"the herd is commanded, but prefers to think otherwise at the level of consciousness." f. nietzsche____________________from local to national as i wend my way through he alimentary canal of the leviathan that is american politics i notice a lot of shit...i went to vote after work today ( and no one offered me a damned sticker either...perhaps i telegraphed my viewpoint more than i thought...damn non-verbal communication ) in the library of an aging elementary school where my children began their "education"...in a blue collar town where i have lived for almost thirty years...this town has probably never even been close to good times, much less experienced them...as technology rendered jobs in the steel mills obsolete it was towns like this that suffered first from the economic reconfiguration of the past forty years...that would be irrelevant if american politics weren't so intimate with economics and the prerogatives of wealth...as it stands it's central...so what did i vote for? the common good? politicians like to call what they do "public service" and present themselves as "guardians of the public trust"...placing their political mandate in a higher power than mere politicians... when, in fact, they are creatures of special interests...whether those interests are their own..and here i am thinking of those lonely "independent" voices that have found a way to make their contrarian personalities pay or wealth controlling its political environment...or those of larger, more monied interests...whichever is the case old joe shumpeter was spot on when he said there is no common good in american politics...it is a shiny lie that it trotted out every election day to sway votes in a popularity contest...quickly returned to storage as special interests again take control of the political debate...dispensing wisdom and disguising their cronyism as "the will of the people"...i voted...but i voted with no illusions as to what this farce was all about...give the federalist papers a close reading...hamilton's ideals are alive and well...there may be a break now for the holidays but the new year will bring the debilitating plague of the start of a presidential campaign and with no incumbent every whore in whoretown and quite a few from the provinces beyond will think this could be their time...i can smell the putrescent stench even at this distance...where is the lake of fire?
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