Politics interests me. I have developed a core belief system that I frequently analyze and try to polish. I am fairly certain of my core beliefs but I think it would be irresponsible to not recognize the fact that I could be wrong, these days I hope that I am.
As I think about the state of our country and the political climate inescapably tied to it I have concluded that in many cases, only time will tell.
Only time will tell. However, I do have a few guesses about events that will likely take place in the not so distant future.
I believe that the political tug-of-war will continue for an undetermined number of years in which the Republicans and the Democrats will exchange presidencies and political majorities, all the while arguing about out how to spend the loot and centrally plan our carefully constructed façade of a market economy. In the absence of true change over years, I believe this country will find itself in an unsustainable financial crisis in which the dollar has lost a great deal of its purchasing power thus causing many hardships for a large number of Americans, particularly the already struggling middle and lower classes.
However, when these hardworking, taxpaying, law-abiding citizens raise their fist to condemn whoever it is to blame for the destruction of their country. The two parties will be very clever in the way that they place the blame on the other party’s head. Each side will believe it is the other side’s fault while pointing out semi-trivial instances where the other party slipped up. Left with the decision to become more polarized or to ignore political party lines and simply blame the statist elites on both sides of the aisle, I hope Americans will strike at the systemic root of our problem. The state itself.
It is hard to predict what will happen when my beloved country finds itself in a desperate situation of this magnitude. I think I would rather not even guess at what things will be like and just wait for time to tell because it always does.
