People ask who is running this country.

People ask who is running this country.  I do not believe that there is any one single person or even a small group.  Never has been, at least in my lifetime.  The Founders set it up that way in an effort to make it responsive to the American people.  America was a reaction to King George.  The problem that we face today is not in Washington.  It is out here in the hustings, where, we refuse to discuss substantive problems intelligently with one another.  Because our political system is incapable of long term decision-making, the importance of the bureaucracy understandably increases and we are today ruled in very large part by unelected bureaucrats, which conservatives find unacceptable because they by-in-large reflect liberal values.

When the public elects one or another politician, that politician sees it as being critically important to govern by catering to their “base.”  You and I thus drive decision-making in Washington and it understandably reflects the divisions that we permit to exist in the body politic at large.  Compromise does not occur because America does not want it.  Were our two political sides not so evenly matched in numbers, the problem would be different.  Instead of flip-flopping every couple of years as the lack of compromise eviscerates the side in power, we would stumble down one or the other path as determined by shear numbers of voters, rather than any intelligent thought on the part of the public.

My appreciation of the situation is that the liberal side of the stupidity is prevailing and the nature of our demise, long term, will reflect liberal weaknesses, but please do not read this as being an endorsement of conservative “solutions.”  In my view, unadulterated conservatism is equally flawed.  Assuming no epiphany, I remain pessimistic about our ability to ward off a nuclear exchange with one or another foreign adversary because none of us out here in the hustings think beyond our body parts.