Post by Webster on Apr 8, 2024 19:29:41 GMT -5
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Fixing What Ails Us-Read more: hughhewitt.com/losing-our-humanity
WED, APR 3, 2024 | BY JOHN SCHROEDER
-The Republican bare-majority in the House just barely functions, and often does not function at all. The latest evidence in Rep. Greene’s motion to vacate Speaker Johnson just months after vacating Speaker McCarthy. National Review went after it tooth-and-nail, and it appears at the moment that the motion has no traction. The analysis of what is going on is very, very complicated, but if I had to sum it up the fundamental fracture in the party, it is between those that want to do what we can do, even if it is less than satisfactory and those that want to shove it down the throats of Democrats – regardless of what comes out the other end. I have sympathies for both sides of this fracture. The policies of the pandemic were sufficient to create a fight-or-flight response. The totalitarian impulses exercised in many places (and that I personally experienced in California) were the stuff of nightmares. But, at the same time those policies are subsiding, and the normal state of politics demands compromise. Ultimately, what is to be remembered is that both sides of this inside-the-party divide are very representative of a segment of the American people.
In the short term, Speaker Johnson has a heck of a problem on his hands managing a majority this fractious. But this will never be solved until the general public settles down, which is not easy when the liberals keep baiting us with issues like what transpired this Easter Sunday just past. There are a lot of ways to affect the mood of the general public. Media is certainly not helping as they make more money from conflict than from compromise. But there has to be a better way.
If you are young and looking “to make a difference in the world,” may I suggest you look somewhere besides politics. Fix the people and you will fix the politics. Let’s focus on fixing the people. Go to work at a 501(3)(c), most especially a church. Or better, just get a job, be good at the job and be a good person being good at the job. Stop making a cause out of everything and just be a good person.
Good people fix things, good politics simply follow in their wake.
-The Republican bare-majority in the House just barely functions, and often does not function at all. The latest evidence in Rep. Greene’s motion to vacate Speaker Johnson just months after vacating Speaker McCarthy. National Review went after it tooth-and-nail, and it appears at the moment that the motion has no traction. The analysis of what is going on is very, very complicated, but if I had to sum it up the fundamental fracture in the party, it is between those that want to do what we can do, even if it is less than satisfactory and those that want to shove it down the throats of Democrats – regardless of what comes out the other end. I have sympathies for both sides of this fracture. The policies of the pandemic were sufficient to create a fight-or-flight response. The totalitarian impulses exercised in many places (and that I personally experienced in California) were the stuff of nightmares. But, at the same time those policies are subsiding, and the normal state of politics demands compromise. Ultimately, what is to be remembered is that both sides of this inside-the-party divide are very representative of a segment of the American people.
In the short term, Speaker Johnson has a heck of a problem on his hands managing a majority this fractious. But this will never be solved until the general public settles down, which is not easy when the liberals keep baiting us with issues like what transpired this Easter Sunday just past. There are a lot of ways to affect the mood of the general public. Media is certainly not helping as they make more money from conflict than from compromise. But there has to be a better way.
If you are young and looking “to make a difference in the world,” may I suggest you look somewhere besides politics. Fix the people and you will fix the politics. Let’s focus on fixing the people. Go to work at a 501(3)(c), most especially a church. Or better, just get a job, be good at the job and be a good person being good at the job. Stop making a cause out of everything and just be a good person.
Good people fix things, good politics simply follow in their wake.