While people on the left love to
talk and bitch about Republicans stealing elections, what should worry people is
how a candidate can buy the presidency, because they have conned millions of
people to donate money while at the same time using those smaller campaign
contributions to block the truth that a huge fraction of all the money has come
from the same corporate, business and wealthy fat cats that have always funded
both Republicans and Democrats.
This ensures that Obama will never, ever take any action to remove the
tyranny of the status quo two-party plutocracy.
It certainly helps that John
McCain does not deserve the vote of any halfway intelligent person. Indeed, this election is like a national
IQ test. There will surely be tens
of millions of voters that go for McCain.
They are overwhelmingly the least smart, least informed, and most
delusional Americans that have actually fallen for McCain’s lies, distortions,
terrible judgments, and imbecilic arguments.
This was the year that Americans
should have overwhelmingly seen that BOTH Democrats and Republicans have brought
this once great nation to its knees and rejected BOTH major candidates. But, alas, I fear that third-party
presidential candidates will end up getting just about what they have always
received: no nationally significant percentage of votes.
In this delusional democracy
voters overwhelmingly delude themselves about whoever they vote for, except
those that have the courage and true patriotism to vote their conscience and
vote against the two-party plutocracy.
Worst of all are those who consider themselves “progressives” but who
will enthusiastically, once again, go the lesser-evil, delusional route and
eagerly vote for Obama. When Obama
fails to keep nearly all of his campaign promises and fills the Executive Branch
with crowds of loyal Democrats (not true independent thinking progressives that
are not registered Democrats) all those Obamatons will probably keep deluding
themselves and come up with rationalizations why Obama had no other choice. And they will keep fantasizing that
eventually Obama will show himself to be the political messiah that they think
he is.
All that will be proven with the
Obama presidency is that you can have a very intelligent person in the White
House and not just an idiot like George W. Bush who ends up preserving and
encouraging the two-party plutocracy that keeps the Upper Class and corporate
state safe from attack while letting the middle class continue to slide down
into a larger Lower Class. I would
rather have had the first truly independent president elected than the first
African-American one, someone like Ralph Nader.
[Contact Joel S. Hirschhorn
through www.delusionaldemocracy.com.]