Why McCain will be our next President and why that makes me mad.
I don’t post much in the way of politics on this blog, but I’m infuriated at the idiocy of “the system” here in the US.
I’m taking a break from reading the new Ron Paul book to post this, and it’s just incredible the difference between his positions and those of the current nominees.
I have to say now what I said back in 2004.. What are the democratic party thinking???
Put it this way. We have a country thoroughly dissatisfied with the Republican party, and what are the Dems putting up in response?
Either someone who a lot of people won’t vote for because she’s a woman, or someone that a lot of people won’t vote for because he’s black.
Go figure.
This is a NUMBERS game. The re-election of Bush in 2004 showed that. The majority of US voters don’t make educated voting decisions, and the media make no attempt to educate them about meaningful issues.
The person who wins a US election is the person that attracts the most sheep. The person who on face value ( because it doesn’t go deeper than that ) that the majority of the voting pool sees as somewhat like them. The person whose BS and rhetoric gels with the BS and rhetoric of the average uninformed citizen.
Sorry - that’s not a black guy, or a woman. It’s a old white guy whose sound bites carry sufficient charm to gloss over the fact that he hasn’t the slightest idea about global economics, and thinks that war is really cool.
It’s the old white guy who ticks all the boxes:
- Goes to church ( even though he’s endorsed by an Evangelical nutter )
- Is a war hero who suffered torture (even though he thinks that torturous sanctions against foreign nations is a pretty cool thing )
- Is white
- Seems like he knows what he is talking about ( which is ludicrous )
- Has an ‘I’m just like you’ air ( and he is if your wife is worth $100,000,000 and your friends are all Washington lobbyists )
Bottom line, I said it in 2004, and I’ll probably say it again, this country that I’ve chosen to live in is great - but I’m tired of dumbass people voting for dumb ass presidents who make dumbass decisions that are not reigned in by a bunch of dumbass congressmen that are more concerned about scoring points that looking after the interests the the people they are supposed to be protecting.
So, Mr and Mrs Average American. This is what you want?
Well if you find yourself unable to put gas in your car, to go buy a $6 loaf of bread because there’s no food in the house you are now renting from your bank, here’s the good news.. Voting for the black guy, or the white woman really wouldn’t have made that much difference anyway.
Although I’ve chosen to live here, and will continue to do so for the next few years, it’s a great relief that I have the choice to leave. I can take my family, get on a plane and live anywhere I want in Europe on either of my European passports.
It’s just a great concern to me the number of people who at that point will be sitting around in the US wondering what went wrong, and trying to work out who they can blame for it.
