Sad and Infuriated

In this post I provide no link to another's contribution. This is my own and personal contribution.

Supposedly reputable polls have recently reported that McCain and Obama are either tied or close enough in the responses of those polled to be tied , statisfically speaking.

That not only saddems me but infuriates me.

It is becoming more and more apparent that Americans who respond to polls have not yet let go of their inherent prejudices toward those who are different from them. In this case different in race.

In the face of the Cheney/Bush "fuck you" approach to anyone who opposes them I had hoped that the public outcry would have been more vocal. I had hoped that the public would not have bought into the testosterone based instincts to which Cheney has appealed, and would have reviled him for what he is.

Apparently Cheney is correct in his assessment of the intellectual level, or lack thereof, of our citizenry. He has successfully played on the testosterone realities, or wishes, of those who are always willing to blame others for their failures, who can easily, with cunning, be manipulated to play out their frustrations emotionally in favor of those who knew how to inflame them.

When Obama brought this up recently he was confronting the problem of differences, and played into the hands of the Rovian advisors who have told McCain that he has to go on the attack. No surprise there. Once he took them onboard his
Straightalk Express he committed himself to their form of Straighttalk,
Straight as a euphemism for attack, hang the cost

History has it that voters seldom elect a president and a Congress from just one political party.

The American people, consciosly or subconciously are skeptical of a government which can do whatever it wants, without checks and balances.

I think it is likely that the voters will elect a sufficinent number of democrats in both house of Congress to offset a presidential veto. I also think it is likely that the voters will elect McCain president, based on his appeal to their nationalistic feelings. I think he will be given the benefit of the doubt because he appeals to the "Keep it simple, black and white rational with which a sizeable majority of people identify.

When George W. Bush said, "I don't do nuance", he spoke to all of those who needed someone to tell them that whatever they were suffering from, it wasn't their fault. That was and still is the genius of the Rovian manipulation of the vulnerable.