The Liz Cheney Maxim.

This blog has a gigantic number of "Labels" which appear off to the left, all reflecting categorized topics.  It's probably too many, but then this blog covers a lot of topics (even though that wasn't originally intended).

Some of the topics are maxims of one kind or another, reflecting the topic they are on.

Today we add a new one, The Liz Cheney Maxim.

This comes from this entry of yesterdays' date.

Lex Anteinternet: The 2024 Election, Part V. Wooing the primary voters.:   June 29, 2023 Posted today only because at this point I need to update the list of candidates.  As time has gone on, I've omitted a fe...

Here is what former Congressman Cheney stated:

Look, I think that the country right now faces hugely challenging and fundamentally important issues. And what we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots. And so, I don’t look at it through the lens of, is this what I should do or what I shouldn’t do. I look at it through the lens of, how do we elect serious people? And I think electing serious people can’t be partisan.

You know, because of the situation that we’re in, where we have a major-party candidate who’s trying to unravel our democracy — and I don’t say that lightly — we have to think about, all right, what kinds of alliances are necessary to defeat him, and those are the alliances we’ve got to build across party lines.

Idiot comes from the Greek word ἰδιώτης, the etymology of which is:

Middle English (denoting a person of low intelligence): via Old French from Latin idiota ‘ignorant person’, from Greek idiōtēs ‘private person, layman, ignorant person’, from idios ‘own, private’.

Obviously, the meaning has changed over the years, but the evolution reflects an idiot being a person who is too self-involved to get a clue.   And there's certainly a lot of that going around in the United States of the 2020s.