Twiapos

Black Lives Matter.

Of course they do. All lives matter. No group should be singled out and considered immaterial or irrelevant. But isn’t it somehow ironic that in order to make the point that Black Lives Matter we have to kill each other?

This is really a shitty world. Our leaders don’t lead, our legislators don’t legislate, our administrators don’t administrate. Most of our senators and congresspeople care infinitely more about being re-elected to the best job they could ever hope to have than they care about the people, the institutions, and the country they are supposed to serve.

The Corona Virus snafu is a perfect prototypical example, politicized from day one, even to the point of distributing the vaccine, which is being done so incompetently it’s pathetic. But not shocking. Not even surprising. Even with almost a year to come up with a plan, they came up with none.

But their attitude toward the national budget should have made us ready for that: with a solid year to come up with a budget, a task that they must undertake every year, they never accomplish it on time. Every year it’s “Oh, my God, we have to shut down the government because the damn Democrats/Republicans (whichever, depending on the year) are screwing it up!”

Unfortunately, though, as someone said long ago, “Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the rest.” Of course that’s inaccurate, because this is a Republic and not a Democracy, a distinction which becomes more and more apparent as the people’s representatives continue to screw up the country more and more every year.

I’m an American. Always have been. I’m neither Democrat nor Republican. I love my country. I just want it better taken care of, that’s all.