TriSec's
blog yesterday got me thinking, and I decided to write a sort of "companion piece" to it from my own personal point of view and experience. I will echo his overall gist: our current balkanized political morass is untenable. The sheer venality and oligarchic stance of the modern Republican party has resulted in a government that cannot get anything done, as the Republicans refuse to budge at all - even on issues they've always supported.
That "how did we get here" question was given some context (for me) yesterday upon hearing of the passing of Senator Max Cleland (D-GA) at the tender age of 79. We'll get to that in a minute.
When Nixon was unceremoniously run out of town on a rail, he was universally reviled for his attempts to use illegal and strong-arm tactics to maintain his control on power. Save for a handful of loyalists and party uber alles types, no one was sad to see him go. That was probably the last time the Republicans acted with any sense of fealty to the Constitution.
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