There is an excellent, even possibly important article at The New Republic today I just saw because of blogger, social media friend Matt Payton over at his blog Matt Payton's Tumble-o-rama I can't recommend highly enough.
We are in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance.
Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it?
This is an ongoing catastrophe.
Every day brings a new reason to feel outraged or numbed by its scope.
Here's the quote of the day:
If Donald Trump loses in November, our political system’s last true believers will think that the system worked precisely as it is supposed to: It held him accountable. But this is an ongoing catastrophe of government as a whole. Every day brings a new reason to feel outraged or numbed by the scope of the disaster. We haven’t begun to grapple with the breadth of it. Governors, big-city mayors, public health officials, and congressional leaders should be resigning in disgrace, firing those responsible, groveling for forgiveness, or fleeing town under cover of night.
Instead, they are mainly just waiting for the worst to be over, until the moment they, too, can put out celebratory posters. That the majority of our leaders seem not to be embarrassed or ashamed of their failures—some may not even think of them as failures—raises doubts about whether good governance is even possible in our political system. Americans have, this year, shown a heroic willingness to take to the streets in protest and riot. If they have not yet demanded accountability and consequences for the officials who presided over this unprecedented failure of the state, it might be because hardly anyone has real faith in the ability of their government—at the federal, state, county, or city level—to accomplish anything but policing and jailing people. That isn’t cynicism so much as resignation.
Go. Read the article. It's excellent. It gives great information and asks great questions.
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