☆ Running for office and holding office is usually something like being nibbled on by fish 24/7 and eventually eaten whole and digested. So political survivors and up-and-comers try to develop a thick skin and an entrenched fortress around themselves – lawyers, patrons, real estate money, political guardians, machine alliances, etc. They all claim they do it because they love their community and want to serve their community. The rhetoric rarely varies that much, other than the occasional loudmouth idiot or the even less occasional person with actually very good ideas. Campaign rhetoric is often as hollow of a gesture and as trite as holding a baby up for a photo-op during the election.
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As plain as the GOP blindness is, it is also kind of insane that liberal voters will run right back to the Democrats and just start the same empty vicious cycle over again, only to once again be betrayed. It’s what Wall Street used to call easy money in the 1980s. We already know that Republican voters are infantilized and inhabited by the GOP ideology to the point of not being able to think for themselves, much like a crackhead haunted by the rock. But what excuse do the better educated liberal voters have for continuing to fall into the trap of thinking that the Democrats will represent them accurately and honestly? That’s almost worse than the childlike trust that GOP voters allow themselves to be possessed by merely at the unfurling of the flag. Humanity is allowing itself to be directed by this reductive team sports mentality, the demons standing at the gate of transcendence.
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