Regarding the "Federal shutdown"

An "off point" post. I am posting this comment because i think it describes something worth study, and that illustrates a change that may affect many areas.

A historical curiosity from 09/30/2013:

 

The reason used by a political party in control of the one branch of Congress, to force a government shutdown; is the demand to repeal a bill already passed and made law, that was based upon a state law created by a governor who is a member of their own party, that they ran for president in the last election.
This is a fundamental change from when I was a sprout, both as to national politics, and the attention span of the electorate.

Lets look back to when i was a sprout, the different political climate.
Lets say, 1966. A hypothetical.

President Johnson (D) proposes a health care reform law, modelled after the law that has been in force for a couple years in Michigan, that was championed by its governor, Geoge Romney (R) (yes mitt's dad).
There would have been debate, changes, etc., but it probably would pass with bipartisan support.
The political characterisation of that by the Republicans? It would have been something like, " the President and his party are so lacking in their own ideas, they have to take Republican ones."

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts, and return your trays to a full, upright position. The traditional boundaries of subject and reasoning in the U.S. political system have been blown out.

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)