This just in: Our democracy is more frail than we want to admit.

I have a few miscellaneous observations that lead me to believe that one of the following is true: (1) Our democracy is suddenly failing or (2) Our democracy has always been troubled but modern media holds this fact up to our faces.

My list of observations:

1. Political crimes are going unpunished. We form committees to investigate. They find horrendous things happened. It hits the news and then…nothingburger.
2. Proud boys show up at school board meetings to intimidate people charged with making sure our children are educated. My guess is that the average maximum educational level attained by your average Proud Boy is around 3rd grade.
3. A multi-millionaire and coal baron poses as a Democrat to make sure his industry is not adversely affected by Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
4. A Republican posts a video (animation) of him killing a rival from the opposing party. The Republican Party leadership is predictably silent.
5. Republicans voted at a single unit to give tax breaks to billionaires in 2017 and added $7.8 trillion to the debt our children now have to pay for.
6. Republicans voted, almost unanimously, against spending tax dollars to invest in our country’s infrastructure which is rapidly falling into a third world status.
7. In the face of overwhelming evidence that our elections are safe, Republicans, with zero evidence, are campaigning to keep Democrats from “stealing” another election. This is like standing outside on a sunny day and campaigning on a platform that says the sun does not exist.
8. A Fox News personality has made a tv series that proposes the storming of the capital on 1/6 was actually an undercover operation by Democrats. His viewers eat it up.
9. A 17 year old takes an automatic rifle to a BLM rally and kills 2 people while wounding others…cries on the stand as if he’s the victim.
10. Three white men kill an unarmed black man…on video. Their defense boils down to (1) he’s black and thus must have been stealing something and (2) he’s black.
11. It turns our that we have been sending pallets of cash directly into the pockets of random Afghans. We were paying for 300,000 Afghan soldiers when there were actually less than half of that. Various Afghan government officials reported higher numbers and then kept the extra money. It took us 20 years to notice.
12. A congresswoman claims that spending tax payer dollars to better the lives of tax payers is communism.
13. Inflation is taking off. A Republican appointed Fed Chief has taken no action to curb this (i.e. raising the interest rate). Meanwhile, Republicans and Manchin blame the new spending bill. Notably, none of the money from the spending bill is anywhere close to entering the economy. Blaming a spending bill that has not yet be enacted for a spike in inflation ignores how prices are actually set. When demand exceeds supply…of anything…the cost of what is in demand will go up. Our global supply chain is in a shambles. The supply of everything we want is down as a result. This cannot help but cause inflation. We are trying to mow our lawns by combing our hair.
14. 13 Republicans voted to spend tax payer money on tax payers. The Republican party finds this outrageous and threatens to punish these 13 people.
15. Everyone in congress is working to “create jobs.” None of them have noticed that we don’t have enough workers to fill the current jobs. Meanwhile, millions of potential workers/tax payers are waiting on the other side of the border.

In the end, the people we elect are incompetent. So, what does this say about us…the people that elected them.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim