The Cabaret of the Politically Grotesque

The Cabaret of the Politically Grotesque

It is a year and two months to the 2016 US presidential election, but the circus of the political freaks and gimps is already in full swing in Washington DC.  With the resignation of Speaker John Boehner in the face of an impending leadership vote, sanity lost to the fanatical grandstanding that is the Right Wing Fascism.

As the deep seeded acrimony continues to standstill the peoples work in Congress, with strong opposition to Prochoice laws and cessation of funding for organizations such as Planned Parenthood being tied to the running of governmental operations. The right wing extremists within the GOP are frankly acting treasonous by undermining infrastructure project funding, obstructing plans for universal healthcare and repeated assaults on the Affordable Care Act, the Obamacare.   

In the last eight years of President Obama’s administration, a presidency so full of the promise of Hope and Change, but the Realpolitik of Washington produced legislation, as the Bard called “Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.  A mixed bag of the following; a mediocre ACA, attempts at passing legislation to curtail Climate change effects, pull out of American forces from a deeply unstable Iraq and Afghanistan that led to disastrous results in the form of ISIS, a resurgent Taliban, appeasement of Russia that lead to annexation of Ukrainian territories, and furthering by default the Russian/Soviet hegemonic agenda.

The aforementioned programs were Conservative in their origins, advocated and presented by previous Republican lawmakers. But the stalwart opposition to this president’s agenda and the absolute unwillingness to compromise on anything for the sake of the American people is an unprecedented state of events. 

As we are exactly 10 years away from the quarter century mark in the 21^st century, these political posturing do nothing but weaken the country, when education, healthcare, capital infrastructure, development and investment programs are curtailed, terminated or underfunded. With the changing demographics of the United States, the GOP must understand that the old paradigm of Caucasian dominance culturally, politically and numerically is drastically shifting to immigrants from Latin America and Asia.

Now is the time for both the Democrats and GOP to come to terms with major differences on policy regarding major issues otherwise the US will lose its status as the sole Super Power of the world.

This writer remembers in his youth the dichotomy of the Free World versus the Soviet Dominance. I dare not imagine a Resurgent Russia, an insurmountable China, or an upcoming India to change the World Order.