munching bags

Just a note here on how farcical is the hue and cry over Russo-American election tampering Maybe Putin observed that tampering is the essence of democracy and he was practicing in case it should some day grace his land.

Seems to me government by the people, for and of has perished from the United States less than 200 years since Lincoln posed the possibility. A new set of prepositions has been installed: at the people, on the people, to the people. Too many people. I'm wondering why it's portrayed as shocking when foreigners de-democratize us, but it's business as usual by Americans. If democracy is sacred, then Republican gerrymandering is treasonous and corporate buying of the electorate sanctioned by our “representatives” is blasphemy. If the puppeteers care so much about our inalienable rights, what was that we were allowed to glimpse in 2000? When GOP thugs were beating down a Dade County door to stop vote counting until the Supreme Court could weigh in and extinguishing our voice for good, why were no arrests made? Where's the uproar? Maybe it's best to quit imagining we're lions and we roar. We're sheep and we bah. Our shepherds show us where to graze.

Well, there it is – the essence of democracy: It's our fault isn't it? We're the ones who voted them in. Why don't we stop complaining and just vote the bastards out? The catch being as everyone knows, very few non bastards ever survive the vetting process.

I suppose the current game is to find an excuse for Donald Trump. Heaven forbid the supposed party of decent behavior and the media on which we all depend for our opinions should be held accountable for sabotaging Bernie Sanders, thereby pointing out how not about the “people” the latter day system is. SUPER DELEGATES?!? Really? No, it's better to blame the age old punching bag.

And why should we care anyway? As Mrs. Robinson should know very well by now, every way we look at it we lose. Best just to ignore their silly games and concentrate on the real world. It's what sheep do - rely on the nice man with the long stick to protect them while they enjoy the grass. And it's more satisfying. Grass is good.