In short: more of the same. And worse. Because that’s what happens when there is no requirement to take responsibility for one’s words and actions. At least in GOP politics we now live in a post-accountability era as much as a post-truth one, in which right and wrong are less important than what you can get away with and who has your back. And it is inevitable that each time someone in politics succeeds at wriggling off of a hook -- one that would put you or me in jail, get us fired from our jobs, and cost us the support of people close to us -- it both enables them to do more of the same and inspires others to go down the same pathway in the race to the bottom of what appears to be a bottomless pit.
We’ve seen this show before. Many times now. It never ends well because, unlike with us, they never suffer consequences. It will be an endless loop of moreofthesameness until enough people leave their tribes and come back to the community. I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen. I’ve been too disappointed in my fellow beings for too long now to hold out any real hope, much less expectation, that their morality somehow will return out of the blue, as if a Hollywood movie ending to a real life shit show.
Re McCarthy, “So what happens now?”.
In short: more of the same. And worse. Because that’s what happens when there is no requirement to take responsibility for one’s words and actions. At least in GOP politics we now live in a post-accountability era as much as a post-truth one, in which right and wrong are less important than what you can get away with and who has your back. And it is inevitable that each time someone in politics succeeds at wriggling off of a hook -- one that would put you or me in jail, get us fired from our jobs, and cost us the support of people close to us -- it both enables them to do more of the same and inspires others to go down the same pathway in the race to the bottom of what appears to be a bottomless pit.
We’ve seen this show before. Many times now. It never ends well because, unlike with us, they never suffer consequences. It will be an endless loop of moreofthesameness until enough people leave their tribes and come back to the community. I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen. I’ve been too disappointed in my fellow beings for too long now to hold out any real hope, much less expectation, that their morality somehow will return out of the blue, as if a Hollywood movie ending to a real life shit show.