My Take for What It's Worth

I can't say I am one of those struggling with the results of the recent Presidential election. Am I happy with those results? No. I wouldn't have been happy unless a third party won. But I know others are struggling, trying to figure out why the party that is supposed to be for the people lost so bad. Are the common people turning into right-wing assholes? Is that why? Or wait, it's white women, who didn't come out to vote for Kamala in enough numbers? Or? The minorities didn't show... Whatever.

Well, I think it's something else. There is no representation for the common people in the government. When someone, even someone like Trump, pretends to care about the common people, some of them will vote for that person. When what was once the common people's party (or pretended to be the common people's party), the Democratic Party, spends all its time talking about how great it is that they selected a non-commoner (money-wise, power-wise, job-wise, etc), to be their candidate for President, when they force that candidate on the people without giving those people any ability to have a say in the selection, even as low a say as primaries (like the say the people had in the 2020 primaries where Kamala had to quit right away with no support), then that party is gonna lose. But TPTB in the party knew that, and didn't care. They are still TPTB, still in charge, and still doing well. F* the rest of us.

From another recent election, but still appropriate! (Source)

Luke O'Neil wrote a good article about this on his website Welcome to Hell World. The piece is entitled Our Final Reward. He starts with sarcasm, about how we are all going to be punished by... whatever... for Kamala's loss. He discusses how horrible it was to write for the mainstream media when he had to and delves a bit into that media's reaction to Kamala's loss and who they are blaming. Apparently they are blaming the fact that her campaign had a supposed left-wing taint (Where? When? I didn't detect it at all and neither did O'Neil) and that's what cratered it.

O'Neil says:

So we have been subjected to ten thousand election postmortems delivered by people who have determined the real culprit in this loss. People like these f*cking Democrat hacks [the 'left' side of the mainstream media] who – as Jack Mirkinson writes – "have simply invented an alternate universe out of thin air" in which the chief reason for Kamala Harris' loss was her supposed left wing campaign.

You and I are not paid to lie nor are we paid to raise money to lose elections every few years in perpetuity we are just some guy so naturally this reads to us as patently absurd nonsense. Indeed "Kamala Harris ran as right-wing a campaign as any Democrat in living memory" Mirkinson writes.
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I do believe that had Harris run the supposed lefty campaign that they [the hacks] have invented for her she would have won. I could be wrong of course. Who knows anything! But it has become clear that running as Republican-light does not do anything to pull in wayward Republican voters because they already have a party of their own called the Republicans... What their campaign did as best as I can tell is demoralize voters on the left and infrequent voters who might have been activated by promises to improve their lives materially and also – this is very important – by someone telling them repeatedly over and over that they plan to do so. You could even lie about it if you wanted to! Trump sure does. Yet they couldn't even bring themselves to do that.
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Every single person by default deserves a home and healthcare and an education and a job that pays them enough to live and enjoy leisure and equal rights and dignity and safety regardless of gender or race or birthplace and an end to the perpetual war machine and I'm so f*cking sick of being told this is radical by my supposed coalition partners.

Yep, I'm right there with him, swear words and all.

I don't think the the people in charge of the Democrats give even a tiny little bit of sh*t if working class people suffer, if the climate goes even further to crap, if we are in several wars and might get nuked, if the rich get richer, if taxes go up on the poor, if health care is not available for all, if access to abortion gets even further limited and all the rest they pretend to care about. I don't think they care if they lose, as long as the cash flow keeps coming and the power structure remains. And they certainly don't care if WE lose.

Listening Time!
I found out recently that the song Galway Girl, which is kind of an iconic Irish song now, was written by Steve Earle in 2000! Earle is an American country-western, rock, folk whatever singer. I was floored, because I love the song, and I really love Steve Earle's stuff, have since his very first album in 1986, but I missed this somehow!?! I didn't hear the song until I fell in love with the version done by Fiddler's Green years later. I thought it was a traditional folk song. Heh. What do I know? Enjoy listening and dancing to this great song!

Here's the Fiddler's Green Version:

Or a very recent live performance by Fiddler's Green at Shamrock Castle:

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