The tea party, upon being elected, deems it impossible to repeal obamacare, despite the fact that it is unpopular, about to become more unpopular with startling price rises, and that it was quite popular to run against obamacare. Meanwhile, in a move that has absolutely no connection to obamacare, we are seeing a movement to publicize sedative overdose as a peaceful happy death. It generally is not. The dying person …
Category: party politics
Don’t vote. It only encourages them
You will undoubtedly hear that the election is nail bitingly close. That is a lie. To sustain the illusion of a two party state, large numbers of Democrats are elected as republicans. They reliably vote Democrat whenever it matters. Observe, for example, the “bipartisan” budget passed by the supposedly Republican controlled house. And what is the issue of the election? Once in a while Republicans point out that Obama is …
Very minor outbreak of democracy
Elections are about goodies. Even more obamaphones for all. No money down mortgages for minorities. One might hope that republican primaries might be conducted on a slightly higher level. In the recent primary, Eric Cantor campaigned that he was going to bribe the voters with their own stolen money, while David Brat campaigned on issues that have overwhelming support – campaigned against immigration, against crony capitalism, and against Obamacare. Just …
The American right is deader than God
In the last presidential election, nominated governor Romneycare In the election before that, nominated Senator McCain-Feingold The current huge increase in government expenditures and substantial increase in taxes reflects a bipartisan budget that your Tea Party congressman voted for – which means that your tea party congressman voted to fund Obamacare. And, very shortly after the 2014 election, the Republican party is about bring in thirty million Democrat voters.  (Each person …
Progressives are channeling me
Not long before 10-10 no pressure came out, I compared environmentalists the French Revolutionary terrorists, and said that they would murder children for insufficient environmentalism, and then the revolution would devour its children. And lo and behold, they produce an ad depicting themselves murdering children for insufficient environmentalism, and then murdering each other. Observe, the Obama ads for Obamacare: Now people who actually work for a living will fund your …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 2, Crime.
A major reactionary argument is that since the early eighteenth century, since the reign of throne and altar, war, state political repression, state violence against respectable citizens, underclass crime, and minority crime have all risen enormously, that the overclass and underclass are attacking the productive, and the attack has been escalating. Scott’s anti reactionary FAQ points out that murder is pretty much the same as ever it was. Quite so. …
The outer party rolls over
The outer party has rolled over for the inner party and wet themselves. Because they lost, they will be blamed for holding the confrontation at all. Had they won, Democrats would be blamed. In that the Democrats had accepted funding to keep almost all the government open except Obamacare, the Democrats were most of the way to losing. In that the Democrats were starting to call the Republicans crazy, the …
The “shutdownâ€
I have been analyzing the “shutdown†as politics as usual, which is to say, a fake conflict between the inner party and the outer party to give the appearance of democracy. I predicted the Republicans would roll over and wet themselves in a week. It has now been two weeks. I still think it is politics as usual, but the increasingly strident reaction of the inner party organs indicates that …
Obamacare is not the law of the land.
Obamacare is not a law that Congress and the President negotiated together and passed. As Hayek pointed out: Socialism needs a central plan. There are an infinite possible number of different central plans, any one of which will step on the toes of quite a lot of people, so one can never get majority support for any one central plan, or even the support of a significant plurality for any …
The Shutdown problem
The republican party has a big problem: How to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The government has, without quite realizing it, accepted piecemeal funding of everything except Obamacare. There is no shutdown. There is just the government doing occasional bits of petty spitefulness and nastiness to express its hatred of its subjects. Since no shutdown, no reason for the Republicans to pass a bill funding Obamacare. The “shutdown” …