David CookTwenty years from now, we will look back at this type of hostage-taking, shutdown politics as the first step in which such political cannibalism became normal.
Today, of course, we are aghast, angry and impatient at the gross abnormality of it all. Yet time will pass, and what was once seen as obscene will one day be ordinary and uneventful. Today’s shutdown will be tomorrow’s back page news.
Because no one will prescribe any correction to prevent this from happening over and over and over.
Because no correction exists, here in the United States of the Extreme.
We may be the most dichotomous country on Earth. Our highs are nose-bleed high and our lows are so very low; like an hourglass, we populate either end, with little room in the middle for the things that matter most.