Opinion/Editorial
THE MOMENTOUS MID-TERM ELECTIONS
The fever pitch has never been raised to a higher level by both the mass media ‘news’ outlets and the wild, near farcical political ads placed by today’s candidates for office on both sides of the aisle. Life threatening, democracy dissolving, civil war warnings and so many more threats are all presented as likely looming disasters depending upon how the elections go. The mass media, like the oil and gas companies, have been making billions by helping to create the ‘misery of the masses,’ one with their physically held and distributed products for transportation held in virtual monopoly and other with communications products affecting all of America’s population, also held inside a virtual monopoly.
What is going to happen as a result of the coming elections?
Not much, if recent history is any kind of a guide. Donald Trump, the absolutely wildest card of a president was elected to office and served for four years. Not much, except talk, changed in the country or in the world because of his leadership. Boris Johnson, in Great Britain, imitated Trump’s mannerisms and style to run that country the same way. Except for doom and gloom reports of their version of our mass media, nothing much happened there either. Ukraine has happened. Another ‘sort of’ war, although if you live inside its relatively small borders, you might not think the phrase ‘sort of’ applies. In reality, however, there’s been no real war since WWII. Not Korea, not Vietnam, not Iraq, Algeria, Syria, Afghanistan or now the Ukraine. The world’s success in so many areas help prevent a return to world-wide conflict. Human beings, once reaching a certain level of survival and comfort do not want to lose the gain of those great benefits. Not for themselves, their families, or their friends. The likelihood of civil war blowing up across the nation is so minimal it only belongs a word of mention on media outlets like Fox, which is a questionable place to find any shred of real news at all about anything.
All politics is local. Who is chosen to run things and make the rules is a very good description about what politics is all about. Ron Johnson runs again, after swearing he would not, like Mayor Bloomberg before him in New York. That he helped reduced teachers and students to mediocre vestiges of what they once were under he and Governor Walker is all but forgotten. His support of Foxconn and the financial drubbing the state, Racine, Pleasant Prairie, and Kenosha took has been set aside. Under Johnson’s leadership with Walker, once again, Wisconsin lost its chance to have high speed rail, a project that was already budgeted and paid for by the federal government. Johnson is opposed to Social Security, Medicare and having any kind of minimum wage. He also rabidly opposes abortion for any reason at all. It really doesn’t matter who this man is running against. A vote for Ron Johnson is simply a confidential sign of celebrating a deliberately vapid form of stupidity. Getting Johnson to continue by voting for him is like having a pain in your right elbow and taking the “Johnson” solution; using a ballpeen hammer to crush your right big toe in order to get rid of that shoulder irritation.
But the nation is polarized. It isn’t polarized on policies. The mass media has been able to convert elections into popularity contests, and the most outrageous acting candidates get almost all of the attention. Donald Trump (obviously an unannounced candidate for the 24 presidency), for example, continues to get much more mass media attention as an ex-president than the real president gets.
Billionaires are also the rage today. Tim Michaels, Ron Johnson, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Soros, Gates, Bezos and so many more. That their self-removal from real society leaves these monster money people, and after only a very short period, without almost any sense of what’s really going on in the society they are supposedly a part of, is extremely evident. But this evidence is set aside, as the mass media and the cooperating public continues to believe almost everything they say. There will be no civil war as a result of this election however, as this monster culture killing action would destroy the billionaires too, nor will there be huge losses in public programs or any of that.
No matter who wins what races, the show will continue to go on. Barnum and Baily and Ringling Brothers had it right so many years ago but simply could not grow big enough with the communication tools they had to take over culture. That’s not so anymore. Tim Michaels came out on Tuesday and said he would never send in democratic electors to the Congress if he was governor. What the hell?
