Crossposted from Docudharma
There is an infamous Chinese character (Jackie Chan I believe) that says that in every crisis is opportunity.
Well we had/have the crises.....a surplus in fact, and so we had/have a surplus of opportunity as well. The opportunity to rebuild the health care system, the financial system, the Justice system, and to a lesser extent the political system.
If the "Health Care Reforms" just signed in to law are any indication, we are achieving a ratio of waste to opportunity that roughly echos our energy system and our food system....iow massive waste.
Why are "we" wasting this massive opportunity brought about by the massive crises perpetrated by the Republicans under Bush? Because the Democrats are GIVING power to those same Republicans. (With help from the media of course, who are relishing the food fight.) Whether they are allowing the Republicans to have power out of mere political incompetence, or out of the very real fear of having...and thus being accountable for...power themselves, they have allowed the Republicans to act as if they have the power of actually representing someone.
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