Our elected representatives spend little to no time addressing, much less solving, the actual day-to-day problems of the American people. Instead, they address made-up fake problems that don’t exist at all.
America: Solving Non-Existent Problems, One Ignored Crisis at a Time
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Then there are instances when a problem appears to be addressed … but, predictably futilely, by “using the very same reasoning that got us into the f*cking mess in the first place.” (To loosely quote Einstein’s admonition.)
The prime example is the passage of climate crisis legislation “based on market measures.” That is, there can be absolutely NO effective resolution of a problem, that clearly requires reduction of consumption, if the “solution” is based on the system whose very existence is DEFINED by ever-increasing consumption.
This is a feature, not a bug. The democrats did it with abortion for decades. Why? Once you “solve” abortion, you have to move on to the NEXT problem. Abortion? It’s a dream issue. Why? It’s a 50-50 issue. Despite how strongly some people feel (either way), neither represents a strong majority on the issue. About half are against, about half aren’t.
The other issue they play grab-ass with us on is gun control. It is now pretty much impossible to have a rational discussion about gun control. And don’t the Direct Mailing teams love it? “We can keep this going forever.”
Of course, just like all the Academy speeches, there’s the many people that have to be thanked: the managers, the agents, the gullible stupid public with almost zero education about politics or critical thinking, the lawmakers who ensured this would be the case by gutting public education and knuckling under to the religious fanatics for decades, um, my agent, um, (music plays) … Thank you!