Update for all you political nerds that wouldn't know a baseball if it hit you in the head...the SD Padres are up on the Pathetic Draft Dodgers 3-1.
Oh, and BITE ME if you don't like me tossing in a little baseball talk into this endless thread.
I ALWAYS lose track of baseball and forget this time of year is the title run
LOVE watching baseball pitchers - pitching is always fun to watch
The rest isn't interesting and the sport scared me as a kid and the coordination required to HIT a ball - maybe the hardest feat in sports?
About politics though - it seems like any political discourse or proposed policy - from elected officials down to armchair bureaucrats - should always be somehow couched in the context of where we are historically - right?
Some basic mutual understanding the US assumed a radically different posture and philosophy and opa tempo after 9/11 - AND the post WW2 dollar dominance globally - isn't a permanent fixture of the geopolitical landscape
Because it seems like there are no voices of restraint - and there's almost an assumption we can and should continue functioning more like an empire - and one that uses coercion and military force in situations that often serve other nations or corporate/banking interests vs genuine threats to our citizens or states
We have generated a LOT of resentment and done some pretty haphazard things since 9/11
I think acknowledging that plus the systematic migration of nations fm the dollar and the obvious needs for attention in our backyard - should be the jumping off point for a healthy discussion about how we make foreign policy decisions -
Are you SURE we need to deploy to nation-x at this time?
It really HAS to be us?
New congressional budget and NDAA's - are we REALLY maintaining the configuration of military resources where we left them after WW2?
Do we REAAAALLY want to allow the insane flow of unchecked foreign masses into a country without any logical evaluation of economic or epidemiological impacts?
Just feels like we have no national dialogue on some things that REALLY matter & may soon become critical -
It would be a wonderful if the sane people all acknowledged that we have differences BUT we need to STOP electing ANYONE fm the professional political classes
Start radically voting - even drafting - each other
It wouldn't be overnight- but that would be a political exodus worth taking together
I WILL edit this down later -
Will be up late 💪🤓