Creep

I got a bit creeped out when I saw this photo. A right wing Democrat was being groped by a right wing Democrat – consensual incest. Later they will break out the cigars and celebrate Blanche Lincoln’s return to right wing politics after her brief and mandatory flirtation with progressivism during the primary challenge.

As with Howard Hughes or PeeWee Herman, the mind of the voting public should not be probed. It could be unsettling. I’ve been reading reactions to the election results here and there, and bloggers and pundits really do think that they can read votes and minds, as if there were some sort of cloud intellect out there pulling levers.

In 2006-08 there was a massive shift from Republicans to Democrats, and since that time hardly anything has changed. We’ve still got our wars, our fear, Guantanamo, corporate bailouts. Add to that the culmination of the Bush/Cheney offshore drilling program, carried forward by Obama, and maybe voters would like now to try something different … but this is the United States, and there are no real options.

So let’s just have some fun with it. Let’s elect Ron Paul and Jerry Brown and Joe Sestak. These guys do not seem to respect either wing of the corporate party. The only signal that I can read from candidates that indicates that they are not corporate-approved, other than being disliked by Rahm Emanuel, is unmanageable kinkiness.

Corporate money will allow Democrats to campaign as progressives when the wind blows that way, but they are not allowed to govern that way. I am not being scientific here, and I know about Rand Paul’s proclivity towards lunanomics, but I also suspect he is not being managed. He might not be dependable. He could be, like his Dad, a wild card.

Democrats tell us that we have to settle for getting a little of what we want with otherwise undesirable candidates. So they will take some comfort in the fact that Blanche Lincoln puts a “D” after her name. It means nothing – that groping hug in the picture above says it all. We’ll soon be screwed again by Democrats.

So have some fun with elections. Find the least likely candidate with the oddest ideas, the quirkiest intellect … and imagine. Virtually all D’s and R’s in the USA are C’s. Better run with the wild card crowd and be disappointed on election day than to invest in corporate “winners” and be disappointed for the following two, four or six years.