As IF Times

It’s hard to believe that we’re embarking upon yet another bruising election season soon…although you’d be forgiven if you thought the last one was still going on.  The whining and bleating about the results of the last Presidential election held almost 3 years ago still echoes like the screech of vultures circling above picked over carrion.

As shown in the attached graphic,  venerable news outlet CNN just displayed the results of theoretical matchups between the declared Democratic candidates and the presumed opponent Donald Trump. Even hardcore leftists would take this graphic with a barrel of salt…I mean come on, it’s CNN.  In the meantime, many more presidential aspirants are popping up like mushrooms after a rainfall in a swampy forest including the biggest loon bag of all, Bill De Blasio.  At present, there are over 20 declared candidates who genuinely think that there are enough non institutionalized people out there that would subscribe to their version of reality.

The vast majority of the declared candidates are from the states that normally lean heavily Democratic and that’s not really a surprise.  California, New York, Massachusetts are known to be the fonts of unhinged logic and hence the preponderance of spiral eyed politicos emanate from those states. The majority of them are lawyers who have done nothing in their lives but pander to their constituencies with increasingly extreme rhetoric.  None have built a business or endured the hardships of running one.  The one contender that has, Howard Shultz, is shunned by the mainstream Democrats as being a spoiler since he chooses to run as an Independant.

You would think that mass delusion has taken hold of these candidates because there is not the remotest of chances that they would be embraced by any outside of their protected enclaves. To the degree that they’ve even articulated a view for America, those views are as appealing to the values of Americans as a skunk at a picnic.  Unfortunately, that is the source of their genius.  They don’t have to appeal to the majority of Americans.  They need only to corral the votes of those in their populous constituencies, since there may be enough seats there to tip the balance of the houses.  So it’s a about strategy and tactics not about ideology.

Some like De Blasio and Eric Swalwell don’t even try to hide their mental condition since their constituents are like minded as proven by their being voted into office.  Some like Biden have a long history of being useless, but apparently also not a disqualifier. Fortunately as time goes on, the various faults of the candidates will become glaringly obvious under the harsh light of policy revelations…especially since, like the infamous John Kerry,  many of them were for policy ‘X’ before they were against it. As noted, many (and most) aspirants to political office are lawyers.   By definition, lawyers are not beholden to principles since their education and vocation are to argue for their version of truth.  Clearly their value system is not rooted in absolutes but in relativity.

In the dawning years of America, such a notion had been considered when drawing up the basic structure of public governance.  David Dodge, an archival research expert,  discusses this in his research on the missing 13th amendment.  Essentially, the gist of it was that lawyers were to be prohibited from holding public office.  This may have been prescient on the part of the founders way back when, but it seems especially apt today when it appears that a law degree is common as cold sores at a frat party…and as easy to get.

Source: Doctor dragged off United hires two sets of lawyers | Daily Mail Online

Ok, so by now, the misadventures of this United Airlines passenger has caused more people to tsk tsk world wide than the time Hugh Grant was caught cheating on Liz Hurley.  It’s pretty hard to defend the corporate actions of United in this instance since the entire pitiful exchange was videoed by teams of passengers as evidence.

I’m not going to suggest that United handled this situation well, but they also had the misfortune to pick upon a slightly unhinged individual as a removal candidate.  What kind of an educated person, much less a medical doctor, squeals like a snowflake college student when asked to leave a plane?  It’s one thing to be visibly annoyed and stalk off in righteous huff, since he would be entitled, but to flail around and wail as if he was doused in spiders is a tad on the unhinged side.  While the world comes down hard on the airline, what has been  overlooked is that the passenger’s behavior was irrational and  inappropriate to the circumstances.

And the worse part of it is, the guy (and his lawyers) will likely receive a windfall of money from United because the court of public opinion has already vilified and convicted the airline.  What this emotionally unstable person has effected is not just a resounding lesson to United; he has in fact created new economic opportunities for all nutters and those willing to play the role.  The lesson is, act like a child, behave irrationally and play the victim to the max.  All businesses will be at risk from restaurants to barber shops as people go postal on any inconvenience dared to be foisted upon them.  Get a bad haircut or eat some bad clams,  run through a plate glass window and get someone to film you bleeding.  The ambulance chaser business just discovered  a new revenue motherlode.

In this time of extreme sensitivity to any and all slights from all quarters, it’s truly shocking that a company as resource rich as United would  allow themselves to be so exposed to such avoidable litigation.  Now that the floodgates are open, expect the next guy who didn’t receive a bag of nuts to wail like Howard Dean in order to extract compensatory money from the hapless airline.  United have allowed themselves to be a contributor to the lucrative victim industry.  Expect to see teams of lawyers hanging around the departure areas of all future flights.

Update: And here we go