Taps, Please!

Over the past few years we have written numerous times about just how bankrupt these two political parties are. It's The Big Heist. They both have taken voters for granted for years. It makes for a fairly decent parlor game, however.

But just about the time we're about to extend the winning award to the Republicans, we get reminded of all the thugs and slugs crawling around the Democrat party. One's the party of privilege, the other of victimhood. Added together they spell warmed-up leftovers. Boring, snoring losers all. If the masses who think they're pissed now over losing this election, if and when they ever wake up they'll be really pissed off about who really played them for fools.

Forget Dolly. It's going to be hello Democrats. Those stodgy old smug Republicans were never that smart, that sinister or that sensitive. When you're drowning in self-love and admiration your eye sight goes to shit. That fecal-strewn path takes in the editorial boards of the Wall Street Journal and the National Review Neocons. The other brown-stained brick road ends at the doorstep of MSM. Only two groups have lower reputations today than MSM--child molesters and child molesters.

As currently constructed and run these two parties are dead. Someone just needs to play Taps.
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For all practical purposes, both traditional parties have blown themselves up. The Democratic Party morphed from the party of thinking people to the party of the thought police, and for that alone they deserve to be flushed down the soil pipe of history where the feckless Whigs went before them. The Republicans have floundered in their own Special Olympics of the Mind for decades, too, so it’s understandable that they have fallen hostage to such a rank outsider as Trump, so cavalier with the party’s dumb-ass shibboleths. It remains to be seen whether the party becomes a vengeful, hybrid monster with an orange head, or a bridge back to reality. I give the latter outcome a low percentage chance.

Mommy is all about feelings and Daddy’s role is action and that is another reason that Hillary lost and Trump won. We’ve heard enough about people’s feelings and it just doesn’t matter anymore. You’re offended? Suck an egg. Someone appropriated your culture? Go shit in your sombrero. What matters is how we’re going to contend with the winding down of Modernity — the techno-industrial orgy that is losing its resource and money mojo. The politics of sacred victimhood has got to yield to the politics of staying alive.

President-elect Trump may not know it yet, but events are now in charge, not personalities, not even his super-sized persona.Global trade and economic activity have been winding down all year and it’s finally affecting financial markets kept aloft on borrowed money, sending a strong signal through bonds that the borrowed money may never be paid down, and that additional borrowing will cost a whole lot more — so much more that it will bankrupt the nations that issue it.

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