And Yet Again

 

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926

 

Well, it’s happened again. The American people wemt into the breach, and somehow democracy survived.

 

We had an election.

 

No guns, no tanks rolling through the streets. The truly stupidest amongst us will explain what the election results portend for the future.

 

Any one who makes that claim out loud and in public needs to be closely observed by mental health professionals.

 

Just ask President Hillary Clinton or President Kamala Harris. After all, the Wizards of Smartt all said they were guarantees to win. Every year these insipid prognosticators crawl from the woodwork and are heralded as “experts” in electoral politics. They are more wrong than the carnival gypsy who reads your palm while they lift your wallet.

 

Actually an apt metaphor.

 

But this is not about the media who claim clairvoyance about people who have yet to even take office.

 

This is about a narrative nobody seems interested in discussing.

 

As we stated above: we did it again.

 

Peacefully, and almost as a matter of course.

 

In a world where, TODAY, someone will willingly lay down their life in the hope that one day their children may have the right to vote, in America, it was a Tuesday.

 

That needs to be celebrated..

 

So if your candidate got wiped out, please relax, shut off your media and revel in the fact they lost by a vote.

 

No guns, no tanks in the street.

 

By a vote.

 

And that is glorious.

 

 

 

 

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 The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926

The Madison Conservative strives to be as non-partisan as possible. We use the Constitution as our guide for calling constitutional balls and strikes. By using that metric, most issues become easy to discern.

In rare instances, everybody is wrong, and the Constitution stands alone.

And so it is with the government shutdown.

It seems easy to blame the Democrats and their insipid intransigence. They make grotesque accusations to defend their indefensible arguments. Their stance is stupid, plain and simple.

As my mom would say, a pox on their house.

That is the popular take, and while accurate as far as it goes, it is incomplete.

The key question is how we got here.

The Republlllicans.

Both parties play the continuing resolution (CR) game. It allows them to cram their pet projects into one giant omnibus funding bill that nobody ever reads.

The Republicans promised us if they gained power, they would be different. They promised a return to normal order, wherein they would debate funding bills in the appropriate committee and then have a floor vote. What adds to the frustration is that the budget is due on a date certain. It did not just appear. With the due date of September 30th fast approaching, what did the Republicans do. They took August off for vacation.

This in no way absolves the Democrats, but when tossing around pox, make sure it lands on ALL their houses.