Democrats Plan to Ignore Constituents on Healthcare
Just a few quick thoughts on the latest idiot move by Democrats. They have been getting earfuls at townhall meetings, so instead of legitimately listening, they are pretending these are not their constituents’ views. They want to delude themselves into believing instead, they are plants from a vast right wing conspiracy or what they are calling astroturf. I heard Juan Williams on NPR this morning spreading this crapola. It will backfire. Let them believe it, and suffer the consequences when the mid-terms come. Let them take the risk of ignoring those that put them in the position to represent them, and they will pay the price. People don’t have as short a memory as Democrats like to think.
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Posted by Jay on August 6, 2009 8:52 am
» Filed Under 1st Amendment, Democrats, Healthcare, Townhall meeting, liberalism
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As a practical matter, this country lacks the ability to address healthcare (and for that matter ANY problem), in a focused, direct, and coordinated fashion. It is also incapable of really planning much of anything of real value, at least not at this point in time. That type of activity does not fit within our governance model.
What you see here is an example of what happens when ANY entity is run by committee. We’ve known that as a society for a long time.
Our governance model is a “herding cats” governance model, where we let people and the entities they form have the freedom to do most of what they consider to be in their best interests, and we hope that it will also be in society’s best interests.
Sometimes that works for us, and other times it doesn’t. It will never yield consistency in approach, effort, and results. For us to think so is delusional in nature.
We (as a nation) lack the ability to rally around anything, unless it is perceived as An imminent threat to virtually all of us, and that’s not going to happen often. And so we become self-absorbed in thinking about our own personal, close to home minutiae.
There are some positive and negative ramifications associated with ANY alternate approach we might pursue, and the yelling and screaming will always loud and raucous.
As George Will often says, there is the “inertia” which is Washington. There is also the “inertia” which is the U.S. and its constituent parts.
Although this approach has served us well for most of the last 110 years, from a theoretical perspective, one has to wonder how long we can govern ourselves using the “herding cats” governance model, in light of our increase in size and complexity of our citizens.
If the US were run like a business, then every single day, its management team would assess whether its goals are being attained, bust their butts to achieve those goals, ensure that it was getting the maximum value and productivity out of those working for it, and make on the dime changes to most effectively and efficiently reach those goals. In other words, be nimble.
This country is not nimble, and can not be.
I’m not advocating a particular change, either left or right; just the recognition that EVERY governance model has its limitations, and this one is no different. However, for us to think that we can continue to use it and not have negative periods and poor, inappropriate responses to problems, is not reasonable. A country needs to know its limitations.