The pathetic elections have provided an answer to the question posed in the last post. No, there is no way to avoid that conclusion. Corporate idiocy, foaming-at-the-mouth greed and ignorance...a mass of spoiled children running amok in their hand-made hell, figuratively gnawing on each other's heads...ah yes, the American electorate.
Goodbye to Russ Feingold, one of the few decent people in American politics - defeated by dollars, hate, stupidity, fear...ah yes, the American electorate.
How does a thinking person avoid being drawn into the inevitable vortex of Ambrose Bierce-ville? Where are today's Menckens?
Are there any grown-ups in the American corporate press? Does anyone at the NY Times really reflect, just for a moment, on the daily foolishness posing as "all the news that's fit to print" on their front page?
..."toda la pobre inocencia de la gente"...sang Mercedes Sosa...the poor innocence of the people"...yeah, right. There is nothing innocent about "the people". They are a mass of frightened, pathetic fools, who rabidly cling to their ignorance like a hungry dog its bone...who prize, cherish their ignorance, who worship it as their one true god, and who in the end will erect their own Tower of American Babel out of the brick and mortar of their own bristling stupidity.
¡Hay que joderse!
