Robot Jazz

  In my last blog post, I pointed out that politics, in a functioning democracy, is not immune to Newton's Third Law: it is subject to an equal and opposite reaction from the opposing political side. What is more, I warned that when politicians fail to come to grips with that axiomatic principle, upheaval can result.  I also demonstrated that the rise of the socialist and progressive left is happening precisely because the leadership of the Democratic Party has not grasped this basic concept and is repeating the mistakes of the pre-2016 Republican leadership, something that led to the GOP being devoured by Trump and his MAGA minions.   Well, before the electrons on that post even had a chance to, er, dry, Hakeem Jeffries — the putative future Speaker of the House — demonstrated that he is one of those leaders who still hasn’t grasped this basic principle of political physics. As the New Zork Times reported: Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and t...

  "Whenever one object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first." - Sir Isaac Newton Politics is not immune to physics, as much as it pains me to admit as a former liberal arts major.  Specifically, politics is just as beholden to Newton's Third Law of Motion, as quoted above, as is any planetoid drifting through the zero-G void of space.   And this is why America is seeing a surge of renewed enthusiasm for both progressivism and socialism. The natural predator of fascism is socialism. They are the matter-antimatter dynamic of political extremes. One will always oppose the other, and when the two come into conflict, explosions can result, as seen in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. The same dynamic is now occurring in the United States of America, as the predatory Trump regime exhibits aspects of both predatory capitalism and fascism. As Americans face rising food prices, fuel costs, and utility rat...