For when the two candidates spend all kinds of time and energy talking about shit that went on back in 1972, they are able to avoid the real issues of the day, the issues that affect most Americans now, not things that affected a select few back in the 1970's. That is exactly what the candidates want to do, focus on the distant past and ignore the future. Oh sure, their campaigns are all full of this rhetoric about plans for the future, saying how they represent the future while their opponent represents the past, but the reality of it is that both of them don't really represent the future at all, not if you define the future as something different than the present. For by focusing on the 1970's and other personal attacks, the candidates can obscure what they really stand for in terms of the future, like how that future is going to be any different from the present like they are promising. This is a very useful tactic in a Presidential campaign, because these campaigns are not that long at all. Everyone is saying that we are just heading into the real campaign now, and Election Day is now less than two months away, only like seven weeks away. That makes it easy for the two candidates to keep on bringing up 1972 and 1970 and so forth and forget to mention the current issues that will affect the people of today's America. Both candidates want to do just that so that no one will be able to figure out what they are really going to do once they get elected. The reason for that is because neither of these two dudes is really going to change anything in America substantially, they have no intention to, because that would be killing the golden goose for them. These dudes have profited immensely off of the inequities of the American system, so much so that they have themselves poised to be President for the next four years. But they know that they have to look like they are adversaries instead of partners in the whole corrupt system, so they go out and call each other names and make accusations about one another and stir up all this shit. They know that by doing this, that they can keep the media busy making scandals out of shit like campaign ads that talk about events from over 30 years ago, and that these will be the issues that will dominate the news coverage, not the substantive issues of today. That suits Bush and Kerry just fine, because it is much easier to get the American people all wrought up in smear campaigns and have them paying all their attention to unimportant nonsense rather than what is real. Just look at all the controversy over the Swift Boat shit, more Americans have been talking about that these last few weeks rather than the real issues, mainly because it is much easier for them to relate to this smear shit, like was Kerry really the war hero that he claims to be, and was Bush a slacker or did he serve, and is one of the candidates a lying motherfucker and so forth than it is for them to understand deficits and issues of fighting a huge war and so forth, at least that's what the politicians think. So, they give us all heavy doses of name calling and accusations and theatrics to obscure the real issues and things that we should be concerned about.
As I said before, this is all because both candidates are just two heads of the same beast, they are not any different from one another at all. No matter who gets elected, there will be no stop to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, no pause in the war on drugs, no halt in the skyrocketing incarceration rate, the poor will stay poor, and so forth. Nothing substantive is going to change come November 2nd, just as it has not changed on any Election day in the past. The candidates do not want people to know that, and if they keep on talking about issues all the time like they should, they are going to expose themselves. For if you listen closely to what the two camps are saying, there is not all that much difference between them. If they keep talking about things, eventually the people will catch on. So, they want to concentrate on name calling and mudslinging, because not only will it confuse the people ,it will also turn them off something fierce. People are already sick of this shit in the campaign, and there is to be no let-up of it anytime soon, so shortly, there will be countless Americans that will be totally turned off to the entire campaign, and they will tune it out completely. Once Election Day comes, these folks will be nowhere to be found, and that is exactly what The Establishment wants. Because despite all the propaganda that you are seeing around America these days about how everyone needs to register and then get out and vote, America is heading for another record low voter turnout this year, and Washington could not be happier about that. The one thing that The Establishment wants to do is to do away with these pesky elections every four years, when they have to put on this big charade for the people and all that an dpretend this and that, they just want to forget about all that bullshit about the people electing their leaders, they just want to pick them themselves. So they have been trying to undermine and sabotage the electoral process for many years now. Since American voter turnout os historically so low all the time, they are a lot closer to that then people may think. One of the ways that they have gotten us here is through the use of smear campaigns and attack shit like what we are seeing in this campaign. Time and time again, politicians have used these sort of tactics in a campaign, and