Tis the season
Whatever your political leanings, this particular electoral season has offered a lot to be upset about. With all the lawsuits, lawyers rushing around getting ready for a fight, political games, claims and counter claims, the entire process looks like a mess. My general response is that this is just politics and politics is messy. But in the midsts of this, I wonder if this country’s political system ever were to fall apart, would the beginning of its decline look any different than this.
Excellent coverage of the election issues brewing in Indiana can be found over at the Indiana Law Blog.
Jim Kunstler has achieved a good degree of reflection in a post today on his site, and it is worth a read:
Our worship of technology (and cluelessness about its diminishing returns) has led us to ‘fix’ a voting system that wasn’t broken, and that will lead us to election results that we do not trust — to be arbitrated by lawyers. Shakespeare was onto something essential about politics when he has a character in Henry VI say, “First. . . kill all the lawyers.”
