Blago Must Go

The Illinois Mess continues to expand- Democrats are unleashing a chorus of 'get the heck outta here' to Blagojevich- Reid doesn't want him to make the appointment, Obama wants him to resign. Everyone wants this guy gone- and fast.

This is just another example of the fatal systemic flaw that is becoming increasingly obvious to me as time goes by. When the chips are down, our system is paralyzed (witness the two tries it took to get a bailout passed) and our political class has become a separate entity in and of itself, playing by its own rules and regulations and living to enrich itself. And when a political class exists solely for its own enrichment and guards its turf, it's a fatal flaw that will eventually undermine the system.

The maddening thing though, is that the system is impossible to change. You have to play by the rules or you don't get anywhere and once you play by their rules, you become part of the system you wish to change. Unlike Greece, (see the last post) there's no cultural tradition of taking to the streets and demanding change. Not a flippin' thing we can do about it, in other words. We just have to wait until the cancer spreads far enough to be fatal and bring down the system. And by then, it'll be too late for the worst of our leaders, but it'll also be too late for the country as a whole.

And again, there's no method for house cleaning here. No one can say it, but we cannot even ask if, after two centuries, the system is even working anymore. The Constitution has no room for evolution in it- it has methods for changing it, but no honest-to-God way of actual systemic change. Which is what we might need.

So what to do? A Third Party? It'd be nice, but a long shot. Take to the hills? Yeah, and have people laugh at you. Or just sit there and watch the cancer spread further and further into the body politic- until- boom. Down it all falls.

Sadly, I think option 3 is probably the most likely option.