No matter how hard voters wish for it, America’s problems aren’t going to be solved from the top, by the president, or whoever pulls the president’s strings. From Edward Curtin at off-guardian.org:
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”
Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh
Voters in the USA live in fantasy and probably always will. No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years.
It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.
An analogy is apropos. In the small town and vicinity where I live, there are about 10 pot shops where pipe dreams are dispensed. As The Platters sang long ago, “when your heart’s on fire, you must realize smoke gets in your eyes.” But few realize it.
Smoke? What smoke?
Quadrennially, this love affair with the presidential candidates burns hot and heavy despite their records, as if they were heart throbs of stage and screen, straight from Broadway or Hollywood deeply concerned for the public’s welfare.
Never won a primary to America’s sweetheart in two weeks?
The stupidest society in human history begging to be put out of misery?
Timmeh gonna get me a pony and a Blue Falcon keychain while Kamalacackle is going to make me have joyful good feelz!
Si se puede.
This just in from Werner Herzog:
Beam me up, Elon. (X/s)
BTW-The historic cackles is in charge of the program that has the astronauts left in space.
Breaking from Löckheed:
Catastrophe (Delerium EP)