The pundit curse strikes again.
I woke up wide awake this morning thinking about something both Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Jefferson wrote about - the bellum omnia in omnium - the war of all against all.
Then I recalled I have already written about it...several times.
So here we go again with the Latin stuff.
What follows is a variation on those themes, but the new angle that hit me is the war of all against all is not an event, it is a condition. It is always present. As individuals with different wants, needs and desires - sometimes vastly different - we are always at odds with each other at some level. That is what the Constitution recognizes - the Founders knew that getting everybody on the same page is impossible, so they only focused on the absolute minimum of things where there could be at least general agreement and support.
But even then, there will be differences about how to approach those minimal duties and responsibilities. The founders tried to ameliorate most of that conflict through creating the three branches of government AND splitting Congress into two organizations, one close to the people and the other representative of the states.
Take the Republican party is as an example, we continue to work together until it gets close to election time and then we inevitably begin slicing ourselves into smaller and smaller pieces of pie, deciding why this candidate or organization doesn't match exactly our expectations. All of this is true, there are groups and people out there with whom I don't agree - but many of those don't seem to run or when they do, they can't make it out of the primaries.
But even in a war of all against all, there are winners.
We have all seen a football game where either both teams are evenly matched or equally suck, and the game comes down to one play where one team seems to get everything together just long enough to execute the game plan. It might be one series, or one play, but while nothing works for the entire game for either team, one team gets close enough to kick a field goal or one wideout gets free for a fraction of a second, just enough to catch a pass for a TD.
It happens.
That's how I see how the Democrats have been able to win battles in the bellum omnia in omnium. They seem to get it together just long enough before the clock winds down to score, however they do it, through lies, distortion, electoral shenanigans, whatever it is, they get that one scoring play to work.
Other than that, I have no explanation for the dry husk of a corpse sitting in the Oval Office.
I've also been considering something I have been told, and have told others, and how it fits with our efforts to recover and get America back on a path to Constitutional government and it is this: it is easier to find a job when you already have a job.
That is to say, when you already have employment and are looking for a better career choice, not having the pressure of no paycheck, no healthcare and no way to meet your obligations, it is much easier to be selective about what career choice best fits your wants, needs and desires.
This seems applicable to government, if we can gain control, even if it is not perfect, we can put the brakes on most of the Biden agenda and that makes reforming/eradicating agencies of the federal government possible, and if possible, a little easier.
To put a capstone on it, my proposition is this - the GOP (and just those who see the Biden administration for the abomination it is) must find a way to stick together long enough to run that one scoring play come election time because it is easier to achieve the new state when we are in control of the current state.
Something to think about.
There are no ties in elections, only winners and losers, and in the war of all against all, it often comes down to just one play as the clock ticks to zero.
Wait. What? Elections?
What exactly is an election nowadays?