It’s not the meanness and focus on petty retribution that worries me most about what is going on now in Washington D.C. — although those things are indeed worrisome. It’s the astonishing level of amateurish incompetence.<\/p>\n
It’s like somebody says they will fix your car, and then they proceed to smash it to bits with a sledgehammer. But in this case it’s a government that is being smashed to bits.<\/p>\n
And that means the stakes are very high. When idiots start dismantling the mechanisms required for a nation to function, people suffer and people die.<\/p>\n
After these goons are voted out (assuming that your vote will still count by then), I wonder how people will remember all this.<\/p>\n
I’m imagining a future poll in which citizens are asked how they voted in 2024. I suspect that the number who are willing admit that they voted for this clown will be very close to zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s not the meanness and focus on petty retribution that worries me most about what is going on now in Washington D.C. — although those things are indeed worrisome. It’s the astonishing level of amateurish incompetence. It’s like somebody says they will fix your car, and then they proceed to smash it to bits with … Continue reading “Future poll”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27366,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27365\/revisions\/27366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}