TheBrutalTruth
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/business/economy/12every.html?ref=business
Just an interesting Op Ed Piece, but to add my own spin.
Perhaps Obama's administration should consider its appearance outside of it's hollow-headed do-good fuck-over-the-middle-class policies and really examine how it is acting. In truth, the closest example I can think of is an example that comes from a Tom Clancy Novel about Gordon's Uplink International and how it was attacked by a fictionary character named Armitage (I think.)
In that novel Uplink International is compared to a triplet Siamese. The first of the three is a poet, the second is a great drinker, and the third is a fisherman. Night after night the drinker drinks himself to death, and the poet can not concentrate for the din of the bar. The third, the fisherman, suffers from hangovers while going fishing, and each day, instead of catching fish he loses his fishing poles as he passes out while fishing. The conflict of personality leads to endless fights, and all three suffer for the indulgences of the second.
Instead of reaching a compromise the three end up slowly becoming more and more consumed in their fighting, doomed to become like the Gorgons of Greek Mythology. Perhaps this is an apt comparison for the Democrats, where one section favors a responsible budget (Blue Dog) and the others favor outright Socialism (Obama's Bitches) and the third just wants some reform that will help people.
In the end the indulgences of the Socialists will lead the whole party to ruin, but like any monopoly the Democrats are doomed to competition. The question is, will it ultimately come because the Blue Dogs, which favor a responsible government that does not act in a stupid, premature manner finally get sick of having to deal with the hang overs inspired by the carousing of the Socialists and demand a split?
Or will it be the Centrists that demand the split, sick of having their reforms associated with a Left of center ideology that has already been proven not to work, regardless of how little of its ideas are put in place?
Will the Democrats face another split that will lead to a multiparty system, or will they continue to behave like the Siamese-triplets mentioned above where the indulgences of one of the three leads to the failure of all?
Just an interesting Op Ed Piece, but to add my own spin.
Perhaps Obama's administration should consider its appearance outside of it's hollow-headed do-good fuck-over-the-middle-class policies and really examine how it is acting. In truth, the closest example I can think of is an example that comes from a Tom Clancy Novel about Gordon's Uplink International and how it was attacked by a fictionary character named Armitage (I think.)
In that novel Uplink International is compared to a triplet Siamese. The first of the three is a poet, the second is a great drinker, and the third is a fisherman. Night after night the drinker drinks himself to death, and the poet can not concentrate for the din of the bar. The third, the fisherman, suffers from hangovers while going fishing, and each day, instead of catching fish he loses his fishing poles as he passes out while fishing. The conflict of personality leads to endless fights, and all three suffer for the indulgences of the second.
Instead of reaching a compromise the three end up slowly becoming more and more consumed in their fighting, doomed to become like the Gorgons of Greek Mythology. Perhaps this is an apt comparison for the Democrats, where one section favors a responsible budget (Blue Dog) and the others favor outright Socialism (Obama's Bitches) and the third just wants some reform that will help people.
In the end the indulgences of the Socialists will lead the whole party to ruin, but like any monopoly the Democrats are doomed to competition. The question is, will it ultimately come because the Blue Dogs, which favor a responsible government that does not act in a stupid, premature manner finally get sick of having to deal with the hang overs inspired by the carousing of the Socialists and demand a split?
Or will it be the Centrists that demand the split, sick of having their reforms associated with a Left of center ideology that has already been proven not to work, regardless of how little of its ideas are put in place?
Will the Democrats face another split that will lead to a multiparty system, or will they continue to behave like the Siamese-triplets mentioned above where the indulgences of one of the three leads to the failure of all?
