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Lyrics from Simon & Garfunkel's MRS ROBINSON
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates' debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
[FONT=Roboto, arial, Noto Sans Japanese, sans-serif]Every way you look at this you lose[/FONT]
[FONT=Roboto, arial, Noto Sans Japanese, sans-serif]I am convinced that next Tuesday, America will lose no matter if Clinton or Trump emerges [/FONT][FONT=Roboto, arial, Noto Sans Japanese, sans-serif]victorious. And it is but a symptom of a disease that has infected our democracy ...(and please spare me the argument about if we have a democracy or a republic).
If Clinton wins, she is badly damaged goods. The republicans will investigate her yet again and the House - no matter if the Dems take the Senate or not - will only double down on the gridlock they dealt out to Obama. She has precious little chance of getting anything done with them.
If Trump wins, the least qualified man in a good century becomes the leader of the free world and there is little doubt his demons will spell only disaster for the nation as even his republican allies will desert him in short order when he has no strong hand to rein his negative inclinations in. And make no mistake about it - his negative inclinations are legion and will control him.
The Supreme Court vacancy will go unfilled and the battle over it will be a national embarrassment bordering on disgrace fully illustrating the failure of our system and the extent to which hyper partisanship has damaged the body politic.
The major problems of the nation will go untended to and we will only get worse.
I used to teach from an American history text that labeled the chapter on the 1850's as The Failure of the Politicians. And we know what followed.
It appears theat history does indeed repeat itself if only in a different disguise and costume which appears new and different only to the uninformed.
Woe is us. [/FONT]
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates' debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
[FONT=Roboto, arial, Noto Sans Japanese, sans-serif]Every way you look at this you lose[/FONT]
[FONT=Roboto, arial, Noto Sans Japanese, sans-serif]I am convinced that next Tuesday, America will lose no matter if Clinton or Trump emerges [/FONT][FONT=Roboto, arial, Noto Sans Japanese, sans-serif]victorious. And it is but a symptom of a disease that has infected our democracy ...(and please spare me the argument about if we have a democracy or a republic).
If Clinton wins, she is badly damaged goods. The republicans will investigate her yet again and the House - no matter if the Dems take the Senate or not - will only double down on the gridlock they dealt out to Obama. She has precious little chance of getting anything done with them.
If Trump wins, the least qualified man in a good century becomes the leader of the free world and there is little doubt his demons will spell only disaster for the nation as even his republican allies will desert him in short order when he has no strong hand to rein his negative inclinations in. And make no mistake about it - his negative inclinations are legion and will control him.
The Supreme Court vacancy will go unfilled and the battle over it will be a national embarrassment bordering on disgrace fully illustrating the failure of our system and the extent to which hyper partisanship has damaged the body politic.
The major problems of the nation will go untended to and we will only get worse.
I used to teach from an American history text that labeled the chapter on the 1850's as The Failure of the Politicians. And we know what followed.
It appears theat history does indeed repeat itself if only in a different disguise and costume which appears new and different only to the uninformed.
Woe is us. [/FONT]