“Nothing Good Can Come of This Election”–and That’s Good

We the citizens and voters have to stop being enablers of systemic corruption. The overwhelming consensus of the punditry across the political spectrum is that “Nothing Good Can Come of This Election”–and that’s a very good thing. The handwringing goes like this: The country is deeply divided by schisms that cannot be bridged, every institution from the two parties to the mainstream media to the Department of Justice has been tarnished by cover-ups, collusion or worse; whomever wins the election will enter the presidency without a mandate, and so on. Why is “nothing good can come of this” good? Because ridding the nation of its political corruption will require hitting bottom. Just as an alcoholic or drug addict is incapable of making any truly positive changes until he/she hits absolute bottom, so it is with our tolerance of a corrupt political system that is poisoning the nation, one injection of corrupt cash, collusion and pay-to-play at a time. If our rotten-to-the-core politics as usual is indeed flying off the cliff to complete destruction, that is an unalloyed good.

This post was published at Charles Hugh Smith on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 03, 2016.