Tribal politics

 

Looking at the performance of this president, it is hard to understand what keeps him afloat politically. There has to be only one explanation for that, and that is the tribal component of politics.

What has this president done so well that it rates a positive approval? The Rasmussen Poll have him consistently in the high 30's to low 40's. But if it is for approval, then what exactly do they like about the guy? What exactly has he done that meets with any approval at all?

There are some other polls that indicate that it isn't a partisan phenomenon. Dissatisfation has been high for some time now. The right-track wrong-track poll has been underwater for so long that it is the new normal. Is the fact that so many people are dissatified with the way things are going, is THAT the reason for their approval of this president?

If you cannot get political accountability, then how are you ever going to get some useful things done?

There has been plenty of talk about the "gridlock" in Washington. The gridlock, as such, is not the issue. The issue is why do people insist on giving these politicians a blank check all the time?

It has to be fear of the "other". They managed to convince many in their group that to allow the other side to win is tantamount to "losing our democracy". But it is the ability to "throw the bums out" that makes a democracy. If the guy you voted for doesn't produce, then what is the use of continuing the support? How are you ever going to get rid of a guy who is bad for the country, and even bad for YOU?

The politicians have made an art of avoiding accountability. Nice job if you can get it. No matter how badly you screw up, nobody will fire you for it. That is the state of the Democrat party. I'd like to see what this guy has done that makes him worthy of any support at all. There isn't any. The only reason to support him is that he is not one of the "other guys"; who have been demonized into being fascists, or something akin to it.

It is the biggest scam going, and that is saying something.

An interesting time

Looks like there's been no blog posts for several days now. There's something going on, but not with me personally.

That's not the real reason, but it sort of pushed me over an edge, so to speak. Once the habit of not posting starts, it seems rather easy to stop altogether. I've been pushing myself a bit to continue blogging, to tell the truth. Same thing with this post, as it has been for a long time now. To put it another way, I've been going through the motions.

For awhile there, I thought of doing a farewell post. But I'm not so sure that I want to quit this blog. The trouble is that it is hard to find things that I want to blog about anymore. Politics has never been my favorite thing. At least, that is what I thought. It just doesn't seem to do anything worthwhile to write about it. It is like, what's the point? Those motivated in that way aren't likely to want to listen to reason. At least, that is the way it seems to be.

I've been writing about the off-grid project, but it is getting harder and harder to write about that too. Just one thing seems to occupy my mind, and that is getting the solar project finished up. After that? I don't know.

There's been some good things going on in politics. But mostly, it still seems bad. There's some good things going on in other fields that I've written about. Especially at SpaceX. I wouldn't say this is driven by despair.

The world has always been in turmoil. It is a bit of a myth that there was a "good old days". Not everything was good in the good old days. Not everything is bad now. It just seems different when you think of the past, and today's troubles are foremost in your mind. It seems to overwhelm anything good.

Time keeps marching on. It takes us all to the conclusion that will find us all at some point. What that will be remains to be seen. All good things come to an end, or so I've heard.

In the future, if I have a new vision, I may start blogging more. Or maybe this will be it. I just don't know yet.