Back when I was a young-un growing up in Limeyland in the 1950s, there was a Thing called "a blithering idiot." You readers, having been socialized to "lived experience" America, may shy away from such direct talk, such violation of the eternal culture of "safe spaces," especially if you have internalized the CIO Council culture at Stanford.
But, in our present pass in the good old USA, nearly two years since the start of what experts agree is the Biden "bomb cyclone" administration, I think that the only way to make sense of today's America is to say that we are governed by "blithering idiots."
When we say "blithering idiots" we are saying that the problem is not so much the malevolence our rulers demonstrate as just ordinary human stupidity, of the type immortalized by the Keystone Kops.
I think that the present annual event of an annual one-size-fits-all omnibus spending package is not a sign of evil intent on the Pelosi and Schumer front, but a sign that we are governed by blithering idiots.
Because, you see, if the Pelosis and Schumers were really in control of things, they wouldn't need to fund the government by gussying up an annual government-shutdown emergency, and finalizing all their dirty deals with special interests high and low in the dark of 4,000 pages. Every year. Their spending plans would be gloriously broadcast in the light of day.
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That be an understatement. I too grew up hearing that from my little 5'-0" 99 pount mother. A stick of dynomite she was, and could curl the toenails of any grown man. She most always come out with that phrase when politics come into the conversation. Her and all her family linage back in the Deep South of Arkansas were all Democrats, and as whe got older she "along with a lot of common sense" begin to see the error of the Democratic Party ways, and she switched on a dime too. I remember it well around our dinner table. So yeah............most of them of not all are..."blithering idiots."