It's My Rule Never to Lose My Temper Until It Would Be Detrimental to Keep It. Sean O'Casey

I have ignored the other candidates because other than Romney they ain’t going nowhere, although I had hoped we would have “the devil is in the details” Bachman to kick around for a bit longer.

I am not going to get into a back and forth on tax policy. Everyone knows the system is rigged to service special interests. My bottom line is that this gets better when we find some way to wring the obscene amount of money out of the electoral system. I would love to see the OWS crowd start banging that drum.

As long as Koch and others can find malleable boobs to carry their water arguing that dollars equals speech there will always be Herman Cain’s around. But the debilitating corruption in the system, which has to a great extent created this hard-right hard-left world we now operate in has affected both parties in very sinister ways.

Maybe it will never get better, I don’t know. I keep watching for that solitary figure, that political figure that shies from neither the poor or the well to do. We hoped Obama would be that leader that would make us want sacrifice and get us on a more correct path.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?” George Bernard Shaw wrote it, but Bobby Kennedy ran on it. What did we get? Two parties arguing over what levels to subsidize the out of control conglomerate of insurance companies and the medical establishment. 50 million uninsured and the dems want to solve it by giving the insurance companies, that already exert too much control, even more power and wealth while the other party essentially says f*** them, offering no real solution to the crisis. Good things were in the bill I won’t argue that, but the real deal is how the lobbyists will mold the final execution—IF we ever get that far—and as we can see with the with the reregulation of Wall Street money talks and B*S* walks.

But I digress…

Cain has engaged in religious bigotry, proposed a tax policy which has a catchy name, but which everyone knows (including the entire republican field) would further exacerbate the transfer of wealth in America (just a huge problem in the US and around the world for that matter), and because he has shamelessly shilled for wealthiest and most powerful and had the unmitigated balls to blame the country’s problems on the unemployed, immigrants and so forth. He is not new. He is just the last in line. I didn’t like it in 1980 and I sure as hell don’t like it now.

The elements of this story are imaginary, but we all know there are millions like this. There is an unemployed mother of two. She has two kids and is trying to raise them well. Every day she makes decisions between rent & food, maybe medicine for an asthmatic boy, or clothes for a teenage daughter trying to find her way through the first year of middle school. The rich f*** millionaire that arrogantly sits back and says defiantly on national TV that her struggles are her fault, and that the fat bastards on Wall Street had nothing to do with her circumstances or millions of others with similar stories, deserves all the outrage any of us can muster. His statement is wholly and completely immoral.

The debates have shown the dark underbelly of the body politic. We have seen boos for a gay soldier, religious right nut-jobs cheering for the execution of 200-plus in Texas, and people shouting out that a hypothetical guy with no health insurance deserves to die if he gets sick and cannot pay for a doctor. None of the candidates, most especially Romney have acquitted themselves particularly well, each time standing in stony silence or claiming they couldn’t hear what was said, never once challenging the thuggery behind it all. And now we have this figure joking about executing desperate aliens on the border with electric fencing. Actually he said he was joking, but did want the electrified fence.

Yet they all court the religious right, god fearing people who are so happy with an eye for an eye, but ignore the teachings to feed the hungry, and care for the least among us. I am not particularly religious, but those on the religious right that claim all this in the name of some distorted God are neither religious nor right.

$5 bil is proposed for disaster relief. Now they argue for fiscal restraint, but a few years ago they were authorizing 5.0 bil a week to prosecute two wars, one of which was certainly engaged in for wholly unethical reasons.

So yeah, I’m spitting mad. At the moment Cain is the flag bearer for this whole parade of sycophants and criminals, so he gets all my bile. To speak to that with moderation- to me at least- his cowardly. Perhaps we cannot change all this, but we start by calling that which is immoral exactly what it is. I hope the bastard lives to be a hundred, I could care less, but I oppose everything he and those like him stand for.