Hiccup:
Hillary wins more big states last night.
The longer this thing goes on the less I buy into the notion of an historic race. So far there is nothing surprising in any of this. In every state the sociologically determined Hillary voters have voted for HIllary and the Obama ones have voted for Obama. And considering it’s only a democratic primary meaning dem voters have to vote for one of them, it’s really not all that impressive that neither of them breaks out of those demographics or has been able to pull away.
In my opinion this does not bode well.
As usual the Republicans are getting united behind their guy despite some of the base’s reservations about him. Mccain is building support while the Dem’s are dividing it. I’m not so sure all those white female voters or Hispanics that vote for Hillary are going to turn out for Obama if he gets the nomination. Nor am I certain that black and youth voters being hoarded by Obama will get over their disappointment and turn to hillary.
The fact that this is getting uglier and that more Republican tricks are being brought into play as both get more desperate may only alienate the losers supporters. The candidates and these absolutely moronic pundits that haven’t got half the clue they think they do as they over analyze every stupid utterance that comes from their mouths, can go on about how a continued debate is good for the country. But it’s bullshit.
They are not debating anything real.
Campaigns never debate anything real.
It’s all approved topics and never the underlying systems and beliefs that are put under the microscope. Has anyone asked any of these candidates where they stand on the Chicago School economics philosophy that has so influenced where we are today? No. Instead we get the safer and more innocuous Nafta debate. A debate that will never go anywhere. Obama and Hillary will not change a thing about Nafta. They have no intention to. This is why campaigning is a waste of time and money. Candidates tell the current group they are in front of at that moment what they want to hear. Not what they really believe.
History proves this categorically.
Just as the history of the candidates should be all we need to make a decision.
But we want to be wooed like lovers. Fed sweet words of nothingness that makes us feel like the most important idiot in the world at that moment and repress the reality we know will come when our suitor gets what they want and the blood rushes out of the romance. During a romance we don’t want to talk about anything too real. And these campaigns are no different.
Instead of who can get us out of Iraq in fewer months or years being debated like a contest of Name That Withdrawal why does no one ask how we reconcile the real reasons we went in there with the diminished expectations of the past 5 years? In other words let’s be honest and say we’re in as part of the imperial design of a small group of Republicans (related to those of the Chicago School and Friedmanism that has butcherd South America for decades), and ask how we accept turning those oil profits over and granting autonomy when we are so heavily invested financially after the bazillions we’ve spent there.
Don’t bother asking about the lives lost and what makes that worth it because we know none of them care about the lives lost. An unspoken truth of all political circles is that they believe in acceptable casualties. Pretty much all of them.
Unless it’s their kids.
But it never is, is it?
Not all but many of these circles believe social safety nets are bad because the weak should perish and we need a desperate work force.
But this will never be mentioned on a campaign trail or by a hack on CNN.
THey will never talk about how they believe corruption is the Darwinian proving ground by which the strong and more intent separate themselves from those that hide behind morality to mask a meekness born of no resolve. Many of them believe this. It is one of the ways they rationalize their selfishness. All tyrants and petty scumbags have these rationalizations. You and I have them as well.
Don’t think about it too much.
It is not to be spoken of. Nor questioned. The media is either too stupid in some cases or complicit in others. In the latter they believe the same things. By believing this they think they raise themselves to the levels of the men in power. They believe they have a nuanced understanding of things that most of us uneducated slobs don’t have.
They may be right. But a decision must be made on how to handle knowledge. What to do with it and how to apply it. And whether or not forces of knowledge should be martialled to serve the status quo or push the envelope a bit and make change.
You can guess the answers to these questions most of them have come up with.

And who fits that status quo better than an old white man like John McCain?
John McCain knows how to get things done. John McCain knows how Washington works. John McCain understands how they think. John McCain has been around. John McCain believes in force and war. And America’s economy is built on force and war. John McCain has learned how to play the game and pander to his audience. John McCain has never been more willing to sell a part of himself to be President. John McCain gets it. Even Hillary has basically said McCain is better suited for President than Obama.

The Dude says John McCain for President.

Who fucking really cares anymore?