"Midterms Don't Matter"
Do the midterm elections actually matter?
The Economist's Will Wilkinson doesn't think so. In spite of all the hysteria and "hyperventilating" commercials, Wilkinson argues that policy tends to stay the same regardless of who's in power. While the ruling party will naturally favor their supporters—that's public-employees unions for Democrats and "rich people and Raytheon" for Republicans—Wilkinson maintains that it's unreasonable to expect any big changes from Congress, or even that special interest groups will give up much power. "Military suppliers, big Wall Street interests, and the economic middle-class may do better or worse, but they always do pretty well," Wilkinson writes. In fact, he says,
"this is the great unspeakable fact of American politics: it doesn't matter all that much who wins." At
the New York Times, Ross Douthat refuses to say that November won't make a difference at all, but he does concede that Wilkinson offers a "useful corrective to the vast effort currently underway to persuade you that this election … is a world-historical hinge moment."
Apparently a previously held Guantanamo detainee whispered in someone's ear.
ReplyDeleteNow they are saying there was a dry run in September. One package with some stuff in it that was not a bomb was sent to a Chicago address, so the points could be tracked. Either these people are stupid or the intelligence services are bullshitting us. If this were a TV show no one would watch it because it was so predictable if that is the case. Wait it is a TV show!!
Forget what I wrote above for this. It belongs to the previous post. I can do this because only I read this shit
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