December 26, 2022

Back when I was a young-un growing up in Limeyland in the 1950s, there was a Thing called “a blithering idiot.” You readers, having been socialized to “lived experience” America, may shy away from such direct talk, such violation of the eternal culture of “safe spaces,” especially if you have internalized the CIO Council culture at Stanford.

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But, in our present pass in the good old USA, nearly two years since the start of what experts agree is the Biden “bomb cyclone” administration, I think that the only way to make sense of today’s America is to say that we are governed by “blithering idiots.”

When we say “blithering idiots” we are saying that the problem is not so much the malevolence our rulers demonstrate as just ordinary human stupidity, of the type immortalized by the Keystone Kops.

I think that the present annual event of an annual one-size-fits-all omnibus spending package is not a sign of evil intent on the Pelosi and Schumer front, but a sign that we are governed by blithering idiots.

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Because, you see, if the Pelosis and Schumers were really in control of things, they wouldn’t need to fund the government by gussying up an annual government-shutdown emergency, and finalizing all their dirty deals with special interests high and low in the dark of 4,000 pages. Every year. Their spending plans would be gloriously broadcast in the light of day.

If our liberal friends were really confidently in charge, they wouldn’t need to be oppressing us with their cancel culture. You don’t need cancel culture when you already own the future. Cancel culture, like Reigns of Terror and Great Purges, is a backhand admission of failure.

If our Democratic friends really felt that they owned the future they wouldn’t need to bother about chasing Trump around and stigmatizing his followers as “armed insurrectionists,” and going to enormous effort to prosecute January 6 rioters. They would just know that they would win at the next election.

If our Bidenoid friends were really in the saddle they would not be passing fake-arama Inflation Reduction Acts, no fact-checkers need apply.

If university liberals were really confident and secure they would not need to exclude racist-sexist-homophobe conservatives from faculty appointments, because since their ideas were better, they would be bound to win the future, no matter how many bigoted conservatives were trying to pollute innocent student minds.

If political liberalism were the answer to life, the universe, everything, it wouldn’t be necessary to have the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency run web pages detailing misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation and their relation to foreign and domestic “threat actors.”