It’s A Dogma Eat Dogma World

Check out almost any statehouse and legislature in this country – including Washington, DC. You will find an overabundance of single-issue extremists who, beyond the rigid orthodoxy of their beloved single issue, know almost nothing about governing intelligently. These orthodoxymorons have learned almost nothing about our collective history, or how we arrived at this crisis economically.

These people were elected using buzzwords and bitterness, so they never had to reveal their ignorance to their constituents. Now that they are in office, they can’t possibly deal with the complexities of budgets, earmarks, entitlements, administrations, agencies, bureaus, revenue-sharing, ad infinitum. The best they can do is pay close attention to (and vote with) those who have been there for some time, especially the very persuasive lobbyists from well-funded special interest groups. These leeches on the body politic almost never have the welfare of the nation in mind – only the welfare of the uncommonly wealthy who control the common wealth. Buying politicians is always more cost effective than paying taxes.

That must be why we are starting at the bottom of every problem. These mental midgets are viciously attacking the poorest, the oldest, the youngest, the sickest, the most helpless, and the hardest working. While billions could be realized just by reducing the budget for war and reining in our financial robber barons, these small-minded idiots introduce “right-to-leech” bills and bills to destroy collective bargaining and PBS and Planned Parenthood and on and on. How in the world are those non-economic, drop-in-the-bucket, mostly-social issues going to effect any change in the deficit or the balance of trade or a Wall Street/banking establishment run amok?

We’re seeing more tax breaks and special privileges for the few, and more apathy and malice toward the many. The gaping chasm between very rich and very poor has become frighteningly obscene, while the great pretenders play around with ever more insignificant issues that won’t make one bit of difference in the economy. Those of us downhill from this economic catastrophe-in-the-making are the unfortunate recipients of the toxic sludge from this sewer of ignorance.

The middle class is sledding ever more rapidly into oblivion and extinction, and the orthodoxymorons are greasing the skids.

Walt Bittle – March 2011