Every four years the American public loses its mind. I do not say this to be humorous. People lose their sense of reality. On January 20th, Joe Biden will be installed as President. On January 21th, we will all wake up and go about our day. No one’s life will be drastically affected except for about 10,000 people that live within the beltway of the Washington DC. Maybe 100,000 people if I was being generous. The president has almost no authority. Not even over the executive branch. We endured four years of the FBI, CIA and the Department of Justice attacking Trump. All of which are under the executive branch. He was powerless to stop this. That is because the various bureaucracies are in charge.
This is nothing new. President Kennedy is said to have remarked that dealing with the bureaucracy “is like trying to nail jelly to the wall,” and, in reply to an interlocutor, “I agree with you, but I don’t know if the government will.”
Truman said of his successor:
“He’ll sit here, and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ike-it won’t be a bit like the Army.”
Either way, there is bipartisan support for massive deficits, the welfare state and money printing. Let me give you an example. Two republican Georgia Senators, David Perdue and Keyll Loeffler, got ousted the other day. Every right-wing person thinks this is the end of the country. Both these senators voted for the 5,000 page boondoggle. Trump criticized it. He signed it into law anyway.
Even AOC realized how crazy it was.
She voted to pass it anyway.
This has been going on for a very long time. The fox news watching boomer-con will not believe you when you tell them this. They long for the good old days. “NONO, the system works!” In what sense do they use the word “works”, I do not know. I recommend they read the book by Senator Richardson, “What Makes You Think We Read the Bills?”
It was published in 1978. The only difference between today and 1978 is the visibility of it. This is due to the internet.
Every four years it is tempting to be roped into the madness. I recommend you keep your wits about you.