the sight of "conservative" candidates as they court the yahoo vote and its money and a quick glance at the calendar tells me the awful, sickening descent into the foul presidential year of 2016 has already begun...i am a registered voter and i am inclined to make it to the polls at every opportunity ( there is a doozy of an off-year mayoral election coming up in my home town this year...a sort of dysfunctional warm-up...fine tuning the neuroreceptors to "bullshit" and bringing the loathing up to a fever pitch...there will probably be more on that in the next few months ) but that doesn't mean i believe the "interests of the people" are at the heart of the campaigns ( depending , of course, on how you define "the people"...i am inclined to believe that the elite sees themselves AS the nation so anything inimical to their interests is inimical to the national interest...but i am on the same page as gramsci ) so...in an all iww graphic post, let me say that there isn't anything new in the perception that politics is controlled by money or that the "political class" isn't anything more than a gaggle of hired whores...that goes back beyond the iww to 1789...washington was the first president because he was the richest guy in the country and madison, jay , and that "damned ass" hamilton were determined to squelch the political will of the mass with the counter-revolution they called the constitution..i would direct your attention to the journals of old bill maclay and to a close reading of the federalist papers if you have any doubts.
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