Sunday, October 20, 2013
Normal Politicians Party
Mentioning Nethercutt in connection with Foley's death led to a thought.
Nethercutt is a good example of a Normal American Politician. Extrovert with great social skills, likes to manipulate and maneuver, likes to have power derived from pleasing real people. This type probably doesn't fit any traditional category of 'ideal human' or 'saint', but it's a type that has served pretty well in Parliamentary systems over many centuries.
The DC government has grown so destructive and suicidal in the last 30 years that many Normal American Politicians can't stand it. They move up through levels of power in the states, decide to move into Congress, and then quit in disgust after a couple terms.
Some politicians thrive in DC. These politicians are comfortable with suicidal insanity by definition.
By now we have a pretty good collection of Normal Politicians Who Can't Stand DC.
Maybe this collection should form a party and run together against the wackos who love suicidal insanity. They would recruit enough decent state politicians to fill out a complete national ticket for one election: 435 Lower Nuthouse and 33 Upper Nuthouse candidates. They would offer: "Elect all of us at once. We'll bring back regular functional politics, with all its ordinary corruption and silliness. We'll take bribes from companies in our own districts, but we won't take bribes from any foreigner or financier."
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