Base10Blog: An Op-Ed from the Journal

Thursday, June 01, 2006

An Op-Ed from the Journal
The always interesting Peggy Noonan is suggesting that America may be ready for a third party. (Republican incumbents be very afraid when conservative pundits start talking this way!) Noonan argues that the great divide in American politics is not the polarization between Democrats and Republicans but between ruling elites and the people who elected them:

The problem is not that the two parties are polarized. In many ways they're closer than ever. The problem is that the parties in Washington, and the people on the ground in America, are polarized. There is an increasing and profound distance between the rulers of both parties and the people--between the elites and the grunts, between those in power and those who put them there.
On the ground in America, people worry terribly--really, there are people who actually worry about it every day--about endless, weird, gushing government spending. But in Washington, those in power--Republicans and Democrats--stand arm in arm as they spend and spend. (Part of the reason is that they think they can buy off your unhappiness one way or another. After all, it's worked in the past. A hunch: It's not going to work forever or much longer. They've really run that trick into the ground.)

On the ground in America, regular people worry about the changes wrought by the biggest wave of immigration in our history, much of it illegal and therefore wholly connected to the needs of the immigrant and wholly unconnected to the agreed-upon needs of our nation. Americans worry about the myriad implications of the collapse of the American border. But Washington doesn't. Democrat Ted Kennedy and Republican George W. Bush see things pretty much eye to eye. They are going to educate the American people out of their low concerns.

There is a widespread sense in America--a conviction, actually--that we are not safe in the age of terror. That the port, the local power plant, even the local school, are not protected. Is Washington worried about this? Not so you'd notice. They're only worried about seeming unconcerned.

I don't agree with Ms. Noonan on everything. For one, I think we need some sort of guestworker program and that this country should not be afraid of an immigration wave. But she does have something here. People are fed up, but it is not directed only at the ruling Republicans. One quote doesn't do the article justice, read the whole thing.
- posted by Base10 @ 10:10 AM

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