Complacency: n, A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy.
In other words, complacency means clueless.
If you walk down the meanest street in town with earphones in and you get mugged, did you contribute to that outcome?
Politically we Americans have been THE most complacent people around. We seldom have total participation in an election, of any sort.
My personal history saw complacency lead to embezzlement of my homeowners association. No one paid attention, everyone trusted the guy who did it. The treasurer never looked at the accounts and the guy forged signatures on all these checks.
And so it goes in larger political entities. There is a price to pay for not paying attention. We keep sending the same people back term after term. Who is minding the store? They are busy lining their own nests with relatives in lobbying firms and multiple conflicts of interest.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Alinsky Radical and What's Going on in Washington Now
In November voters punished the Republican party for the perceived harms of the Bush administration.
In January Barack Obama took the reins of government and galloped into the future still proclaiming "It's Bush's fault!"
He sends his forces marching out on a multi-front assault on our way of life and our entire system of government.
This follows several decades of lax regulation and harmful lending practices promulgated on American banks by long-standing Democrat politicians. These were the same people who denied there were any problems and now blame the Bush administration for the troubles.
He is forging far ahead of where the country is willing to go, in a classic operation out of Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. He is shooting for 100% of the community organizer's ideal programs in a shot gun broad approach.
He surely knows there will be a backlash, and the Alinsky advise was to accept the amount you always thought you would be able to get.
When the backlash comes there will be a rollback, but probably not all the way. There will have been an incremental creep toward socialistic governance.
And that is fine with a community organizer in the Saul D. Alinsky model.
In January Barack Obama took the reins of government and galloped into the future still proclaiming "It's Bush's fault!"
He sends his forces marching out on a multi-front assault on our way of life and our entire system of government.
This follows several decades of lax regulation and harmful lending practices promulgated on American banks by long-standing Democrat politicians. These were the same people who denied there were any problems and now blame the Bush administration for the troubles.
He is forging far ahead of where the country is willing to go, in a classic operation out of Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. He is shooting for 100% of the community organizer's ideal programs in a shot gun broad approach.
He surely knows there will be a backlash, and the Alinsky advise was to accept the amount you always thought you would be able to get.
When the backlash comes there will be a rollback, but probably not all the way. There will have been an incremental creep toward socialistic governance.
And that is fine with a community organizer in the Saul D. Alinsky model.
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