"Be true to causes you believe in, but only cautiously loyal to their champions.”
It’s over, and to use Joe Biden’s favorite and oft-repeated descriptive noun, rebirthed from nine decades ago, the duopoly gatherings in Cleveland and Philadelphia gave America a double dosage of political malarkey. Republican malarkey coated with both fear and hate; and Democratic malarkey wrapped in chameleonic deception.
As the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia dusts itself off, Americans are left facing 14 more weeks of lies from two camps of politicians who, for the most part, are bidding for soft political-career jobs in Capitol Hill that only require a reasonable skill in oratory, a lack of scruples, and a selfish heart. And, of course, at the very top of elective offices, one most important of all: that which bids for the American monarchical throne, known in traditional, democratic parlance as the presidency…
America continues living the long perpetuated hoax that our citizenry has a government of the people, by the people, and for the people… and so, come November 8, at the 58th quadrennial election, we’ll all be taking the ultimate Lesser-Evil or Repugnance Test as we are asked to make a choice between two throne seekers who are long, very long, on selfishness and false pride; and short, very short, on truth and judiciousness. This 2016 edition, just formalized, brings us the extremely discomforting duo of an insanely lying braggadocio, Donald Trump, and a first-class deceitful elitist, Hillary Clinton.
Unfortunately for 80+ percent of Americans, no matter how they vote, no matter who turns out to be the victor, their shrinking social (dignity) and economic lots have already been cast, predetermined, before going to the polls. This Repugnance Test in November will solely determine how the economic spoils are to be distributed between the ruling 1 percent Knights – the millionaires and billionaires who draw Bernie’s ire; and the 19- percent Squires – crumb-gatherers who enforce the edicts of the Knights… in our Haves and Have-nots society. To see it any other way, again, as Joe Biden would say, is just a bunch of self-deceiving malarkey.
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