In which the Light Brigade be the US. All of us.
Hey. Assholes. Yeah, I’m talking to the obstructionist dipshits who want to pretend that all this carnage around us is the victim’s fault. You also may answer to the names, “Republican”, “Blue Dog”, “Conservative”, “Moderate”, or, in doublespeak at its most insidious and modern, “Centrist”. Keep blocking up like this, you’ll just kill the body that you so enjoy polluting by refusing to do your job.
We can go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and threaten to blow Iran off the face of the planet. We can conduct a nonstop campaign of drone and helicopter attacks in Pakistan and run a network of secret prisons around the world. We are the mightiest nation mankind has ever seen.
But we can’t seem to build a railroad tunnel to carry commuters between New Jersey and New York.
The United States is not just losing its capacity to do great things. It’s losing its soul. It’s speeding down an increasingly rubble-strewn path to a region where being second rate is good enough.
Addendum: The Krugmaninator weighed in a few days ago, was what I originally wanted to link to, and I blame work and this shitty JJ Abrams Star Trek date rape of a movie on Netflix for all delays.
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