re: #77 GeneJockey

Here’s more irony - the Tea Party insists on American Exceptionalism as if it were 1) wisdom handed down by God, and 2) unquestionable in perpetuity.

But by their very actions, they may well make us completely unexceptional.

I really do think we are seeing the beginning of the end of our current form of government.

Government literally has to be able to pay it’s own bills and keep the lights on. Right now, we are set so that a minority can literally derail even the most basic functions of running a nation state, and that minority show every sign of continuing to do so for the foreseeable future. We have literally become ungovernable under the rules and laws we set forth, and that was predicted by a Spanish political scientist back in the 90s who said that there is no device by which a president and a legislature can both claim legitimacy from the electorate without eventually destroying the government.

He died last year before this came to pass…