Noting, that is - that ~ half of our One Political Party with Two Right Wings: spends a significant % of its slogans: decrying 'The Govmint' as if it were a foreign occupying power. For decades this mantra has been featured prominently (I recall gramma ... ...)

Similarly: Donald Trump, Billy n'Bally, briefly: *Any* robber baron du jour - continues to be lionized, even by the victims of his (mostly it IS 'his') rapacity. Clearly ours is a culture which admires Winning via any means possible and especially do we admire,

Winning It All.. a var. of, ALL or: nothing much except, a commute to daily-hell.. forever.

No matter the pious periodic intoning of "how Fair is our Free Market", the clear message of this respect for the alpha-Raptors is: the vast majority of fellow citizens are simply fools, too 'incompetent' to emulate the raptors and Get Their's the Same Way!

So I guess that 'we' indeed get the government (and the inevitable local insurrections as follow) which we deserve -




Ashton