a tainted and obsequious age

“but this was a tainted and meanly obsequious age. the greatest figures had to protect their positions by subserviency…many junior senators competed with each other’s offensively sycophantic proposals. there is a tradition that whenever tiberius left the senate-house he exclaimed in greek, ‘men fit to be slaves.’ “ tacitus, the annals of imperial rome.

so it's what? tweleve or so yahoos against the entire electoral system that has been going on for a couple of hundred years ( even sleepey joe certified donny's win in 2016 )...i an skeptical they will succeed...this is an effort on their part to curry favor with the voters at home...one can hope that the cretious pence's political career is over...one has one's doubts given his home state...these things happen...huey long comes to mind...that didn't end well either...whatever happens these sham sycophants are throroughly disgusting...ted cruz has no shame...none of them do...narcissists to the bone that is why the entire electoral government is shot through with people who are inclined to think themselves smarter than the polity and unafraid to say so...whether in direct language or inference...this is patently untrue..."the people" aren't stupid...mostly disguted...for highly varied reasons but rightly so in the end of things even if they do not agree on the sources of that disgust...so what's wednesday going to look like? the ukranians may have presaged it.

the chinese and russians, among others, are laughing their asses off.