How do we keep getting dragged into this electoral spectator sport?
Ah, elections…
Little more than a bare-knuckle boxing match. If you were to suddenly catch a glimpse of such a fight, you would see real blood, real punches, swollen lips, black eyes, and a final knockout.
It looks like a real spontaneous fight. But the match was planned, set up, with rules and parameters.
That’s an election. Except that it is shoved in all of our faces, while they lie and tell us it wasn’t a planned fight.
Not interested in seeing the blood and gore? Not interested in watching two people beat each other to a pulp? Well, you can turn off the boxing match, but good luck avoiding election coverage.
There wouldn’t be anything riding on the match if we weren’t all convinced to place bets on it. Now it matters. We’ve put down our wagers, we’ve added skin to the game, and now we care.
Some of what we have riding on the election is psychological. We have staked out a position, and right or wrong, and we want our side to win.
Somehow we think the majority will vindicate out beleifs, and make us feel more right… even if the last election did the opposite.
Ironically, an online poll shows that just 51% of Americans have faith in democracy. The slimmest majority… all that is required to maintain power over the minority.
Not discussed enough is the actual money industries have riding on the elections. Which contractors will be enriched with federal dollars? The military contractors? Those peddling carbon credits?
Will more money go to ICE or the EPA? Will workers be hired for federal prisons, or the IRS?
But these are all manufactured issues.
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