whose hope?

"one is constantly being thrown out in one's calculations because one listens to the articulate minority and forgets the other 99%" george orwell.diary entry 9 october 1942

this was in the n y times op-ed section this morning...

beyond the fact that she is married to a politician and, by dint of that relationship,thinks like one, i don't have much to say about michelle obama...don't know her...not especially interested in knowing her...we move in different circles...that she can so well illustrate ( in frank bruni's eyes at least...i would point out that frank is a pundit and is, as such, one of the articulate and convinced he has a better grasp of the subtleties of what passes for representative government these days...i am fairly sure he has an agenda as well ) why we should all get off our dead asses and vote for joe biden and that cortez woman ( should you be a constituent ) because the country is going to hell in a hand-basket if we don't...well michelle...i have voted in every election since the 1972 presidential election and, nearly as i can ascertain it hasn't changed much of anything...i don't know where you live ( and i am not asking ) but where i am at things haven't exactly been all sweetness and light over the last forty years as the rightward thrust of the alleged american democracy has systematically undermined the ability of large segments of the polity to make a living wage by, among other things, waging a legislative war against unions...beginning with that misery reagan politics here has skewed so far to the right that the "liberal" wing of the democratic party resembles nothing so much as the republicanism of the 1950s ( where nixon was born, incidentally...along with "tail gunner joe" )...another four years of donny would be a disaster...joe biden isn't all that much of a step up and i wouldn't expect much beyond some cosmetic changes...the federal government is bankrupt...fiscally and ethically...cosmetic is all they can do...the "articulate" are doing their best to sell us a bill of goods that, in the end...after all the hanging chads find the floor and the votes are counted and judicial decisions rendered and some damned politician is sworn in by the chief justice ( and i would like to point out that, while donny may indeed not be a career politician [ it shows ] his handlers are...and they have agendas too ) things are still going to be fucked...because, among other things, the window for preventing the "worst case scenario" for climate change has probably already slammed shut since the deniers won the battle of political will and as masses of people begin to flee the uninhabitable portions of the earth things are going to get dodgy, if not downright brutal...put on your realist caps and ponder the blowback from all that need for "better science" and inhofe's goddamned snowball...so i am left wondering whose last best hope we are dealing with here...mine? yours? ours? or are we being led in the interest of that 1%? and not, of necessity, the "articulate" 1%.