"by excluding men under thirty-five from the first office, and those under thirty from the second ( president and senator respectively ), it confines the electors to men of whom the people have had time to form a judgement and with respect to whom they are not liable to be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle."-john jay federalist LXIV_______________________"the exhaustion of the masses is unquestionable."-grigory zinoviev, 15 novemmber 1917 in a central committee meeting__________________today is guy fawkes day...a quasi diminution of an act of rebellion/subversion/treason/terrorism depending on who is writing about it...and i usually don't need to wait for some particular day to express an opinion about the sorry state of hegemonic culture in these once united states...that the last election offered a dismal choice of the venal and corrupt for high office ( yes...that woman is no better...fucking sue me ) is an unquestionable fact and i am wondering just how that came to be...partly because the "masses" are "exhausted"...not so much by lying whore politicians...those have been around since the beginning ( we will get to jay in a minute ) but by the dead end appearance of the economy...the erosion of economic middle ground...the gig economy and the inability to make ends meet, seemingly no matter how much one might work...so they rebelled at the polls and installed , incredibly to my mind, just another member of the hegemonic elite who was posing as a regular guy...a "meteor" that "mislead" if he didn't "dazzle"...then again when hasn't a member of the hegemonic elite people the white house ( no dissent...obama was of that elite and he will not be unwealthy for the rest of his days..and "honest" abe may have been a rail splitter once but the house he lived in before his turn as president was a prosperous lawyer's, pot a cabin in the woods )..bear in mind that the franchise was limited tot he "better" men in jay's day and he was all for that...who knows who the hoi polloi might elect...his rants about the masses are manifold in the federalist papers..so the "people" he wanted to form "judgements" about the "electors" were not the common folk...candidates were vetted by the interests of the elite and the real decisions about who stood for what were made in an arena removed from public scrutiny...sound anything like the recent past? people believe in this system mostly because of high school civics..i have been out of high school for nearly fifty years ( 1971 ) i was skeptical about these people then ( there was viet nam and watergate ) i find them loathsome now...odd that "lock her up" ( which i am inclined to think she should be on general principles ) was such a refrain in 2016 and mat apply to that cretinous freak in say 2017 or 18...fuck these people...fake news..alternative facts...just the same old political lies and dissembling...smoke and mirrors...slight of hand...they keep us divided and they win until the system collapses from its own entropy ( shall we talk about an eroding tax base and the consequences in terms of infrastructure? climate gentrification of areas higher above sea level and the displacement of the poor? that climate change...there's the outside, objective force that will not be placated...collapse is there...take a look ) time to start looking to forming alternative cultural structures.
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