Tragic Waste

“More, and harder.”

And, after all, how were the Clinton years anything but an extension of Bush I? While Bush II’s policies - expanding war, the USA PATRIOT Act (HR 666 recycled!), burgeoning wealth transfers to the power elite - were nothing Clinton hadn’t done or tried to do. And Obama has made it clear “change” means “the same, only more and harder.”

He’s blatantly planning a massive expansion of US military assaults on the rest of the world. There’s no money for this. The military is broken. It doesn’t matter: this “administration” - or what we probably should call the power elite’s new management team - is no more reality-based than the one about to be flushed.

Clearly, The O-Bomber’s a stooge; clearly, the same people pull his strings as did the two Bushes and Bush Sr.’s smarter, adoptive son Slick Willie. And who’d've pulled McCain’s if voters had decided to elect an overtly mad, evil old reptile instead of a handsome young demagogue (with a Nuremberg Rally-friendly constituency!)

Meanwhile the Mad Christers who wanted to set the world ablaze so the demon they imagine is Jesus could return to assert dominion are on their way out - well, except for right-wing fundie Hillary Clinton, who belongs to the Mad Christer DC insider group called the Fellowship. (See also here.) But bizarrely the secularist nuts who were equally responsible for executing the mad US-vs-the-World program are still firmly entrenched.

After all, how did Clinton’s overtly fascist “neoliberals” differ from Dumbya’s overtly fascist “neocons? ” Barely if at all, in rhetoric or policy. Just the switching-in of meaningless syllables: “conservative” for “liberal.” And now back.

Of course the same people are still in charge. At the top, as well as in the lower, public ranks. People who possess real power may lose it through accident, incompetence, or action by their rivals. They do not suffer themselves to be displaced by majority vote of their livestock. Why in Hell should they? In what way is it rational to imagine that they would?

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So the actual polling booths have opened. The lambs crowd down the chute toward their rendezvous with a plate and some mint jelly.

Here’s a safe prediction:  by tomorrow a devout fascist will have been elected president.

Because that’s all that’s running. Of the two who have a chance, anyway.

Much may be made of election shenanigans: “rigged” votes, “stolen” votes. No doubt they’ll happen; and no doubt fraudulent accusations will be made. It’s crooks squabbling over the proceeds of crime. What different should we expect?

The national elections are a lot like the World Series:  there’s vast money and perqs riding on the outcome, serious enough that people will kill and die over it; and you have no influence over the outcome, and the outcome means nothing practical for you.

Of course the elections are rigged. Long before the herd gets allowed to make its hoofmarks on ballots. Because by the time a candidate is anointed by one of the allegedly distinct parties, they’ve already been thoroughly vetted by the people who really rule us, whoever they may be. It literally doesn’t matter to them who gets elected.

Either way, they win.

Guess who loses.

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