Welcome to the 2016 Farce!
So here we are, the start of 2016, and the beginning of the celebration
of two decades of Brutally Honest commentary!
When I began doing these columns two decades ago, we were in the middle
of the 1996 Elections; when the GOP operated on the delusion that they could
unseat Bill Clinton simply by putting up a career politician who bided his time,
paid his dues, and waited his turn. And
today, we have living proof that the political bosses haven’t learned a single
goddamned thing from those days.
First, a little explanation is in order.
For those who haven’t been keeping up with my columns, or if you just
started reading them, or if they showed up in some Facebook post and you have
no idea who I am, I refused to take part in any mention of the presidential
wannabes for pretty much most of 2015, even though they dominated the
air-fluffed ego-driven news. Every so
often I couldn’t help but to interject a passing comment or two, but I refused
to fall into the trap set by the media that says that their daily horserace polls
(or should that be ho-race polls?) were
somehow their own primary-and-caucus system.
I refused to play their game, because there was still way too much going
on to talk about that didn’t involve contenders and pretenders to the Oval
Office.
But that was then. This is now. Now we are at the time when the candidates
really matter, and when the voters actually have the opportunity to have their
say as to which of those contenders and pretenders would be on the November
ballot.
And I’m going to come out right now and give this election season its
name.
Welcome to the 2016 Farce!
Why a farce?
Well take a look at who is running!
Let’s start with the Democrats. It’s
one thing to be immensely popular. Or
even moderately popular. It’s another
thing entirely to have one of the two dominant political parties in the United States
so biased towards one candidate over any other that they will go so far as to
cheat to give that one candidate a clear advantage.
And yet that is what the hierarchy of the Democratic Party is accused of
doing. They are so in political bed with
Hillary Rodham Clinton that they have been manipulating debate schedules so
that they get the least amount of attention, which leaves their friends in the air-fluffed
ego-driven media free and clear to continue their own personal bias in her
favor over any other candidate.
And I understand why they would want to do that. Hillary is supposed to be the one and only
candidate this time around. This isn’t supposed
to be an actual campaign for her... it’s supposed to be a confirmation. Just like it was supposed to be in 2008. Only, back then, it wasn’t. Some junior Senator from Illinois named
Barack Obama came in and “stole” all of Hillary’s thunder.
So, yeah, I can understand if Dem Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz doesn’t
want her BFF Hillary to be denied her “destiny” for a second time. Who knows if there would even be a third time
for her if she’s not handed the nomination this time?
It’s a pity we don’t know too much about Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley,
thanks to the pro-Hillary manipulations.
I’m sure he means well, and could even be an effective Command-in-Chief. But he’s the “nice guy” in this whole game,
and, speaking as the ultimate “nice guy”, I know for a fact that “nice guys”
finish last.
Ditto with Senator Bernie Sanders, although he’s been following Obama’s
playbook so far in the media. He’s been
out there, getting his name out in the media, and giving Hillary a serious run
for her money. I would love to see him
as the nominee, if only to stick it to Hillary and Schultz and their political
schemes and manipulations. Unfortunately,
he’d have to fight a boatload of Orwellian brainwashing from the conservatives
and neo-conservatives that have conditioned the American people to categorically
hate anything connected to the world “socialist”, even if one were quantify it
by calling themselves “democratic socialist”.
Meanwhile the GOP have a literal clown car of contenders and pretenders and
wannabes. There are so many candidate
clowns that the GOP had to have a “kiddie table” debate along with their “main”
debates of the ones that the party bosses deemed “credible”.
Of course at the head of the GOP clown car (because he
refuses to be anyplace else) is the biggest of the clowns: Donald
Trump. And no matter what he says, no
matter what the GOP hierarchy does to try to neuter him, no matter how much
media groups like the Huffington Post try to minimalize him, the dirty little
secret is that he is the epitome of the GOP base. All those Sarah Palin-like people who hate
Muslims and think Obama wasn’t born in America and believe that God personally
hand-carved the U.S. Constitution and handed to their lord and savior, George
W. Bush, who think that the government should bomb first and ask questions
never... those “’muricans” are all that are left of the GOP base! Those are the people that Trump is feeding
off of, because he firmly believes that those are the people that will show up
at the primaries and caucuses.
