that there are more journalists than politicians whose company i could tolerate is a given since i have not met a politician whose hand i would willingly shake yet...one journalist could tip the scales...studs terkel comes to mind as a template of a decent journalist...he could tell a good story too...still...the media are full of trash for the most part and the larger the audience the deeper the agenda and the more blatant the misdirection...
over at the times ( new york to begin with...there are other "times"...they have their issues as well ) today fear is on the agenda...as it seems to be most days any more...
they have the inside story on why the republicans want the suburbs to live in fear...
and they have the seven clear and present election day nightmares that make that steven king guy look like mickey mouse...
and if that weren't enough, something that was institutionalized in the basic law of the land is suddenly gnawing away at the entrails of our democracy...well...that "democracy" is an allegation that has yet to be proved and it is clear that the op-ed pundits at the times haven't taken the time to read any john locke or even peruse the "fundamental constitutions of carolina" he penned in 1669...there is a reason madison and co. latched on to locke as a political guru and that reason is the direct and sustained limitation of the "will of the people" to a level where it can be easily manipulated by the elite...the electoral college is a bulwark against anyone inimical to the interests of wealth becoming the "chief magistrate" and you will play hell getting rid of it...fear is the zeitgeist at the times...
the post says "democracy dies in darkness"...i am not convinced it ever existed here, but that doesn't preclude its dying dead in broad daylight...withered like a snake in a brush fire...
they are genuinely worried about "the system" whatever you'd care to call it...perhaps not as shrill as the times...but as ardent in their loathing of trumpy...
and it seems that a few voters in georgia...
took the self-absorbed adolescent seriously...of course it could all have been an error on the part of a bureaucrat too...we don't have all the details yet...
the l a times seems too preoccupied with wild fires and sports to have time to fearmonger...or maybe i just caught them on an off day...for a buck i could spend the next eight weeks following the drama of the negotiations for the clippers "new home"...i have enough on my plate as it is though...i will have to pass up this deal...
the agitprop over at fox goes on...the only seeming good news is the markets are up...at the moment anyway...
amidst all the denunciations ( they come off as rather stalinist over there in terms of assumed guilt ) and recriminations i found this bit of absurdist theater...well...if barry and that stuffed shirt gore could get one why not trumpy? fair is fair...but one supposes the nobel committee might choke on this one...
and while the subject of absurdist ( if not dada ) theater is open to discussion let's not leave out the hooha over kammy's shoes...it isn't just fear that's driving this campaign...but there isn't a real issue in sight...misdirection and distortion of the real can take many forms...meanwhile...
let the migrations begin...internal and external.
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