For the last seven years, I haven't found much to enjoy about politics. I'm still interested and try to keep up, but it just hasn't been fun. I've been doing it out of a sense of personal responsibility, rather than as a recreational matter, which is my preference.
Right now, we're at a moment when politics is fun again, and I have John McCain to thank for it. The Republican party is full of dingleberries who are on the verge of foamy-mouthed insanity over the possibility that he'll win their nomination. How someone as certifiably right-wing as McCain fell into so much disfavor with his party is hard to comprehend. This level of demand for ideological purity is the kind of thing I associate with Germany in the 1930s.
McCain is making all the right noises at the moment about being a footsoldier in Reagan's revolution and the other horseshit he has to say to squeak out enough votes to win in the primaries. I hope he's astute enough to realize his political prominence since 2000 has been based on his appeal to moderates, independents, and middle-of-the-roaders. If he's the nominee, which I still believe is tantamount to winning in November, maybe he'll campaign in the general election and govern as a moderate. He can start by picking another moderate as his running mate (assuming he can find one).
The so-called "conservative movement" has produced problems for the country beyond my ability to enumerate; maybe we're seeing the nascent stages of its destruction.
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