Behind Trump is the Canadian-born Ted Cruz, the biggest political
hypocrite in American history. This is
the same party and the exact same political faction that threw screaming temper
tantrums for years over Barack Obama’s birth certificate, accused him of not
being a native-born citizen as required under the Constitution - even though he was born in Hawaii
- and yet they have no qualms whatsoever with Cruz being born in Canada and
pull out some article in the Harvard Law Review from some Reagan-era attorney
to proclaim it’s “okay” because his mother was an American citizen. Talk about being a pompous self-serving self-righteous
prick! This is the same form of shysterism
that came up with the “Twinkies”
defense and “Affluenza”,
and yet the only people who are speaking up about it are Donald Trump and yours
truly, and I was saying something about this long before Trump even bothered to
put his coiffed hair in the clown car!
Oh and I haven’t even gotten to the part of his connection to Goldman
Sachs, the biggest of the Too Big To Fail groups that helped create the Great
Recession! And yet he wants to pretend
he’s the champion of the common man!
Right! And we’ve always been at
war with Eastasia.
The rest of the clowns...
seriously, they’re a joke! Governor Jeb
Bush was supposed to be the “smart” one in the family, not the “invisible”
one. Marco Rubio can claim to be a political
“outsider” only because he’s been absent in his job as a Congressman. You know, once upon a time, that would be
called incompetence. Dr. Ben Carson has
a problem with facts, not to mention he’s the walking equivalent of
Ambien. Carly Fiorina sees videos that
don’t exist and doesn’t understand that you can’t just grab a bunch of kids and
use them for an anti-abortion prop without their parents’ permission. Governor Chris Christy... well, I’ll
cross that bridge when he’s relevant again.
Then there’s Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum and Mike Huckabee, who was once
declared “God’s Anointed Candidate”, and the rest of the also-rans and wannabes
that you really have to wonder if they’re just in the running so they can win a
free toaster.
And the frustrating part is that these are all the people that we, the
voters, will have to pick from for the primaries and caucuses. One of those aforementioned people will be
the next President of the United States.
And it’s not that there won’t be better candidates on the November
ballot. There will be. Former Governor Gary Johnson comes to mind,
as does McAfee creator John McAfee. Both
of them are running for the Libertarian Party nomination. Either one of them would be a far better
choice than both clown cars. But that all
depends on you, the great unwashed, actually doing your jobs and considering
those other options instead of all of you whoring out your votes to the GOP and
DNC party bosses and their Orwellian scripts.
That’s why this 2016 election is a farce!
Because, let’s get brutally honest here... you each have the power to
change things, and, each and every year, you categorically refuse to do your
jobs! You whore out your votes to the
zero-sum fantasy script that says there are and have always been two and only
two political parties since the dawn of humanity and that you have to choose
which one of the two incompetent, inept, corrupt, socially destructive parties
that you will throw your vote away for.
The GOP Clown Car may be full of delusional, corrupt, and inept
candidates, but they pale in comparison to the gross incompetence and
ineptitude of you, the voters! And they
know it! They know it! Why do you think there are so many clowns in
that car in the first place?
But to borrow from the biggest of the clowns (and
his most recent supporter), in terms of farces, there is no
doubt this will be the greatest, most spectacular of spectacles in the history
of farces. In fact, it can’t help but be
the absolute best farce given who is involved.
It will be the envy of the world and will make all other farces pale in comparison. Even the lame-stream media will be in awe of
how great this farce will be. It will be
so monumental that we’ll even be convinced to pay for it! Guaranteed!
You betcha!
