As predicted, American voters, at least that relatively
small group that showed up to actually vote, elected the craziest inmates to
run the asylum. Lunatics like Wisconsin Governor Scott “Koch addict” Walker, Florida
Governor Rick “White-brother-from-another-planet” Scott and Senator Mitch
“Yertle-the-Turtle” McConnell are all given back their respective jobs. And
then there is the new crop of crazies headed by Iowa Republican Senator Joni
Ernst, who made a campaign commercial where she linked her experience at
castrating pigs to her desire to “cut the pork” in Washington. Iowans must have
loved it.
As many others are pointing out, the electoral system in
America is broken. From the money tsunami unleashed by Citizens United to
gerrymandering to voter ID laws that disenfranchise minorities to hackable
computerized voting machines, every election is now suspect and less a
representation of the people’s will than a slave auction for white
billionaires.
And paramount in this particular election was the issue of
Obama hatred and racism. Primarily a red state mid-term, we saw how
successful Republicans were at demonizing the President and shifting the
blame for America’s problems from themselves to the “uppity negro” in
Washington. Aided by a cowardly mainstream media, Republican candidates
effectively used their code words, winks and nudges to stoke the racial hatred
lying just beneath the surface of many white voters.
One rare bright spot was in my own state of Minnesota where
we reelected a Democratic governor and sent Al Franken back to the Senate. I
don’t envy Al because he is going to have his work cut out for him as one of a
minority of sane voices trying to be heard amid the wailing, babbling patients
of the Capital Hill Asylum.
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Not to mention so many of the so-called democratic candidates were so insipid that they couldn't raise enough votes to overcome the republican crazies that got elected. Capital Hill will indeed resemble American Horror's first season.
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