the View from Below

    If you have tried to find a way out of the mess, one first has to stop and tell you that it is, in fact, a mess, and perhaps lecture you about its history as well as its contemporary political scene, where the people have divided over whether to keep the mess or rather to overthrow it and set up a new mess.  Once that has been established, then one must justify one’s position on the mess by regurgitating without claiming that what you are putting forth is regurgitated drivel about your commitment to make the mess great again. Of course, once you have done that, others have marched overnight on your mess and have destroyed what you have worked on.