Political fatigue

I think most rational people are really getting tired. It is hard to maintain energy when no progress is being made or at least any progress that can be seen.

And there are some Trump supporters though who are not feeling this same fatigue. When you feel an injustice has been carried out or is being carried out, a person can derive more energy than someone who feels justified in their actions. Anger carries more energy than a moral high ground. It may make no sense sometimes, for example, the energy to create a human wall at the border, but once there it is hard to dissipate or even more importantly bring back to rational thought. They may not keep the human wall forever, but they can keep their anger for a dangerously long time.

And the Democrats are not doing themselves any favors by declaring for the Presidency. It is not just how many, nor how soon, but it is jumping into the fray without any direction. With so many Democrats declaring themselves there is already a hodgepodge feeling instead of a unified front. For all the moral dignification we have against Trump, there is still a strong ground swill of Trump supporters mad at the establishment. Trump successfully manages their anger and is turning it against our institutions without them even knowing they are destroying what makes it possible for them to support Trump.

And independents like myself can tire easily of this madness and become complacent. Sometimes I need to force myself to continue battling my battles. I know most people are hard pressed to accept my ideas of needing new parties. Even many self-identified independents spend more time picking and choosing between the two parties instead of truly separating themselves politically and making a statement or choosing independent or third-party candidates. I do not fight this battle alone, but the two parties still hold sway over the body politic in this country. I know we must break their monopoly on the political system yet getting people to make that leap is very challenging.

Our Country tires of the madness. Shoot, even Stephen Colbert is struggling making jokes night after night. Trump offers no future for our Constitution and our Country, but there is no one that can rally the people to the same level of energy he can amongst his supporters. And that is what it is going to take to remove this cancer from our country. Someone who can overwhelm Trump at his own game. And hopefully that someone will have the same values for our Country and Constitution that most of us have but cannot muster the energy to save it. You can always find a despot to beget more madness from madness. Right now, we need someone energetic who can muster the same anger at Washington that Trump managed to corral amongst a much larger and unified front. A person who can redirect that anger back into something practical and breaks up the DC establishment at the same time.

The Republicans at the National level may hate Trump, but they use him for their benefit, so they say nothing. Republicans are joiners, they want to be on the right side. Taking chances on something new does not come easy for them. So, Trump portraying himself as the man who understands them and is here to save them makes it easy for them to jump on his bandwagon. Supporting change is difficult for his crowd. Trump described change as going back to the dream world they thought existed in some fairy tale America. There was an idolization of the 1950’s that seemed to exist. All the turmoil brewing didn’t happen then, and it wasn’t supposed to happen. Everything that changed that fantasy was bad. It didn’t exist, yet you cannot tell the Trump supporters that. Bad (to them better described as change) was happening, it just wasn’t in the headlines yet. Now two generations later you have people who were sold a fairy tale and for some reason cannot accept that ship never happened, and the ill truth is whatever part of it that did exist has sailed.

This country is greater because of change, change in the 1960’s, 1860’s and 1760’s. Change causes pain, uncertainty, frustration, anger, and the larger the change, the larger the angst.

Today’s angst is not a healthy angst though. It is predicated on a false belief system and right now too much anger has no purpose. It is there though wearing on many of us. This fatigue is dangerous because real problems are developing for our true way of life. I am not saying we need a hero, we need a person that wants to put them self above their own ego and drive our madness back into being mad at all the real injustices facing our country so we can continue to be great.

Cheers

There was an idea, then it was gone.