Muck’s Minute #32

This is the First and Last time you’ll hear about Electoral Voting Cycles from Old Muck!

This voting season would not be complete (or maybe better!) without Ol’ Muck’s nickel tossed into the ring.  So hold your noses, get a barf bag handy, a shot of Old Crock over ice on the end table next to you and here we go.

One must remember that the elections this November are not JUST about the President although to hear the media that’s the only thing that matters..  Wrong-oh!  Don’t forget the Supervisor of Elections, Sheriff, Tax Collector, State Legislature Senate and Representatives, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Country Commission Seats,  School Board Members Circuit and District State Judges (who can do an untold amount of local damage if they care too!) and all the dozens of smaller worker bees hopping to hop upon the State or Federal gravy train

First of all, this is not the first (nor will it be the last – short a financial or fiscal collapse or War far beyond what I expect to happen) where there was no one worth a good dammit-it-all-to-hell person to vote for the head of this country.  It’s happened – depending upon which historian you believe – at least a half dozen times over the past 240 some years of this magnificent country’s existence and probably more.

There are assholes of all colors, beliefs, agendas, crony groups, varied tints of greed and personal agendas, shifting cliques of political, tribal, racial, religious and all of varying degrees of their pursuit of power viewed through foggy lenses of ethical filtering.  The ethical filtering reaches from zip-squat to somewhere less than that.

Now and then along comes a LEADER – human, none the less, who puts his pants on one leg at a time, excretes several times a day (if he watches his diet and liquid intake), but this almost unique man has the capability to be a Statesman. He can work with others, compromise with individuals or groups (which, of course means no one is really happy about the outcome but something does get done!), speaks in a tone of voice that can be understood, holds a position that the United States of America and its’ people are the most important things to consider when pondering Presidential or Congressional elections and in evaluating the people trying to get elected try as hard as possible to select those who fit the bill.  This hasn’t happened successfully since Ronald Reagan and he didn’t do a super job of it.  It’s amazing how screwed up things have gotten in a mere 70 years (since Ike held the job).

(And YES! Just as a Fourth Turning is about to bite us all on the ass).

This election cycle is the same as all cycles before it with two exceptions. There have been election cycles just as dirty, just as ugly, meaningless and slimy as this one. Maybe a few even worse.  But not one of them has the combination of absolute immorality, stupidity and insanity coupled with the economic farce, fiscal idiocy and geopolitical minefields that this one has. (Remember, this is only my personal opinion).

There is no Presidential candidate to vote for and no Congress animals to vote for either.

There are several hundreds of trillion dollars of debt which will bankrupt the U.S.A. within the next 4-8 years (i.e. within the possible term(s) of those next “elected”) that is mathematically impossible to avoid.

I will not bore you all to tears in detailing how we go where we are – most people who have read the alt-media, TBP et-al for three to ten years already know exactly how we got here.

I won’t bore you all to tears suggesting piss-ant ways we “can do something” to fix it.  It can’t be fixed.  Malthus was right in the end except he was worried about food to feed the ever growing masses of his day.  But Malthus had plenty of trees to cut down, water wheels to provide burgeoning light industry and the lack of insight into what a monster civilization was about to bloom in such a short time.

We, instead,  will deal with monetary non-policy,  fiscal insanity, resource exhaustion of many Earthly resources necessary to our current way of life and way too many rats in the box (i.e. us) which, in the end, will bring about Malthus’ world only bigger, bloodier and likely to be permanent – somewhat extended by any technology that rushes into the gap to save us for a while.

An off-shoot thought!  Why do you think the European Union is slipping and sliding not so slowly into chaos?  Immigrants? Sure, but why are there so many immigrants? Simply because life in their home countries have become intolerable between failure of currencies, war, terrorism, and Religious conflict and outright death that fleeing seems to be the only answer.

It appears that where ever there is religious conflict, there is war, terror, death and destruction. Extreme belief and views on religion and goes hand in hand with death and destruction.  It becomes more sensible to make a life or death attempt to flee elsewhere where hopefully the immigrant can be left alone to simply live in peace.  This is step one of Malthus’s tale under a religious cover. Most bad things in this world (both personal and national) originate from two things: Religion and Debt.  (But I stray from my subject.)

In this country, another  extremely dangerous political problem likely insoluble is that for years and years, Congress critters, now a club of two fracturing parties with a handful of thinkers scattered throughout both sides, have, year after year abdicated their responsibility to run the country (HAH! You thought the job of running the country belonged to the President???  WRONG! )

The job of running the country is supposedly up to Congress, who represents the people of the country, communicates with them, gives the Executive Branch it’s marching orders and properly funds these projects to get them done. The Executive Branch (President + 1000’s of minions tucked here and there – maybe 100 would do the job) to try unsuccessfully to keep it all straight — well their job is to see to it that Congress’s instructions are carried out within time and on budget.  If Congress doesn’t approve how the Executive Branch is using the money or applying the funds to get a job done, that Congress merely de-funds that part of the project until agreement can be met on doing the job the way Congress wanted within limits of what the Executive can do (it’ called compromise – remember?)

But Congress has, as years have gone by, just abdicated responsibility to the Executive Branch to do the whole shebang with predictable results.  Now the Executive Branch writes Executive orders which acts as laws and ignores laws passed by Congress as it pleases.

This makes the Executive Branch of the Government (remember, under the Constitution there are three INDEPENDENT branches of government: Judicial, Legislative and Executive each with its’ own duties and obligations.

The Executive Branch is turning into a Dictatorship with the cooperation of both Legislative and Judicial Branches of government.

THIS MUST STOP..  NOW..  Or we will indeed find ourselves living under a dictator, call it what you will.

So vote for whoever you want for President – it won’t make a bit of difference in the outcome.

BUT : VOTE for Congressmen and Congresswomen with guts to take the country’s buttons and levers back from the Executive and tell the Executive what to do instead of vice versa.

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Author: MuckAbout

Retired Engineer and Scientist (electronic, optics, mechanical) lives in a pleasant retirement community in Central Florida. He is interested in almost everything and comments on most of it. A pragmatic libertarian at heart he welcomes comments on all that he writes. View all posts by MuckAbout