AIN'T AMERICA GREAT!
GOP "Money Primary"and DEM "Stealth Primary" Not Up To Democracy Standards
It's amzin'! I read today in the Washington Post how Jeb Bush has swept the "money primary". Without a citizen entering a polling booth or a vote being cast, by anyone anywhere across this wide land of the USA, the greatest democracy of the western world already has the two candidates who it will present to the nation's voters next November 2016! Is this some kind of super American political efficiency? Or is it a sign of the pathetic decline and decay of a great democracy?
According to the major media outlets, right now February 12, 2015, just about eleven months before the Iowa Caucuses (January 18, 2016) and the New Hampshire primary vote (January 26) Jeb Bush has swept the so called "money primary" . Fallen by the way side we find Bush's main opponent Mitt Romney who was buzz sawed at the knees several weeks back when he lost the support of the major players who are allowed to participate in the great money primary. Also felled by the Bush money juggernaut are Mssrs Christie, Ryan, Paul, and Walker. These guys are now just walking dead. The 400- 500 plutocrats have decided against them. Recall these are the guys and gals who made ROMNEY say those stupid things about the forty percenters, makers and takers. Now they have made "their" decision to move "their" money support to the Bush camp. They have made up "their" minds, and now like the infamous Koch brothers ( who have slapped down about a billion dollars on the table to buy, or er support their choice candidate) the money they donate will insure that "their" candidate wins.
On the other side of the political spectrum, there sits crowned and hidden under wraps, Mrs Bill Clinton. The former First Lady, with President Bill's help, has amassed a huge treasure trove of her own wealth and wrung promises for a Croesus' treasure from another group of plutocrats. Her sinister "pre-money primary" manipulations and positioning have made it virtually impossible for any other viable candidate to even imagine running. (Sorry Bernie, I really like you...but thqt is unimportant-- you still don't have a chance.). The Democrat's cash well has been sucked dry by the Clinton's. As a consequence, the Democratic side will not even have even the opportuniy for a "money primary". That is disgusting.
Thus, in the greatest "democracy" the world has ever known, It matters not a whit what the nation's millions of voters or the operatives and stalwarts of both parties desire or wish for. The major decisions have been made for the citizenry already, now almost two years ahead of any voting booths being wheels out or cleaned and oiled up. The two candidates: "Tweedle Dee" and "Tweedle Dum "have been vetted and decided upon by a minuscule minority of the nation's powerful and wealthy. Now the elite will present their candidates to the nation's voters so the voters can have an election.
As school kids in the 50s and 60s we jeered Communist China, and the former Soviets, for their so-called "free elections". In those nations our teachers informed us that they staged "sham" elections, since the candidate-lists were made up of individuals hand-picked by the party big wigs. Our teachers reasoned rightly that there was little or no choice for Communist Chinese voters if the candidates were hand picked by the Communist Party. Or for that matter for US voters if the candidates are first chosen and vetted by a tiny corps of wealthy plutocrats.
We do have elections and we love them. But what are the real choices we have? Voters will eventually come to resent having their options so limited. All the election hoopla, all the money spent for air time, paper hand outs, mail box stuffers and trudging campaigners, expenditures for news paper adverts, colorful balloons, dancing girls, garish signs and tons and tons of confetti---all of that will go on. Some people will think they are making a real decision....but the major choices have been made already. Too bad. The early "money primary" and the Clinton "stealth primary" are not a way to govern a great nation.
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