American politics reduced to Chinese opera.

To understand the title for this post you have to have seen actual Chinese opera on the streets. Actors dressed in outlandish costumes speak in an odd sing song voice and drums. wooden sticks, and bells sound after every third sentence. Such is my memory of them in the Republic of China of the 1960s. The locals seemed to enjoy this. I never bothered to look into it so I can't say what legends and tales were presented. Regardless, the manner of performing itself was not intriguing to one more attuned to the Sergeant Friday cut-to-the-chase, just-the-facts,-ma'am approach to life.

There's more to it, of course, otherwise it wouldn't have endured for centuries but for this long-nosed foreign devil I'd rather watch a movie about Wakanda.

Still, there's no gainsaying that our politics is right up there with the Chinese opera that I recall. It has meaning to the locals in the District of the Disturbed but to me (1) it's all theater of the worst kind and (2) it exists but to hide eight of the worst betrayals of our people:

1. pouring money down the drain of black uplift,
2. pandering to sexual deviancy and confusion,
3. off-shoring of tens of thousands of our factories,
4. mass third-world immigration (including huge numbers of Muslims),
5. monetary, fiscal, and debt madness,
6. groveling before Israel,
7. pointless, reckless, ruinous war and political meddling, and
8. the ever-popular evisceration of our constitutional republic.

These eight betrayals are, however, the sacred objectives of our nation-destroying elites and yet it's as much as your career, family, or life are worth to dare to mention this. But hat's off to Brandon Smith in shining the spotlight on this one facet of our "political process":

The problem of U.S. dependency on Chinese manufacturing has been mentioned during the campaign, but merely in passing. No serious plan to bring production back to the U.S. has been presented by either side, and this seems to be the predictable narrative of every election for the past 12 years: Use buzzwords on the economy to pretend as if candidates care while never offering a practical plan for solving the underlying problems.

. . . The very root of the U.S. financial system (and the global financial system) is rotten, and NOTHING is being done about it by either political party.^[1]

I think Nicholas Cage had a meltdown in that great movie "Honeymoon in Vegas" where Ben Stein is droning on at the airline ticket counter about his flight and Cage is all kinds of antsy wanting to get on the plane to reach his lady back in Vegas. Great scene.

That's about where I am these days. We'll see if the rest of the country is on the verge of an epic WTF moment. If not, get set for the Flying Elvises, weekend spirit cooking soirees, Santeria chicken slaughtering, and cousin marriage and FGM out the wazoo.

Read Smith's entire piece, btw. It's excellent.

Notes
^[1] "The One Assured Outcome Of The Election." By Brandon Smith, ZeroHedge, 10/10/20 (emphasis removed).