The Horse Race

I'm tired of all the polls, beltway pundits reading tea leaves and he said/she said stories in every other news cycle.

How did it come to the point where all we care about is parsing the finer meaning in a sentence uttered by a candidate than?

It reminds me of an old joke. Never wrestle with a pig. You'll just get muddy and the pig will win.

The beltway bunch, of which the MSM is the ring leader, are heavily invested in the strategy of hyping all the nuances emitted from a campaign. It was only four years ago nuance was a dirty word, yet here we are fully engaged in nuance. We can't see the forest for the trees, or is that we can't see the pig for all the mud?

We haven't had one single debate yet. What the MSM calls a debate is really nothing more than a dog and pony show. These candidates owe great allegiance to the corporate elite, for it is solely through the elites information infrastructure that these candidates are able to get face time in front of their prospective constituents.

The 'debates' are nothing more than protracted infomercials with occasional flares of drama. Actually, the drama is fabricated and run through the subsequent news cycles until something fresh comes along.

The United States of America was a great success for a relatively short time. However, in all of my 44 years, I have lived not one moment in anything other than the United States of America, Inc.

We've been running on the fumes of a nation long gone. We're a ghost of a nation. We simply haven't come realize that we ceased to exist a long, long time ago.

This election cycle has only served to cement my belief that America was bought and sold a long time ago. Before I was born, and before many here were born.