Hello Snowshoe, <<Unhappy Democrats Must Wait to Get Into Canada>>
My Erita should get her papers from the Canada that has become so popular, but within 40 days.
Since everyone and their whatever feels energized to comment on the election that changed nothing, I will dump my 2 HK cents worth.
(a) All governments are ultimately answerable to the people, some more systematically via elections, and others more resolutely by bleeding; one gentle, the other dynamic;
(b) The trouble with electoral democracy is that the system is never thoroughly cleansed as any result, as in with blood curdling cries, unfathomable wealth distribution and the rolling of heads. The diseased tissues are left in place, to ferment and fester, until the next election, and the one after that. Eventually the system loses all dynamism and relevancy, boiling down to gay marriages and pieces of metal unearned so long ago via the shooting of kids in an expensive and inhumane war of no consequence;
(c) Leaders ought to rise to the top of the heap, dynamically, through vigorous battles and no-holds-barred conflicts, accompanied by much anguish and plenty of cries, garnished with blood, decorated with treachery, displaying unusual acumen and exhibiting uncommon valor; as opposed to able to convince 51% of the electorates via foolish sound bites; else anybody, simply anybody, even Yale graduates, can end up being the leader of the pack. Rome rose for a reason, and fell for another reason.
(d) The difficulty with electoral democracy is that at the base of all instincts, the electorates all want the same thing, election after election, which is MONEY, and yet money is one of the very few things that cannot be voted for, and so the system rushes headlong into desperate bankruptcy or resolve itself by opening the 11th chapter, with the pain shared democratically by all … but that is not the difficulty. The difficulty is that there is no satisfaction, as the ruling class continues to rule, and no heads are rolled;
(e) The electorates generally like their lessons harsh, and so it shall be;
(f) Now, this is not to say I favor one system to another. Because I do not. I want whatever system the constituency is happy with, and then I want to be able to opt-out at any moment unnoticed.
As far as the election that just took place that pitted Kerry against Bush, I guess the best the man won, by a few percentage points, and all is as was, and so it is to war and despair, as the electorates wish.
I simply mark on my calendar to remind myself “nothing changed, back to speculation, direction will probably be oil up, gold up, dollar down, stocks down, bonds up, housing down, debt collapse” as opposed to if Kerry had won, in which case I would note to myself “something changed, back to speculation, direction will probably be oil up, gold up, dollar down, stocks down, bonds up, housing down, debt collapse”
Chugs, Jay |
