Comments: Ol' Remus has a few words for you: "Long time readers know my opinion of national politics.
Commenter *ghost* here has this figured out quite accurately. I am now a firm believer as well.
Posted by Terry at June 23, 2016 12:50 PM
Yeah okay. I've read ghost, and he's not wrong. But on the way out it doesn't do any harm to vote against Democrats just on general principles.
Posted by thesixthmoon at June 23, 2016 8:33 PM
That's certainly the case. Never lose a chance to put them down.
Posted by Van der Leun at June 24, 2016 7:30 AM
Voting against them is a statement, although I don't know how strong the statement might be.
I prefer to lean toward Jerry Clower who, in one of his stories regarding a hand to hand brawl with a coon in the top of a tree, told his buddies on the ground: "Just shoot up here amongst us...someone's gotta have relief".
On that note, just shooting into a wad of politicians doesn't seem like a terrible idea.
I just hope that those who screen all of these comments don't think that I have ill intent toward politicians. I do of course but I imagine that they do too. lol.
Posted by Jack at June 24, 2016 7:40 AM
From my post in February, "Lying down with dogs and Marxists holding elections"
Way back in 1980 a Marxist writer explained how elections work - and are supposed to work - in a bourgeoisie country (and the USA is definitely that). After delineating the tedium and manufactured excitement of the primaries and delegate counting and national political conventions and all the rest of American politics, writer Paul Saba explains how the elections were "Reaffirming the Marxist Theory of the State":
What is the purpose of this elaborate extravaganza? Marxists have long noted that insofar as its stated purpose is concerned–determining the question of political power in modern society–it is no more than a charade, a political sleight of hand in which the more things seem to change, the more do they remain the same. But Marxists do not deserve any special credit for making such an observation. One hardly has to be a Marxist to grasp the fact that bourgeois elections do not, in any way, impinge upon or alter questions of power. The general cynicism among the masses toward politics and politicians–a cynicism which runs far deeper than can be measured solely by noting the large numbers of people who do not bother to vote in elections–is itself proof that the futility and corruption of bourgeois politics has become a part of U.S. folklore.
In Marxist theory the whole point of elections is to give the proles the illusion that they have a say in the outcome and how the country is run. But they don't and they shouldn't.
And that is the governing philosophy of our Political Class.
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