Bug-Eyed Churl <thedavid.RemoveThis@null.invalid> wrote:
> Either he's too rich himself to care (which is unlikely), or he's such
> a good whore for corporate interests that he doesn't need /government/
> money, or he (as I suspect) is just a shill who's not supposed to win,
> part of "some vast right-wing conspiracy" to edge McCain in sideways
> while at the same time "building voter confidence in our democracy."
When Clinton was still running didn't you say she was going to split the
party as badly as she could, take it right up to the convention and then
sulk off, so Obama wouldn't win and McCain would get it?
If you're going to do conspiracy theory, why not go whole hog? Let's say
the candidates are all working for the same secret conspiracy, but they
campaign for real -- their place in the lineup of conspiracy shills
depends on how good a show they provide. Kind of like -- professional
wrestling?
And let's say the conspiracy has been running the country for a real
long time. In the '20's they were worried about communism, and they
tried beating the unions into submission -- just produce enough of
everything for their own lifestyle and let the rest go hang. They owned
the country. But then WWII came up, and they saw the chance to step in
just in time for the nazis and russian communists to exhaust each other.
And after that the russians got nukes. They gave us years of prosperity
because they wanted a happy middle class that wouldn't go communist
while they outspent the russians militarily. Now the USSR is gone and
they're ready to go back to beating the middle class into submission.
Get rid of government spending that benefits lower or middle class
people -- they can fend for themselves and they might as well be
grateful for a chance to work for a good master.
So, maybe Obama wins and he announces that Bush's people have stolen so
much we're poor now. Mostly they've covered their tracks but we punish a
few strays who don't actually have much to give back. We have to accept
a lot of sacrifices to get things running again. Maybe we get a lot of
low-paying jobs making stuff to export. Kind of like -- china. We cut
way back on social services. We don't get the health care we want
because we just plain can't pay for it. We cut back on social security
because we have to. Do we cut back the military? Sure, but less than the
rest. We cut back on fancy weapons systems but don't cut back the pay
much -- so the military is one of the best jobs around if you can get
in. Police get pretty good pay too, and getting through some years as a
cop gives you a big in to get into the army and vice versa. Our
experience in iraq gives us a solid base for dealing with lower-class
subversives in the USA.
Much easier for the public to accept it when it's their Hope, Obama
doing it than McCain or even worse Bush in his third term.
Is that bleak enough for you? I can do bleaker but it takes some special
assumptions.
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