Don't Get Too Excited

[poliphilo]

In order to have a run at the Presidency of the USA you'll have had to eat a lot of crow and tread on a lot of fingers. Obama, Clinton, Romney, McCain- these are not nice people. 

And all of them- long since- will have ceased to have much to do with people like us- that is to say people without power or the hunger for power. The people they mostly consort with are those they can do deals with, those who can give them money or deliver support.

That's the nature of politics.

Whoever gets in they'll be beholden to the same baronial powers, in hock to the same military-industrial complex. It'll be nice to have a change of face at the top- and if that face turns out to be black or female it'll be a cheering indication of how social attitudes are changing- but that's all it'll be.

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[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

The one thing in this entire process that gives me some degree of hope is that it looks as though the Evangelical Right has lost a great deal of its political influence. It's still a player, to be sure (it's the only thing keeping Huckabee in the race), but even in the GOP you can see it no longer has the stranglehold on power it once did.