November 7th, 2020 -- by Bacchus
No More Wicked Witch
At last, 1974 has come again, to everyone’s great relief. Our long national nightmare is over:
Now, let’s have a carefully-curated bit of singing, dancing, and striptease, by some of the people who have the most to celebrate:
That’s it. It’s over. Wootsies, y’all.
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Congratulations from t’other side of t’pond.
Those of us standing on our heads in Australia are sleeping Much better this weekend!
It won’t really be over until we reach some sort of national consensus about our democratic institutions. The orange tantrum may be exiting the stage, but the next would be dictator might not be so obviously flawed.
About 46% of the voting public believes it’s OK to separate children from parents as punishment, to investigate political opponents with government funds, to personally profit from positions in government, to lie, to cheat, to abuse women, and to debase science and facts. They are waiting for their next leader.
All true, OldDad. But I won’t apologize for celebrating interim victories. It’s not like they’ve been coming along very often lately!
tl:dnr – A strong majority of Conservative politicians are shittier than their Progressive counterparts, and huge numbers of rusted-on Conservative voters support them in spite of their many and often public failings to actually match their words with actions.
The book “The Righteous Mind: How good people are divided by politics and religion” posits that many people just Are Conservatives, and will vote for a Conservative candidate because some combination of their biology and environment makes them that way. Sadly the Conservative side of politics seems to more reliably attract corrupt or horribly misguided people (vis today’s Australian 4 Corners investigation into politicians, mostly Conservative ones, being horrible around women in all kinds of ways, even though they Say they’re religious and all about traditional values and families). So the people who are driven to vote Conservative get really shitty options, because too few regular people get involved in politics (so many people have to commute huge distances, or their lives are otherwise filled with non-important tasks, by choice or otherwise) so we get a bunch of politicians who aren’t actually held to proper standards.
@Justin Sounds like perhaps I should run as a Conservative candidate, just to give them a choice? That might well explain why the United States has continued to shift so far to that side, as compared to most nations.
We haven’t started talking about how Rupert Murdoch (Australia’s gift to the UK, USA and ourselves) and his influence has pushed countries where he owns a lot of papers/radio/tv channels to the right. He’s very adept at getting people to selectively ignore things right in front of their faces and focus on the waving hand. Also the huge amounts of money in US politics to be made by cozying up to mega-billionaires with a short-sighted focus in winning cash/dick-measuring contents means that to win, you’ve got to sell large parts of your soul to get enough air time.
I remember in 2000, the election coverage remarked that it was very easy to figure out who was going to win in any particular race House or Senate race, you just looked at who’d raised more money.