07-07-2024, 11:43 PM
(07-07-2024, 06:42 PM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote: You speak of "theater" frequently when it comes to politics. I choose to see it a different way...money and power.
These "idiots" may love the limelight, but they are "idiots" none the less. "Thespians", as you have called them...they are nothing of the sort! They are merely greedy, needy, "little people" who don't have any other existence in our society other than politics...they are PARASITES! Purely, and simply...PARASITES! Evil vermin who have no mission greater than bettering themselves. This isn't about the "show", this is about "THEM", and ONLY "them". Period.
I've grown tired of this notion there is some sort of "theater" going on here, or the notion there are any "thespians" at all behind it. Simply put, these people at the forefront of politics today are CRIMINALS...every...last...one...of...them! Period!!
Okay, I'll admit something here...I like Trump more than I like Biden because I believe Trump is one person....Biden is not even real, he's multiple things; Biden is the BORG! So yes, I will vote for the "lesser to two evils", BUT in this case, it truly IS the lesser of two truly "EVILS".
You have a choice. You can choose ultimate stupidity, and not knowing who you are really selecting as the leader of the strongest nation in the free world, OR, you can at least elect someone you can touch, someone you can impeach. You can't do this with Biden. Why? Because he's not REAL, he just isn't! Biden is a puppet, and someone "else" is pulling Biden's strings....someone YOU did NOT elect!
I suppose it's tiresome to hear me characterize the political 'arena' as theater again and again.
But it comes from my hypothesis that most popular politicians primarily exist to convince voters to vote for them. The party is all about 'support' whether it be informed or otherwise... and lately it seems it's mostly otherwise. I mean, the political place holder is there so people can 'relate' to something other than lofty thoughts or ill-conceived ideals. They are selected by the party expressly to make you think they are "one of us" (or at least "just like us.") That they "understand" and agree with all those things we cherish, and they oppose whatever we reject as a group... (otherwise who would vote 'for them?')
In that regard, they are actors (just like thespians) who follow "direction" and perform "on stage." What you "see" is what they want you to report to others, always. They have "prestige" just like entertainers do... and they "sell" support for their party, (their narrative.) Voters consume them. Like a product. I also suppose that some of them actually 'believe' in something, although I wouldn't 'guess' what that might be.
Parties don't "want" specific people for the jobs they fill... they just want jobs filled with "their" people. People who will "follow" their policy suggestions, promote "their" favorite programs, protect "their" preferred policies, and attack those they reject. "The people" are not in the equation outside of appearances.
"Ideologies" as important as they may be, are are used as window dressing for the show. The people ultimately in 'charge' aren't focused on ideology, they are focused on a script provided by the 'director' and 'producers.' ("It's a club, and [we] ain't in it." - GC)
The parties are broken. They represent no one you or I know. They are like a toxic frat house culture... akin to Hollywood.
I'll match your admission..., I can't think of a single reason to prefer Biden over Trump. But I had thought Biden was a joke candidate, having made his bones as a plagiarist and a liar back in his early days... he was a running gag on mainstream media for years... then the media did an 'about face' because of TDS. Whereas Trump, to me, has always had the appeal of being a "not-politician." But that doesn't mean he couldn't be just as much a "performer" as other politicians... It was just a club that 'he wasn't in." (Clearly, he was unwelcome by many 'members.')
Criminality, I prefer to attribute on a case-by-case basis. It's certainly in the mix. But I can't say that they are all criminals, or to what degree each of them are or aren't. We may never know the full truth, since they protect the "stage" as well as themselves. But the most frustrating part, to me, is the fact that there are people of the "not elected" variety that make the most significant trouble for us.
