Finally, Picking the Right Fight
Even though it is too late to win
With many battles to choose from, how do we choose? The short answer is we don’t because it is considered too complex for us, so we have only the pretense of a choice.
That is the reef that our ship of state runs aground on repeatedly. There was a time in US history when policy platforms were argued, voted on in party conventions, and matched to presidential candidates. It has been a long time since that happened, and perhaps it never happened.
No one seems to miss it, although that is the primary purpose of even vaguely democratic government systems. Presidential candidates have replaced policies with issues, most of which are irrelevant.
As we have long known, there is only one party in America, the corporatist property party, with two factions. The factions were getting confused, but they have been simplified to avoid collapse. One faction is the feel-good faction, and the other specializes in hate.
The issues are the same but presented as positive rather than negative. The old trick can explain this: heads, I win, and tails, you lose. But we have constantly lost for decades — only the corporatist elite wins.
The factions have been completely reduced to a high school sports tournament. The winners get…
