Governments & governing’s become so complicated! delivering for the people has become an impossibility…

I was going to say that we need a return to decency, but in truth, struggled to find that decent era of the past!

Read Jen Psaki’s article this morning (Jen was White House press secretary when Biden became president) explaining that the new Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mike Johnson) is an election denying, Trumpist who is a lot worse than Jim Jordan, another Trumpist who nearly became Speaker last week. Jen is brilliant, but what exactly is her point? Can anyone who doesn’t support Trump survive in a political party that has decided to follow Trump? We have already seen what happened to Liz Cheney and others, they lost their seat. The Democrats lost their majority in the house, so, whose fault is that? If Mike Johnson is supposedly worse than Jim Jordan, why didn’t the democrats vote to keep McCarthy in? (it was 8 Republicans that removed him. There are over 200 democrats in the house. Just 10 of them (Democrats) could have scuppered the 8 who did McCarthy in). Yes, everyone can put all sorts of arguments forward, but seriously!!!??? Let’s stop being so bloody idiotic!!!
What exactly have the Democrats done in the last several years? Obama era, Biden so far. And PLEASE, the answer is not: well, they are less crazy or they are no worse than Republicans or they were frustrated by the Republicans!
It can’t be just about sounding less crazy!

There’s a refugee/asylum seeker crisis: what can be done?
Building a wall was clearly idiotic as it was never going to work; even if the US built a 100ft wall completely around the country (including water bodies), it will be breached!
What’s the plan? Where’s the plan? Can the countries bring fled by so many, for whatever reasons, be assisted? If we don’t want people trooping in, can we help the countries they’re coming from, to avoid the crisis (be it wars or economic hardship) that lead to their people seeking exits?
These are not just ideological issues and you want to see Democrats come up with REAL solutions and not just a less crazy disposition or kinder words etc.

Democrats will never get a one-party democracy, it simply doesn’t exist. It’s called something else! So, knowing there will always be an opposition party and potential to lose control of the house or senate and face frustrations to rolling out laws etc., that is how a democratic system is designed to work. You have to be able to get things done, within those constraints! It is what it is!
A government comes in and is immediately worried about not doing anything to lose the mid-term elections or are immediately worried about making sure they win a second term! Don’t rock the boat!
So, NOTHING gets done!
Yes, getting a black woman on the Supreme Court and stuff like that, which decent folk like Biden’s government would try to do, are all good, BUT why not go all out and actually try to do some big things that, granted, if they try and fail, they will lose the next few elections, but if they succeed….

Same problem in the UK and pretty much everywhere else. We complain about the rise of populism and an increase in intolerance, awful language and denigration of people etc., but talking about it is hardly going to solve the problem is it???! It’s a NO GUTS, NO GLORY situation. If populism is on the rise due to some people getting fed up with what they see as an uncontrollable rise in illegal migration, then FIX the problem! or at least put forward some ideas! Instead, it’s just talk!

You look at America, they have hundreds of thousands in their prisons. But they continued to use sentencing rules that end up locking more and more people up! Can a government not break that cycle??! Nope! It will rock the boat….

Here in the UK, we have poverty levels shooting through the roof, but we’re not creating jobs. Instead, we wrapped ourselves up in the Brexit matter, which nobody really understood but the point-scoring is more important

These supposedly ‘better’ folk do not appear to solve any problems either! They just sound better, say fewer crazy stuff, appear more humane, but at the end of the day, deliver very little, because they are not making bold decisions