I certainly do not understand this strange strategy of "The Two-Party System, Inc."
Apparently, they seem determined to push one of their two candidates into the Oval Office by sacrificing the other ... and to, above all, utterly polarize the country
against itself so that no citizen stops to observe that
neither candidate is fit to rule the country.
When two people are standing in front of podiums and teleprompters, both with wireless buds in their ears to hear the real-time instructions of their respective "handlers" ... this is not debate. When the media that is "excitedly reporting" on the debate is the recipient of billions of dollars from the people they are supposed to be reporting on (and from the corporations that
appointed them to be candidates in the first place) ... this is not media.
And apparently,
nothing is "brazen" or "titillating" enough for TPS, Inc's apparently-intended target demographic: American
pepperpots.
("Well, I nev-ah ...!") The things that you're supposed to get worked-up over are too-obviously
scripted (such as The Donald first proclaiming himself to be a friend and an admirer of a head-of-state whose government once gave us
Duck and Cover, perhaps so that he could more-or-less quote one of that same man's lines (and attitudes) in last night's political horse-show.
"The Two-Party System, Inc." ... in
both of its cherished "brands," Red and Blue ...
"is the political apparatchik that has systematically demolished, for Gen-X and now for Millennials, virtually all of the social institutions that the "Baby Boomers" once took for granted ... and which the next two deprived generations somewhat
remember. And yet, in this increasingly scatological excuse for "a political campaign," TPS is speaking
only to the Boomers, through a form of media that the succeeding generations
mostly do not use at all.
Billions of dollars in advertising-spending can utterly shut down the Fourth Estate and turn it into your subservient mouth-piece. That's precisely why many countries
(as the US once did ...) prohibit corporate involvement in political campaigns and strictly limit the amount of money that may be spent on them.
There are, however,
four names on the ballot, and the majority bloc of voters today, for the very first time,
is not made up of "Boomers." It's made up of the kids who were made to take on $350,000 in debts to get a piece of vellum that cost
you less than two thousand. The kids who can't go to the hospitals that are being shut down as unprofitable by their for-profit private owners, even as the also-for-profit health insurance
(sic) companies eliminate huge swaths of people from coverage (and hospitals begin to pick-and-choose which insurance plans they will and will not accept.) The list of grievances goes on and on and on, even as "TPS, Inc." shrieks ever-more loudly that one of their two self-appointed candidates
(sic) somehow
must be the winner.
Mind you, TPS
has learned that they can defy the public's vote. Scraps of paper supposedly hanging off of punched-cards caused the popularly-elected candidate, Al Gore, to be dumped in favor of his opponent by a decision of
the Supreme Court, not the House of Representatives as the Constitution proscribes. TPS, Inc.'s response was to institute electronic voting machines that
cannot(!) be audited at all. I'm sure they're quite confident that a "plausible" election result, of-course "electing" one of their corporate-appointed "candidates," will be "accepted" by the public. But I am not so sure.
The real lesson of "the Parable of the Prodigal Son" is that a person (or, a nation) can be increasingly self-destructive, right up to the point where he's staring-down a hungry pig who is quite capable of killing him ... until ... until ... he simply
stops, and instead chooses to do what he always could have done at any time before. "Multi-Nationalism" is a perverse political philosophy that plays every nation against every other in a race to the bottom that is in the interests of no one. Britain rejected it this year. America may well be the next to follow suit.
