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.