Busy day, getting an early start.
As mentioned yesterday, it seems the major media may now be willing to actually open their eyes to facts, beginning to seriously question acts of their favorite politician. Presently, several headline-worthy stories are gaining wider attention, including the Benghazi raid, the Boston bombing and now, the administration's use of the IRS against potentially threatening conservatives and Tea Party members prior to the last presidential election.
The details of the issues involved disclosed an emerging pattern, with similarities that should have been glaringly obvious to me all along. Because what we’re seeing here is nothing more than good old “Chicago Politics,” taken to the national level. And that’s the problem now facing the administration from top to bottom.
Looking for a concise description of the subject, I found one on the web from the combined Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society and The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library, as follows: “Chicago politics is a national cliché, evoking images of a one-party system, dominated by a boss-controlled Democratic political machine whose crafty politicians dangle patronage before competing ethnic and racial groups in return for votes. “
Now, while the system’s obviously worked extremely well in Chicago for many years, perhaps as far back as 1871, it seems that it’s much harder, if not impossible to sustain at the national level. And the reason, I believe, is pretty simple to understand.
Although the Census Bureau confirmed that, in July 2011, there were 2,707,120 people living in the city of Chicago, all those folks were in a contained area, making it relatively easy for powerful politicians to identify problematic situations and fix or remove them fairly quickly.
What’s more, in that kind of environment governing skills or knowledge aren’t really needed at all. The only thing that counts is making sure that enough votes are amassed on election day, regardless of how they were derived or from whom.
And although that’s the flaw that’s been there all along for the current administration, it hasn’t mattered till now because the massive amounts of errors made over the past four plus years haven’t been reported by the major media at all.
But now, at last, that scenario may finally be changing. whereas the administration’s level of incompetence is simply too large to go unnoticed, even by the media flaks ordinarily biased in their reporting, trying to keep their political favorites in office.
So, as earlier suggested, the administration now has problems which can’t be fixed by strong arm tactics, threats, bribes or intimidation. Because the solutions require real governance experience, capabilities and skills it's never obtained and its far too late to try to learn them now.
And what’s even worse, is that the cover always relied on, compatriots in the press ignoring all the errors and incompetence, may no longer remain in place. All of which is extremely hard to deal with for the incumbent president and his former Secretary of State, both lacking the skills for their positions from the very beginning, and neither growing an iota job-wise ever since.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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