Been reading the newish novel from Albert Brooks:
TWENTY THIRTY: The Real Story of What Happens to America. It's a fairly brilliant, and funny, distillation of all the woes that grip our world, set 19 years in the future. An excerpt: "Candidates never aligned themselves with the White House anymore, or even with their own party. They ran as individuals, on the notion of returning America to the people. It was all bullshit, of course. What it really did was introduce a new kind of motionless government. Nothing got done.
"Denying new spending provided the House and the Senate with the illusion of expressing the people's voice. But the people didn't want their lives and their nation's infrastructure to rust away. What they really wanted was somebody to make tough choices, which took a leader. And the one thing the Legislative branch could never be was a leader."
Read the book. You'll laugh. And you'll worry that we really are heading toward a future as Albert Brooks envisions it.
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I've read that book, Bob. Brooks is a lot more hopeful than I am about the mess we're in. But, yes, at least he makes us laugh about the idiots in office.
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