When I was a kid, US Presidential campaigns, y'know,
began, and, a mercifully-few months later,
ended. It was the way of things.
Not anymore.
"The election in question," if you may remember, will happen
next year, not "in six weeks." Nevertheless, by the current activities of the American press, you would never know it. The polls are already being taken, and the winners and the losers are already being called . . . and the multiple
(hundreds of ...) millions of Dollars are already being spent.
"Waitaminit ... what could all of this possibly have to do with an election?!"
Answer:
nothing!
Stop and think about it ... just like
media people do:
- "During any general election, candidates are going to spend millions billions of US Dollars."
- "Exactly what are they going to spend 'all that money' for?!"
- "Du-u-u-u-uuh... They're gonna give it to us!"
- "So, let's get started!!"
Yessirree... the Media Moguls know a good thing when they see it, and so-far their "just the
first" step is to extend their Christmas Season™ to
two years. Let's hold "a debate" years in advance. Let's
sell "poll results" to the highest bidder
(and earnestly hope that the voters ... i-f there be any ... will still instinctively treat them as Gospel). (
And hope that
"Uncle Walter" is not spinning furiously in his grave.)
Y'know, maybe it's time that we re-think the
entire "political process." Maybe we can very-effectively "crowd-source"
all of
CSPAN. Maybe we don't need(!) "Capitol Hill" anymore. And, if we
do decide to retain these things, maybe every single Member Of Congress
(and(!) Justice of the Supreme Court) should go into the job knowing that their tenure will be just as potentially-specious and potentially-fleeting as "fame on
American Idol."
Hell . . . why
don't we "re-imagine Government?" After all, the obviously-flawed system that we
(Americans ...) have so-far been living with was cooked-up in a very hot room ... in summertime ... in Philadelphia ... with
no air-conditioning ...
... ...
Maybe
"it's time for a change" should finally graduate from "media-inc® suffused political rhetoric™" and
actually(!) (gasp!!), after nearly three hundred years, enter: "The Twenty-
First Century."
Just sayin' ...
