Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“The Democrats objecting to Schumer’s surrender don’t, for the most part, offer any attractive alternative to the GOP program. Like the Republicans, they’re fine with insane levels of government spending, continuing deficits, increasing debt, and onerous taxation. The whole thing is half Off-Off Broadway theater and half what Freud called ‘the narcissism of small differences,’ wherein similar people with similar ideas lose their minds over trivial disagreements. For those of us who aren’t in the tank for either party, it’s less complicated. First, if a government function is ‘non-essential,’ why is government doing it in the first place? Second, if we’re going to bother putting ourselves through the recurring ritual of electing supposed representatives to guard whatever we perceive as our interests, shouldn’t we expect those representatives to actually fight for those interests?” (03/15/25)