They saw the Obama administration come to office on the proposition the Bush policy of intervention failed and elected him to try something else. They also saw his attempts to “lead from behind” and bomb from on high fail too. The Eiffel tower was dimmed for a third time in a week to commiserate with yet another bombing underscoring the fact no one knows the solution. But they do know where wreaths, candles and blinker bulbs can be had and supply them instead.
Maybe Trump doesn’t have a clue about how to fix things. But the more serious problem is not many people are convinced Hillary knows either. Just as the lack of a cure reduces the worth of doctors, elites are on defensive because their stock of knowledge, so useful in the past, is now ineffectual against the present chaos. This helplessness has the effect of lowering their status, as with a priesthood faced with the manifest futility of their rites. Legitimacy is based on working magic and the wizardry is faltering.
I think the majority of those in political power, with the means to do something about “the problem” know what to do about the problem, but are afraid to do anything about it. In particular, afraid to do anything about it that doesn’t reside within their acceptable solutions.
Afraid.
I was hoping Trump’s solution to the Middle East would have been to quickly solve the problems Bush and Obama created and then get out of Dodge and let everyone enjoy killing each other in 7th Century style. I thought his quote that he was president of the United States and not president of the world to be highly appropriate. If a situation in the Meddle East needs intervention let the Saudis, Egyptians, or Eurotrash handle it.
Bbbb but Russia!
“Maybe Trump doesn’t have a clue about how to fix things.” Yeah, maybe…..but that’s not the important question. The most important question is what things NEED fixing? There is an old adage that says, a problem well stated is half solved.
We all know that the problem in the Middle East is foreign intervention. Gee – I wonder how you solve it?
Remember the definition of an expert: X stands for an unknown factor and spert is a drip under pressure.
“I think the majority of those in political power, with the means to do something about “the problem” know what to do about the problem, but are afraid to do anything about it.”
Don’t disagree with your POV, I just have a slightly different take…
I think the majority of those in political power, with the means to do something about “the problem” are in most cases the exact same ones who created the problem, and are NOT afraid to entrench it as a permanent fixture of western culture.
Why solve a problem when you can create a massive bureaucracy to manage it instead?
Drain the scum out of that friggin’ leftist swamp, Mr. Trump! When that is mostly done, I hope you can continue to expose the GOP for the anti-American scum they mostly are too.
Me thinks his premise is off.
Our effete elites are the treacherous parasites who “Nudged” us into this chaos.
They are not clueless they are stupid and evil, pathetic creatures who have so debased politics, that few practical people will voluntarily partake..
We have 5th generation career bureaucrats “helping us”, not only are they clueless of the real world,everyone in their family and social circle are clueless.
They know,without a sliver of doubt, that we need their guidance and help, thus we must pay the cost of their coddled existence.
There is no cure for stupid, but it turns out that society can select for it.
Flakes by Frank Zappa, covers this nicely.
Obama, HER, and John FU Kerry … simply employed the foreign policy they learned as college sophomores from their radical leftist professors. It goes like this … publicly apologize to every country on the planet for the myriad “sins” of a capitalist piggish colonialist America who “bullied” every other nation. Apologise for ever saying America was a Christian nation. Go to a prayer breakfast and tell Christian Americans to “get off their high horse”. Kiss Muslim ass across the planet. Shower our sworn Islamic enemies (Iran, most notably) with piles of untraceable cash. Let them create nuclear weapons … while pretending you’re restraining them. Lie to the “dumb”, fat, hick Americans in fly-over country … they won’t know the difference. Accommodate every whim of The Muslim Brotherhood. Celebrate The Arab Spring. Murder the Libyan Dictator. Set multiple fires and gleefully watch the conflagration. Then … do nothing. Just repeat how absolutely AWFUL America has been … before you and your sophomoric pretenders came along to “fix” everything. Put on erudite airs while lecturing thosvfat, dumb, Americans how you are all geniuses. Simply put … employ foreign relations built on one guiding principle … “if we are nice to everyone, they will be nice to us”. And if they aren’t … then THATS our fault too. As-in … who can blame Irans Leaders from continuing to call us “The Great Satan” even after we give them BILLIONS in bundles of cash. Simply suggest we give them even more … Nice … really Nice.
The world needs more Silent Cals and less FDRs. Most problems will go away if you leave them alone. If you start chemotherapy for a hangnail then you’re making things worse!
I like Mark Steyn’s take on what has happened to leadership in the West.
Our leaders in the West, with the exception of Trump, think that sending trillions of dollars to China, India, and the 3rd world will keep the planet’s temperature at the correct level right down to the exact fraction of a degree and that is how you lead, but ask our leaders for ways to keep the people safe from being blown to hell by the Islamist and all of a sudden they’re completely without any ideas at all.
They’re good with the things that require the grand noble expensive solution, the mundane things like safety not so much.
My favourite thing about forecasting is that two weeks out, weather forecasting regresses to random yet climate genius can predict the weather in 100 years time to 1/100 of a degree based on concentration of a parts per million gas. 97% of non-climate scientists think these guys are assholes.
it’s worse than it looks, they can predict 100 years hence to 1/100th of a degree using devices that have a resolution to the degree, with an acceptable error range of +/-1 degree @ 95% confidence.
London bridge is mowing down. Head to Drudge.
You DO realize that 95% of the American population haven’t a clue about what you just outlined …
However, they can sing every word of Justin Bieber’s entire music catalog. And they mostly rely on Leo DiCrapio for climate change information. Thank you American Teachers UNION !
Dreadful. Happy Ramadan …
They have changed Ramadam to Ramavan to reflect the really of the muslim month of butchery.
Unless we’re willing to brewing them down to their knees they will continue killing ours.
The name of Ramadam has been changed to Ramavan to reflect islamic reality.
Used to be Ramadingdong to reflect prophet’s adventures with his trusty camel.
Is Britanistan starting to cheat to win the Eurovision Virtue Vigil contest for this month or what?
“because their stock of knowledge, so useful in the past”
Um, dude, they simply looted the country for their globalist adventure. You can’t ignore the flotsam and jetsam in their wake.
If you let them they will come.
https://heatst.com/world/leaked-report-says-6-6-million-refugees-are-trying-to-get-into-europe/