Here I am
Stuck in the Middle with You
By Michael LeStrange
What's up with today's politics, eh? As I write this, the
house of representatives has passed the most sweeping campaign finance reform in
decades. Both parties of the United States are cowering in fear. I
must say I'm both amused and bemused.
As anyone who has read anything on this site has heard us
preach,
money == power
therefore the only reason campaign finance reform is happening is because of
our good friend Enron.
Almost every single elected representative, and almost all appointed
executive officials of this administration has received a shit load of money
from our favorite corporation.
So, I have to be gleeful, as the only way this legislation would have passed
is if:
- we had term limits
- we had a corporate scandal of epic proportions
Now, you can't ethically wish for the conjunction of these two events.
I think that when you believe that term limits are a good idea, you have a
really shitty system.
It's no surprise that money rules. It's only surprising
that people seem so naive... Maybe it's only surprising that I'm naive.
But that's the wonder of being limited to this existence.
Everyone is naive about something. Thanks to Gödel, we're not omniscient.
Sometimes we even conveniently forget that our impossibly slinky black dress has
failed to hide our esthetically pleasing mammary gland.
But anything for a buck, I suppose. If you've got it,
flaunt it.
The point being that when politicians are embarrassed about
taking money - so much so that they're forced to vote on the matter - things
have really gotten out of hand. It's like a wave crashing down, tracking
some complex waveform we can't discern. The pigs have been feeding fat and
even they are embarrassed at what's been going on.
Watching those trying to
apologize for the behavior would be almost comedic if it weren't so tragic.
I mean, COME ON. This is simply Herculean in the effort required to pull
some justification for the way things are.
The best you can come up with is
"we're all just so fucked
up that if this is the worst things get we should consider ourselves lucky"
Personally, I only find it so tragic that it must be a complete
joke. It's like a complete farce. I mean, really. No one could
really be this stupid, right?
Thank
god we haven't found any other alien life out there, as we'd have been
conquered the moment they offered us shiny beads.
Wait a minute. Maybe we've already been sold out.
February 18, 2002
