It’s official. I cannot tell the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats anymore. On every answer last night — from how many giveaways they promised (the government’s now going to buy up everyone’s mortgage? health care is a right??) to how much they each want to send American troops all around the world — each candidate was worse than the other. That Tweedledum pays lip service to free markets while supporting the exact same thing as Tweedledee doesn’t a difference make. It’s Jack Johnson v. John Jackson. (Points to whomever gets that one.)
The one saving grace in all this is, as interested as I am in politics as a spectator sport, I have cultivated an uncanny ability to avoid government having any affect on my life. Sort of like creating my own little Galt’s Gulch. I think a lot of people do.
Besides, all human are vermin in the eyes of Morbo.
The question is, will government leave us alone, in spite of our best efforts to keep to our own little corner? Too many people in and out of government want our elected officials to help us, whether we want it or not. Read a letter to the editor the other day. The guy said people have lost lots of money with the stock market crashes and it proved to him that “the people” don’t want private retirment funds. They want the government to do it for them. The hell we do!