Friday Rant: History Regurgitates Itself edition

By Tom Toles

I guess we’re in store for some comedy. If history repeats, and the second go-round is farce, then brace yourself for some grim laughs. The voters are sending the wingnuts back to DC for more of the same.

How this is happening is anybody’s guess, but a government of absolute acrimony, gridlock and shutdown is gearing up for another act. Everybody says they don’t like it, but we’re about to re-elect it.

Things are quiet now. Too quiet, as they say. Everybody has been behaving so as to cause the memory-impaired American voter to forget just how awful it had gotten. But nothing has changed. We are setting the table for a second course of Armageddon.

Yes, the Constitution rigged the Senate to be anti-democratic, and the state legislatures have rigged the district boundaries to be anti-democratic on the House side, and the courts have rigged the process to restrict (certain) voters and facilitate runaway campaign politician-buying. All true, and yet.

And yet center left voters, if they in fact actually exist, “aren’t motivated” enough to bother to vote. And if all of the above doesn’t motivate them, then they are just asking for it. Ask and you shall indeed receive.



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