and a thousand slimy things lived on, and so did i...

“mccarthy was a master of ‘framing’, the technique of gaining control of a complex and possibly threatening situation by means of a few turns of phrase, reducing it to a simple and attractive falsehood. the reporters loved him. every day he furnished them with news and easily manageable quotations, and they swallowed everything, even when they knew better,’mccarthy was a dream story,’ one of them recalled later, ‘i wasn’t off page one for four years.’” geert mak. “in america: travels with john steinbeck”_____________ ___ how familiar does this sound to you? in a political season that has seen the zoo parade of freaks and geeks coming out of what was once the party of lincoln that reinvented itself as the party of the elite run through a sausage grinder of puerile schoolyard innuendo and sullen invective the front runner fits the prototype pioneered by “tail gunner joe “…and the stenographers posing as an “independent press” have availed themselves of the same cheap and easy headlines…to their benefit and the detriment of us all… if you bother to mine this blog you will find i have never been a particular fan of the political punditry or the whores they cover and, so far, the 2016 circus has done nothing but vindicate that stance…the fourth estate has always been part of a corporate system that sold a product…mencken be damned…they work for corporate entities that have editorial boards, mostly comprised of advertisers…they have a vested interest in distortion and dissembling…from tawdry coverage about genitalia and venereal disease to the eating habits of john kasich this campaign coverage has set a tone that the national enquirer would find questionable…even jerry springer…and it goes on because what these clowns say sells news…and the candidates will continue to wallow in this behavioral sump because ink is ink…and the media will be obliging...i have voted in every presidential election since nixon stomped mcgovern flat in ’72…and every one of them has been a negative choice…the stench rising from this particular round is so overpowering i am not sure what the outcome will be…are there enough hate filled people to elect trump to the presidency? many i know say “impossible”…i am not convinced…the options emanating from the other side are the unelectable versus the oligarch…the choice is unpalatable…..either way the interests of the “people” are subverted in favor of the elite ( this is, of course the crux of the system…it was designed to neutralize the “interested and overbearing majority”[madiosn…federalist X ]..it was, however, never intended to be such a blatant disenfranchisement, it was intended to seem as if the “will of the people” mattered...something is amiss with the 227 year old wiring…perhaps money has caused a short )…i voted yesterday…i will hold my nose and vote again in november…i have never been sanguine about the outcome of elections…politicians are whores…journalists are either hired propagandists or lazy bastards…joseph shumpeter was correct…elections are not about the “common good”.