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as america breathlessly awaits the results of tomorrow's crucial election
will the red team take the house? will the blue team hold the senate?
i just sit back, shake my head and take another swig of vodka.
it's sorta the same feeling i had back in august of 20002008 when i watched the redblue team jubilantly anoint its chosen one in philadelphiadenver and realized, "holy shit, this idiot's gonna be our next president."
and as america's deterioration continues under his watch, the current idiot is furiously traversing the country stumping for his team's candidates--when, if he asked me, i'd tell him what he should be doing is rooting for the red team's victory tomorrow, so that
when the shit really hits the fan over the next couple years, thanks to the combined incompetence, criminal malfeasance and neglect of both teams
he can conveniently blame the other team's obstruction of his policies for the coming catastrophe, thus assuring his team's re-ascendancy in 2012.
it's all so stupid, really. nobody in american politics ever thinks more than one move ahead--it's all about the next election.
right now, the red team's effectively doing everything it can to set itself up to be the fall-guy for the next leg down, and the blue team's doing everything it can to resist them.
it's all so stupid, really. nobody in american politics ever thinks more than one move ahead--it's all about the next election.
right now, the red team's effectively doing everything it can to set itself up to be the fall-guy for the next leg down, and the blue team's doing everything it can to resist them.
they don't see it that way, of course; it's all about the moment.
tomorrow night the red team will exult in its victory, convinced that they've just saved the country--you know, just like the blue team did two years ago.
tomorrow night the red team will exult in its victory, convinced that they've just saved the country--you know, just like the blue team did two years ago.
one of these days, the country's gonna wake up and realize that while we were squabbling over such red team-blue team distractions as abortion, gay marriage and the "war on terror," the bankers made off with all the money, and the chinese with all the oil.
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look, folks, you can pull for whatever team you want--knock yourselves out. i just wish more of you understood that the people who really pull the strings in america couldn't care less whether you wear a red shirt or a blue shirt
just so long as you keep the blinders on.
4 comments:
You've got to be kidding me. Do you not think there is any difference between Obama and Bush? On a host of issues, there is a very big difference. People who do not think there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats either aren't paying attention or are just plain stupid.
Yet, there is something here, guttermorality. And that is that neither party is really addressing the issues of American decline and global competition. As a result, the United States continues to lose its competitive edge.
Hmmm...that's the thesis from Thomas Friedman's book, "The World is Flat."
noblesavage: ah, you miss my point once more.
the point is, whatever differences exist between the red and blue teams pale in comparison to their singular similarity: namely, the fact that they both owe their allegiance not to the electorate, but to the bankers and corporations who finance their increasingly-expensive campaigns, and whose minions and lobbyists now dictate our policies and write our laws.
that's why, other than satisfying grudges against various politicians whom i particularly revile, i'm pretty much indifferent to which team wins the day. it really doesn't matter anymore.
I understand your point. It is not a unique position.
But, with the rise of internet fund raising, there is more money in politics, but a lot of it is coming from smaller checks written by individuals....or more likely credit card payments off the internet.
You can now donate to pretty much any Congressional campaign in the United States in a matter of a few minutes online.
One other point is that Obama got a lot of money from Wall Street. That did not stop him from passing financial reform. If you talk to a lot of Wall Street types now, they are disenchanted with Obama right now, thinking of him as anti-business -- in fact, I seem to recall that was a post of yours how a trillion dollars is sitting on the sidelines because business does not want to invest given the uncertainty.
That would seem to indicate the elections matter.
Is the United States going to face radical change if the red team takes over? No. But significant change does and will happen.
noblesavage: the fact that my position isn't unique doesn't make it any less true.
and unless you're a tea-party candidate, public funding of elections is quickly becoming a thing of the past--they're just too expensive now [call it the "election bubble"].
and finally: good god, rob--obama's financial "reform" bill is a fuckin' joke. the TBTF's shoulda been broken up, and glass-steagall shoulda been reinstated, at the very least. instead, wall street basically got to write its own bill--the market actually went up after its signature into law, because the crooks knew it wasn't gonna cost 'em anything.
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