Chip Bok cartoon via Townhall
Roger Kimball published a fairly long column over the
weekend, “Abandon the Swamp” at American
Greatness. Here are two paragraphs
summarizing Mr Kimball’s solution to the ongoing progressives vs conservatives
crisis:
The focus should be on eclipsing
Washington, D.C. as the seat of government. It has long been obvious to candid
observers that there is something deeply dysfunctional about that
overwhelmingly Democratic, welfare-addicted city. It is a partisan sinkhole.
Jefferson wanted the capital moved from New York to Washington in part to bring
it closer to the South, but also to place it somewhere that was officially
neutral. There is nothing neutral about Washington today. The city has some
impressive architecture and urban vistas. They should be preserved and staffed
as tourist attractions. But the reins of power should be relocated.
The more I think about our
situation, the more I believe the only hope for the republic is to downgrade
the place of Washington in our public life. The business of Washington is to
make government bigger—forever. That is not what the people, who pay for it,
want. Legitimacy is draining out of our governing institutions at an alarming
rate. Stanching that debilitating flow requires that we redirect our attention
away from the greedy puppet show in
Washington to the true source of legitimacy, which is with the people.
“The greedy puppet show.”
Fits right in with Sundance’s scenario that all of the DC political construct
is a “Potemkin Village”, maintained to provide us plebes with the “Illusion of
Choice.” Read Mr Kimball's column here.
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