Where you been, Tom? You know, the cartoon has a good point. A driver-less car is better than a car driven by someone intent on driving it off the road. For years a certain group of people have been devoting themselves to the proposition that the USA, as a nation, acting under and through the present Constitution, can do nothing right. When elected to office, they do all they can do prove that proposition is true by sabotaging every effort to do anything, or solve any problem. Thus proving themselves right in the first place! And it has been a winning strategy for them! Perhaps they were right all along. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to build a car when you know that sooner rather than later a person is going to be behind the wheel whose intention is to wreck it. Perhaps it is foolish to dream of a nation that uses its collective power to do good things for the benefit of its citizens. Perhaps we should, like those others, give up on the nation as such, and just work to create and strengthen organizations and structures outside of state and federal ones, to do the things that need doing, to do the things that other nations do for themselves as nations. Then we could devote our political energies to ensuring that at least the nation “does no harm” and does not stand in the way. Perhaps. The thing that I find remarkable is that the group who seem most intent of castrating the nation and rendering it as impotent as possible, as little able to actually serve and protect its people as possible, who act to infantilize the government and make it good for nothing ALSO have the gall to call themselves patriotic and wave the flag that their other actions only serve to embarrass.
Yes it is. They can’t even figure out how to run their own party. Their decision to have a convention in Cleveland rather than Texas is really strange. They seem to be so divided and confused they can’t do anything anymore. They are completely screwed up.
Dtroutma almost 10 years ago
At least they aren’t texting!
Doughfoot almost 10 years ago
Where you been, Tom? You know, the cartoon has a good point. A driver-less car is better than a car driven by someone intent on driving it off the road. For years a certain group of people have been devoting themselves to the proposition that the USA, as a nation, acting under and through the present Constitution, can do nothing right. When elected to office, they do all they can do prove that proposition is true by sabotaging every effort to do anything, or solve any problem. Thus proving themselves right in the first place! And it has been a winning strategy for them! Perhaps they were right all along. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to build a car when you know that sooner rather than later a person is going to be behind the wheel whose intention is to wreck it. Perhaps it is foolish to dream of a nation that uses its collective power to do good things for the benefit of its citizens. Perhaps we should, like those others, give up on the nation as such, and just work to create and strengthen organizations and structures outside of state and federal ones, to do the things that need doing, to do the things that other nations do for themselves as nations. Then we could devote our political energies to ensuring that at least the nation “does no harm” and does not stand in the way. Perhaps. The thing that I find remarkable is that the group who seem most intent of castrating the nation and rendering it as impotent as possible, as little able to actually serve and protect its people as possible, who act to infantilize the government and make it good for nothing ALSO have the gall to call themselves patriotic and wave the flag that their other actions only serve to embarrass.
ARodney almost 10 years ago
Except that name calling is perfectly fine when it’s perfectly true. The Republican Party is the problem.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Yes it is. They can’t even figure out how to run their own party. Their decision to have a convention in Cleveland rather than Texas is really strange. They seem to be so divided and confused they can’t do anything anymore. They are completely screwed up.
lopaka almost 10 years ago
Google wants a driverless car. That is a car that has a brain in it. That’s far better than the car in the cartoon.
Jason Allen almost 10 years ago
Seeing as how more people would vote in a reality show poll than in an election, that doesn’t surprise me.
gammaguy almost 10 years ago
Frankly, I wouldn’t trust Google with controlling the driving any more than I’d trust those two.