time and time again they have gotten zero out of it, except to alienate ever more Americans from the process. Now, if what the politicians say about wanting everyone to participate in things was true, this would be about the stupidest thing that they could do. Year after year, they chase more and more people away from things, all the while claiming that they don't want that. Since they never seem to stop this counterproductive bullshit, it is painfully obvious that what they are really doing is trying to drive as many people away from things as they possibly can because they don't want the people having any say in things anymore. When you look at the low voter turnouts, it looks as if the American people don't want to have a say in things anymore, and that has been fueling this attitude of The Establishment quite a bit. The last election in 2000 was a huge step in that direction, with the American people having it shoved in their faces that they do not really elect the President anyway, that he is essentially appointed by a chosen few and the will of the people is secondary to that. This time around, they are turning this into a vicious smear campaign that is sure to disgust untold voters and keep even more people at home. The two candidates are happy to oblige in this, as they are not the enemies and rivals that they make themselves out to be, but rather partners and colleagues in the whole Establishment scene. They know that they still have to go through the charade at least to some point, as the electoral process is still the same as it has been, so they go and call one another names and and bring up shit from the 1970's and make a big stink about things and call that playing hardball. That's what's going on in this campaign, not the bullshit that everyone is being told.
The American people should be outraged over all of this, after all, this electoral process is supposed to be one of the things that makes America the greatest country alive and so forth, and to have Washington and Mr. Businessman trying to subvert it like that should be considered high crimes and treasons. However, the American people seem to be happy to go along with this scene, as they never say anything about it. They never say anything abou tit because they have the same shit drilled into their heads about this as they have drilled into their heads about the war effort, that if they even question anything, that they are being unpatriotic and a traitor and so forth. That is something that keeps Americans in line more than anything else. For the American people have been raised to feel that the most important thing that they can do is to be loyal to America with no questions asked, and that they have to be on the winning team so to speak, as if it is the World Cup or something like that. The Establishment has taken that mentality and used it for their own purposes, and rather successfully as well. When they talk all this shit about playing hardball between now and November 2nd, they are talking about turning as many people off of the process as they can, not campaigning against one another. Smear campaigns are particularly effective at this, as they leave bad tastes in people's mouths for a long time afterwards. They help reinforce the opinion of politicians as lying fucks that are only out for themselves, and are sleazier than the worst porno star could ever hope to be. The politicians do not care that is what so many think of them, they want that, because they consider the people unworthy of having a say in what they do anyway. They want the people to go and fuck off and leave everything to them and them alone, and just obey. That is the hardball that the politicians play, not that other namby-pamby nonsense. Neither Bush or Kerry is going to really lose anything come November 2nd. Yes, one of them will not be able to live in the White House until January 2009, but that dude is not about to be cast out on the street or anything like that. He will have a comfortable retirement that will be on the American taxpayer's bill and want for nothing. All his needs will be taken care of for the rest of his life however long that may be. So, there should be no tears shed for the "loser" on November 2nd, as there is no loser, unlike the World Cup. The only real losers will be the American people. For no matter who wins on that day, they will get nothing changed at all, Just four more years of the same. So all the name calling and mudslinging and accusations that we will see these next seven weeks or so is nothing more than a grand game, the true Greatest Show On Earth, Ringling Brothers has nothing on that, it will be nothing more than a smear campaign directed not at a particular candidate, they will just be the front for it all, but a smear campaign directed at the American people, one designed to get them turned off to the electoral process in a big way and make them stay the fuck away from it from now on. That is who they are really playing hardball against now, not one another, that is softball at its finest. The hardball is saved for where it counts the most, for the American people, to shove them out of the picture totally and make them a non-factor in things and make their country just another dictatorship, albeit one where the people live more comfortably, but really have no stake in society. November 2nd is just going to be another big step in that direction, a step to the future of America, but that future is destined to be just sad reruns of the past that perpetuate a totally corrupted, fucked up cycle.