The State of Our Selection Process

The ongoing farce

Hair Trump watches a lot of TV, we know that from his twitter account.

Hair Trump then goes on twitter and has a meltdown over what he saw on TV.

Hair Trump then gets Sean Spicer to try and clean up his mess, Sean then makes it worse but a whole lot funnier than the original rant.

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Hair Trump then says "all we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it. You shouldn’t be talking to me. You should be talking to Fox."

Fox to avoid further embarrassment then drops Andrew Napolitano from its "faux noise consultation and fabrication" task force.

The disconnect seems to be between Hair Trump's twitter persona and the one that is meant to be President of the US of A. Personally I find the whole shambolic affair pretty sad.

Congress then wheels out the FBI and NSA to say some stuff, not that any dedicated party partisans will/will not believe anything they hear or want to hear. Personally all I heard was either flat negation of some claims or blah blah blah national security, it was not reassuring one way or another, it was just another event in the never ending circus. The only people who will see [at this point] any evidence, whatever it is, are probably the least trusted group in America these days: Politicians.

What we have is Opaque Government and this is a fertile ground for conspiracy theories to breed. The coverall is "we don't want our enemies to know what we know" and that is that. Now one could argue this is a deliberate policy of government to distract and divide, one could also argue that this is more dangerous to our own people than giving indications of what we are up to to foreign powers. That is my point of view.

The noise about some other power messing about with us is more to do with "that's our job and we called dibs" than anything else. Our politicians after one crisis finally got what they really wanted "a surveillance state" enabled by the odious "Patriot Act" that in my mind was never actually needed at all. Many now turn to the NSA whose powers and scope is hard to grasp unless someone like Edward Snowden says hey look see this is what we actually do. The centralized outrage when any leak like that occurs is epic. The most worrying thing is that all to often that outrage becomes partisan then to vary based only upon which party is in control.

We are allowed sporadically to select a member of the duopoly to fulfil a role in government these are jokingly meant to be our representatives since we cant all fit into the democratic process,it would just be messy ya know. Then some even wonder why when grouped together they are less popular than head-lice.

The summit of this farce was when two candidates with popularity well into the negatives were selected by each side of the duopoly and their partisans. They might have well demanded that we select between two turds, oh I am sure they will inform me of their candidates "merits". Sadly for them neither has exactly been wilting flowers in terms of self-promotion, something like 45% couldn't even be bothered to participate in the farce, some like myself could not face voting for the duopoly one way or another and committed "treason" by voting for someone else. In effect we have about 1 in 4.2 eligible selectors deciding who rules. Mandates should not be even/ever be mentioned.

Transparency and openness could have been the key to good governance, personally I believe the distrust both warranted/justified and made-up could have been largely avoided but is now too late in the existing system to rectify. Hell, we have been lied to and manipulated for so long now would we even know/notice the difference? Instead we are fed the politics of division to keep us at each others throats and the opaqueness of government blinds us to the reality. When we look at the bribery and corruption of the whole "campaign financing" the continuously operating revolving doors it's a truly desperate state of democracy, once we have participated in the selection process we are no longer needed.

2010 will be the duopolies main target for who gets to gerrymander the most. SCOTUS is a political tool as to which side of the duopoly gets to interpret the law/constitution in their favour, hence the screams from the partisans every selection cycle.

Talk about campaign finance reform, term limits or heaven forbid third parties raise such clouds of partisan bullshit that the discussion never really starts. Yet each will merrily point to congresspeople on the other side as to which is the most bought and paid for, never looking at their own unless forced to when they are only caught doing some actually illegal rather than merely allowed/borderline under the current rules written by these same people.

Any perception in democracy is in an absolute shambles and it will take a whole lot more than rerunning the selection process again and again to sort it out. "Not as bad as" will once again be rolled out as a justification to select one or the other. The pillaging of our economy by the oh so few will continue unabated coupled with the politics of division. Populist policies to actually help the vast majority will be rejected by "The Trump Coefficient". It's not populist/popular policies that are the danger, it's the demagogues that use them/reject them out of hand for the benefit of the few and of course their own.

Sorry for the ramble

PS
I use selection/selector deliberately