsenals to school, precisely because it is exceedingly rare and fringe and it would be highly ineffective to search for, in a blanket pre-emptive fashion, that which is so fringe and rare.

Not so DUI.

But the response to DUI is local and targeted, not national, with nationwide calls for 20MPH limited autos and 3.2 beer.

You see, some cute dead five yr olds not going to the Prom are more politically abusable than others.

They could care less that we murder each other on the highways. So, from where politicians fear of armed citizens? Look at NY. 600+ firearm related deaths, and only 5 related to rifles of any kind, much less, semi-automatic assault rifles. So why are NY politicos, especially Bloomberg, targeting assault rifles so quickly in NY?

From his Bio:

"In March 2012, Forbes reported Bloomberg’s wealth at $22 billion, ranking him 20th in the world and 11th in the United States.[29] In March 2009, Forbes reported Bloomberg's wealth at $16 billion, a gain of $4.5 billion over the previous year, enjoying the world's biggest increase in wealth in 2009.[30] At that time, there were only four fortunes in the U.S. that were larger (although the Wal-Mart family fortune is split among four people). He moved from 142nd to 17th in the Forbes list of the world's billionaires in only two years (March 2007 – March 2009).[31][32]"

Mr. Mayor, while Mr. Mayor, picks up 6 billion with a b in assets ... during America's "financial crisis."

... is nervous about New Yorkers with assault rifles for some reason.

The reason is, when he is asked to provide the details of how this magic could have happened during his servant's heart service to the people of NY, he has an easier time smirking and saying 'Take it and shut up' in a world where the dupes are disarmed.

For that matter, nothing new; how did LBJ leave office a rich man after an entire lifetime of 'public service?'

America used to laugh about those things, took it in stride. But that was before we started to act out our own version of The Hunger Games, with The Capitol only booming.

Soon enough at this rate with real hunger in The Districts.