may is in june this year

i have a fair interest in politics...the wider ideology of corporate governance is of some concern ( or should be ) to all of us because it is a corporate government...madison insured it would be in the hands of wealth and corporate structures have been the legal shield for the sociopaths that control them since jay gould and charles tyson yerkes walked the earth and corporate structures have owned politicians since...there are some outstanding personalities that attract my attention as well...i believe some have been discussed here before...i might have even mentioned the congressman from this district in passing...however he was never on the front burner in editorial terms...fairly low key and nondescript...he survived an ethics investigation a few years back but beyond that ( in comparison ) he has been fairly monochromatic...

so when my mailbox began to fill up with campaign mailings from people who wanted his job i began to wonder...and i will admit that he is so monochromatic that i missed the news tidbit that announced his retirement from the political grind...these things happen...there are louder politicians and larger issues at hand effectively drowning him out...so change is in the air...sort of...because i am left wondering if his replacement will make much of any difference in the general trend of things in the late empire...i am inclined to doubt it ( this should come as no surprise )...mara candelaria reardon doubled up on the mailings today...one from "maria for congress"and another form something called "chc bold pac" which disclaims "not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee"...so someone has an interest in seeing mara elected beyond maria...certainly she has an uncomplicated platform...monochromatic almost...fitting...big on healthcare...okay...it is an issue...it is expensive...it is biased towards wealth ( find me something of import that isn't...you cannot )...it is not equally dispensed...mara will have her hands full with the insurance lobby and i am betting they have more cash than she does...back to that corporate/wealth business again...and one wonders how far that "progressive" will be getting her should she make it to congress...they have a habit of wearing down newcomers until they fit the corporate mold...ask pete... tom's mailing ( "paid for by democratic progress. not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee' ) has a few more planks in the platform beyond echoing maria's healthcare fixation...i have heard a great deal about clean energy in the past twenty years...the post-carbon institute is all for it...bp/ammoco says they are too...with a few provisos and a quid pro quo that will allow them to recoup loses over sunk costs in infrastructure..."lord, make me clean...but not yet" we have to think of the shareholders...again there may be trouble with the lobbyists and they have a way of getting what they want..."by the people, for the people" or not...create high paying jobs? for whom? tom? that's another chestnut that has been kicked around for years...heard all about it as unions have been busted, the "right to work" guaranteed, and the extractive upward redistribution of wealth carried on...someone needs to work out a new script for campaign promises...the old one has so many holes no one believes it anymore...which may be a mechanism the pols are relying on to engender the voter apathy they so love and rely on to keep things manageable...the last thing any politician wants is to have to actually address the needs and wishes of madison's "interested and overbearing majority" ( and, for who knows what number of times, i am going to suggest a close reading of the federalist papers as a primer into why things are they way they are...the system madison, jay, and hamilton laid out aint broke...it is humming away nicely )...let's keep a lid on the rabble by boring them to death with the same, tired rhetoric while we work on BAU with our handlers...that said i will vote on june second...i have voted in every election i have been eligible to since november of 1972 and will continue to do so into my dotage...not because i have a shred of belief in the rigged ponzi scheme that is government...but because it makes the bastards nervous when people turn out...they hate accountability like the plauge.