Run, Hillary, run: Majority want a Clinton 2016 candidacy

Behold just how cretinized the country has become.

Not hyperbole, not political polemic. Wow.

A public figure with no qualifications, no talent, no ideas, nothing than a last name shared with a disgraced – and failed – president, and who has been a notable disaster and embarrassment at SecState, even by recent standards. With, actually, the only serious

And she is viewed favorably.

It’s easy, even fun, for folks to go nuts on comment threads about how doomed we are, etc. But looking around us, and including this latest small bit of data – it seems we have, really, finally entered a whole new level of national dysfunction.

IceCold on December 5, 2012 at 6:26 PM

Well, Doughboy, I tend to think it’s already burning – and that the dramatic, kinetic event or series of events that some seem to hope will put some learnin’ to the clueless electorate is a vain hope. Both elements.

First, a “meltdown” seems less and less likely. In 1979, a few phone calls was enough to have an administration’s budget “rejected” by the bond markets. Back when there was some financial, fiscal, and economic sanity in much the of the populace and even among the “elites”. Today? Seems a long, slow, tortuous rot is much more likely – in fact it’s already started. So much of the populace effectively isolated from ecomomic reality (govt. job or transfer payments). Economic illiteracy and general lack of seriousness (youth vote, and parts of other demos). And behind it all, Fed intervention – from CA to Europe – the more markets become detached from underlying reality, the more insolvent state govts. can continue on with their insanity.

Second, the mouse in the maze (electorate) does not look like any electric shocks will produce a rational response. Election 2012 – ’nuff said. As if the “press” (broken information system) would provide info or framework to the “electorate” (broken, cretinized, astonishing ignorant, bigoted, and short-sighted) that would produce a change in course following any dramatic “burning”. It won’t.

All this takes place against a background of lawlessness (states ignoring their own constitutions to borrow money without voter approval, courts way off their rails and issuing capricious and absurd rulings unhitched from reality, language, or logic – see Justice Roberts and the four cretins on the SCOTUS, executive order abuse, virtual and unconstitutional suspension of whole sections of the law such as immigration).

Any of the “let it burn”ers here really think that this electorate, with this “press”, and this political elite, and this judicial system, and this level of illiteracy about almost all key elements of life and citizenship, would materially change its ways after another financial crisis? Really??

IceCold on December 5, 2012 at 6:51 PM

Exactly, Bishop. The least fit member of the Carter Admin. would be as a colossus, nearly a Churchillian figure, in today’s Democratic Party. And even that least fit figure would never dream of the behavior and temperament on display now – to silence, if not golf claps.

I never got over the shock of the lightweight congressional staff colleagues who vaulted to serious foreign policy jobs in the Clinton years. That seems almost quaint compared to the absurd people now elected or appointed. No longer a serious country.

IceCold on December 5, 2012 at 7:10 PM