{"id":1698,"date":"2012-11-05T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2012-11-05T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:03:29","slug":"no-future-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"No Future 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re looking for some changes to the way things run in this country, forget that too. The Senate Republicans have shattered the record for filibusters in a single session these last two years, and that\u2019s with a President who could still veto things if they somehow got out of Congress. With a Democrat-controlled Congress (and probably by a larger margin in both houses) and a Democratic President, they\u2019re going to dig in their heels. Scorched Earth, just like 1992-94. Every initiative will be tied up forever in the Senate, while the usual talk-radio scum bellow on about how the GOP is saving America from the depredations of the horrible socialist terrorist-worshipping Democrats\u2026and the political media will bemoan the fact that Obama has failed to change the tone in Washington and cannot get his program through Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n

– me, September 7, 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0There you have it. No less a paper than the Des Moines Register<\/em>, which had endorsed Democrats every presidential election from 1976 on, has succumbed to Stockholm Syndrome and endorsed Mitt Romney because he’s more likely to be able to get a program through Congress. \u00a0Because presumably Democrats won’t go the full Braveheart\/300, and Republicans definitely will.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s fucking nuts. \u00a0You have a candidate who has held every position imaginable – one whose manager, in fact, explicitly<\/em> said that clinching the nomination was like an Etch-a-Sketch, shake it up and start over. \u00a0You have a candidate who has made assertions about an “apology tour” and about car companies shipping jobs to China and about the President relaxing welfare rules – assertions that have been repeatedly proven false<\/em> – and his response is to push those false assertions even harder.<\/em> \u00a0You have, in short, the first ever openly and unashamedly post-truth campaign for the White House. \u00a0And at this point, there are people willing to throw their hands in the air and give in, just to make it stop.<\/p>\n

This<\/em> is what “no future” means. \u00a0This is unsustainable. When people are endorsing a candidate on the basis that everything he’s said for the last year and a half is false<\/em>, and what he said before that<\/em> is true, and obviously<\/em> he’ll go back to the way he was, and the people who pushed him to the right will go along with this <\/em>– that is insane.<\/em> \u00a0If logic doesn’t matter, if reason doesn’t matter, if the words coming out of the candidate’s mouth don’t matter, then there’s no point in even attempting to have a democracy or anything like it. \u00a0If truth means nothing, if reality<\/em> means nothing\u2026well, welcome to everything people bemoaned back when I was in college English. Welcome\u00a0to the truly and completely postmodern world. If we as a nation actually decide that the truth is whatever you want it to be\u2026well, maybe there’s enough medication and booze to help me see the world that way.<\/p>\n

I guess we’ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re looking for some changes to the way things run in this country, forget that too. The Senate Republicans have shattered the record for filibusters in a single session these last two years, and that\u2019s with a President who could still veto things if they somehow got out of Congress. With a Democrat-controlled Congress … <\/p>\n

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