The Good News IS The Bad News, Booman.

Regarding Booman’s recent post Good and Bad News regarding the (supposed) decline and thus end of the RatPublican party, the Booman contributor “obsessed” wrote the following highly perceptive comment:

I’m counting on the Republicans to keep this up.

Enjoy the insufferable grind. Gridlock is our friend. Obama is determined to cut social security and medicare and to install Larry Summers as Fed Chief. If the Republicans give him a chance he’ll be the most anti-middle class president since Reagan.

I just want him to sit down and shut up. People with no spines really should not try to stand up. And they should DEFINITELY not try to make deals with Republicans.

I just want his term to be over before he can do more harm. There is no way on earth for the Republicans to win the WH in 2016. If we had a strong, progressive Congress, they could control a democratic president. In lieu of that, we’re better off with the utter recalcitrance of the current crew. PLUS – the more outrageous they are, the larger the infinitesimally small chance of a progressive wave election in 2014.

Obama protects us from them with his veto pen. They protect us from Obama. That’s the best case scenario. Let’s just run out the damned clock.

OH yes!!!

I started a reply and it grew.

Read on.
An excellent comment, obsessed!

Stalemate as a useful way of life. I am reminded of all of those regularly occurring “POLICE STRIKE!!!” stories over the years.

BLUE FLU!!!

POLICE STRIKE!!!

IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!!! THE BAD GUYS WILL TAKE OVER!!!

HELLLLP!!!

And then the emergency passes, and buried in the back of whatever media dare to print or speak it you will see statistics that say there was less crime during the police strike than either before or after it.

I often call myself a nonarchist. The following explains why.

Anarchy is chaos. Polyarchy is a control system. Every “—archy” rapidly regresses (if of course it does not start there in the first place) to a position of corruption in the name of “controlling the people”. The reason why American society so rapidly progressed during the 20th Century, the reason that the U.S. became the colossus that it is?

A form of nonarchy.

There were holes in the system…big holes, serious holes…through which the human spirit could manifest itself uncontrolled. Those holes persisted right through the late ’60s/early-to-mid ’70s, and then the walls started to to close in. The holes in the walls began to be patched by “technology,” by technology that was itself controlled by corporate interests that only desired conformity and the profits that can be made through the utter predictability of that conformity.

And here we jolly well are, folks. Controlled like a motherfucker and…most of us, anyway…loving every minute of it.

WIKILEAKS!!!

THAT AWFUL SNOWDEN FELLA!!!

THEY WANT TO STOP US FROM HAVING OUR SECRETS!!!

THE BAD GUYS WILL TAKE OVER IF THEY STOP US!!!

SURVEILLANCE IS GOOD!!!

HELLLLP!!!

If there is anything that you can bet on, it is this.

Short of some kind of total collapse of the control system as it now stands…economically, due to whatever reasons (A really bad oil situation being the most likely, but a heavy terrorist hit or climate change-caused emergency might do the job too)…you will not see any presidential candidates or political “leaders” of any stripe whatsoever other than so-called centrists…people who have thoroughly signaled their agreement with the rigid control system now thoroughly in place…being strongly financed (and thus media-supported) during the 2016 election cycle.

Bet on it.