Peggy Noonan: We’re Governed by Callous Children - WSJ.com
“If only we follow Obama and the Democrats, it will all get better”? Or, “If only we follow the Republicans, they’ll make it all work again”? I bet you haven’t, or not much.
This is historic. This is something new in modern political history, and I’m not sure we’re fully noticing it. Americans are starting to think the problems we are facing cannot be solved.
As has been her wont of late, Noonan is utterly clueless.
The reason that folks don’t think the GOP or the Dems offer a solution is that it has finally sunk in to most people’s consciousness that, no matter how the Dems and the Republicans try to paint each other as Darkness Incarnate, they are essentially two wings of the same big government, big spending, big taxing hyperparty, a party that is totally in the bag for the various boodlers who fund its members. The bottom line is that a huge corporation will donate to both the GOP and the Dems because, for them, there is little difference between the two - and a few large contributions will erase any minor differences that crop up.
However, ask the Tea Partiers if they are without hope. Ask real conservatives if they think our future is hopeless. Hell, even ask the hotheads of the left if they agree.
No, what we have lost faith in is not the future or America herself, it is in the parties that betray us at every turn for the power and wealth of their own leadership. Noonan misses that, because she is an integral part of the leadership regime of the GOP.
UPDATE: Mike has a somewhat different take.
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This aging harridan needs to hang it up and go softly into that gentle night. She peaked back in ‘86 with the Challenger speech, and has been coasting on that ever since.
Actually, I don’t think we’re in disagreement at all here, Bill. The part I think she got right was the bit about those in charge, which doesn’t exactly conflict with what you said here. In fact, it kind of reinforces it, really.
But yeah, she’s clueless on that first part of her piece. Probably due to myopic depression over Prince Pissypants’s failure to produce the unicorns, pots o’ gold, and world peace ‘n’ love ‘n’ brotherhood ‘n’ stuff he promised.
Fixed that right up for her.
If she’d written that part properly to start with, it would have made much more sense - guess she’s still somewhat blinded by the “dazzling brilliance” of God-King The Won and His Hopey-Changefulness.