Four Year Waiting Period

As I became more astute to the sludgy, frightening, dark realities of the Political Arena, I find the feelings that surface to be the most dis-trustworthy. Most importantly, while all other forms of intellectual thought in our country are being thrown out the window, wholesale, the power vacum in the process remains. The feeling when their ideal choice of candidate is not elected, or the candidate for whom you have volunteered for, does not achieve victory that sense of being down for the count for four more years.

There is a lot of footage surfacing of President Bill Clinton and his campaign in 1992. Looking upon it and looking at how he ran his campaigns, how Gore ran his campaigns, and how Hillary Clinton is running her campaign, it is quite evident that the concessions come from those who seek true change from being Down for the Count.

The count is for those who follow politics closely, who are fascinated with power and want their hand in the cookie jar of power. Naughty, Naughty, don't these people know that power corrupts? They should be coaxed away from it, after all these people just will not understand that power and money are linked so intimately and will ruin the delicate balance of a lifestyle with power and money. They are also to be cursed, for not putting themselves up for sale like any smart, decent American.

This ideology, no surprise, has "trickled down" to just about every level of our society. From high school elections, Rotary clubs, just about every social activity that requires some form of governance. The school yard mentality hangs over it, with new tennis shoes and a stern warning not to ruin other people's fairy tales, guarding heavily  the notion that naughty little changlings should not try to tip the delicate balance that has been so fruitful. The truth is lurking in the mix where "real power" , is propelling the status quo to swinish heights beyond wildest dreams of even the greediest people. 

When dead people are voting, and yes I will bet that chads are  still hanging and ruffians are suddenly volunteering on  election day, being down for the count has a whole new meaning.  It is like that sense of thirst that comes after an early morning softball game. It is a shared feeling between the winners and the losers, when the winner cheats, knowing full well that the truth needs to be forgotten by both sides.

What does not kill you only makes you stronger? That's been the adage of the hijackers of this country for over 40 years.  It is a sense of well being associated with the criminality pervasive all around. We are supposed to grin and bear it and feign intellectual conversation, but leave room for the corrupt to bombast their opinion as strongmen, where might makes right, as any good provincial thinker will concur.

When rigging occurs, when media spins out any prospect of positive change, when money poo poo real anger in this countries, the direness of the situation comes out. Politics and economics are liked very closely. Economics and Politics are not, but have been spun naturally so, to a point where we assume one does not exist with out the other. Economics and Culture, however is the roller coaster of life, and that is thrown into the mix to, causing aggravation, and dissenting opinions leading to hate.  Having weaseled their way into all three aspects, they have managed to win that feeling, this time, even before the general election takes place. They have spent their time planning for this, because for them it is the only thing that matters, and they will not give it up come hell or high water. Then again, that is a lesson for school chumps.

Just Wait Till Football Season

It is a dormant period now in the political arena. Hillary appears to be winning handily over Trump, and a foregone conclusion is that things are on the right track. Of course, we should believe that the Clinton's will have their hand back in the cookie jar, but bring good things to us, right? Yet with the onslaught of red-blooded savage beatings coming with football season, the uproar of the Trump base will be quickly riled up. Imagine the concoction of football and Trump reigning down upon the millions of unemployed males ages 18-42. They will have something to fight for and believe in, and it will get them through their week with a sense of pride and optimism.

No longer will the college educated males look down upon them with pity, as they cling to their jobs with a combination of wit and viciousness unseen in the last two millienia. In fact many of them will be tempted to join the crowd of Trump supporters and lean back into what they originally were fooled into supporting. It took months and month of propaganda like social media campaigns just to win them back.

It is poetic. A Billionaire, hijacking the party, turning against for what has catered to the likes of his kind. Biting the hand that feeds him, and hijacking the hijackers. Trump took their party away from them, and fractured the arena that they have laid siege to for decades. Meanwhile every concerned, and spin savvy citizen is screaming bloody murder, and hailing never Trump. It is a new politics of an up and coming generation, vying for legitimacy, power, and respect.

Football is very central to this generation and should not be discounted as a mere seasonal joyous occasion. It could very well lead to a red blooded surge, with girlfriends, and female followers in tow. The hope is that the better senses will get a hold of the masses and keep them from voting with passion. In any event the alternative is not much better.

Which brings me to the central tenant of the campaign, Crookedness. This is not a light term to be thrown about. Mostly because power is at stake and we all know what power does.(see previous sentence if you do not) Hillary will create an undertone of a notion that it is ok to be a little crooked. Hell, anyone who's anybody has had a little power and is crooked. That is the fatal error, the one that will allow the agenda to be skewed in the favor of the moneyed interest who are already turning fate toward themselves. They have emergency caves for situation such as these, where massive hysteria can lead to a huge demand for the truth. They will bury the truth, by utilizing yet another one of their assets. This time it will take the shape of returning to "work" and going back to business as usual. You will see it in  football season, you will see it in the media, and most importantly you will see it in your relationships with people all around you. You will assume that it the right course of how things should be, you will be wrong.

It is the seal for that economic tradeoff that has seeped into our countries deep sense of political liberty. It is the difference between safety and security and freedom. Playing it safe on the football field yield rewards, playing it safe in the political arena upsets the herd.  After all, what we get from the media is spoon fed nonsense , and their goal is to make us accept these facts hook, line and sinker. Then we can go about our business as if it was our own, not knowing of course that we just checked it away.

Election day is coming soon, and the excitement of politics has been deflated. Perhaps that is good thing, because for once we can take a look at what is really happening and root out the corrupt forces and make them bend to our will. The only question is, will our pride, passion, and our inability to accept wrongdoing get the better of us?