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Originally Posted by hevusa
what a crap election..
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But Prop 19 discussion aside, you are 100% correct. This is why I am a monarchist, honestly!
Elections are one of the highest forms of political theater. They are not real, they are entirely scripted, contrived and deceptive forms of expression, communication and entertainment. They do not necessarily determine political outcomes, rather they serve as opportunities for socio-political manipulation through such psychological tools such as group think, peer pressure, mass hysteria, inherent tendencies towards the syntonic, and the general yielding to authority which most people do, even if it simply misperceived..
For example here in california, Jerry Brown and the DEM nazis won over Meg Whitman and the GOP fascists right? Wrong.
We have all been manipulated through media, through group think, through phone banks and cadreism where we believe the misinformation.
Folks believe the Democrats will save them, so they go with them, but in reality the California DEMS are in the pocket of the prisons, the cops and the unions, and not necessarily any of the interests of the people. Essentially, California has the philosophy of "lock em all up and let God sort em out" and quite a sizable percentage jobs and investment are in relation to law enforcement and incarceration. This is why they love the Drug War, they get a lot of bullshit funding and authority and ability to incarcerate people and literally make money off the head count, and in the process justify their own existence which in fact is quite redundant to say the least.
Did the Republicans really lose? No, they still got a lot of seats in the state and local level, they still have a powerful lobby for greedy, cut-throat businessmen.. Meg Whitman and the GOP made an investment in clout, and they got it! Whitman and Carly were just a rally, to get the pro-business interests mobilized, and over-all in the national election over $4 BILLION was spent, about 50-50 on each side. I'd say the GOP rabble-rousers were just instigating the Dems to equally over spend and saturate the country with all this brainwashing.. Look at Prop 24 passing, now businesses still get their ridiculous tax breaks here, and while prop 23 was shot down, the oil industry still pays the lowest taxes in california than out of any other 49 states in US! The rich will keep on getting richer..
Elections are a theater designed to get us all in pseudo-involvement and to continue to believe in the hype, the myth, and to let them continue to control us and exploit us and put us in prison.. fuck that!
Now Californians naively believe that at least they tried, and at least some of their voice was heard, but in reality the election does not determine the outcome, it is only a kind of litmus test for the government to see the social climate and how far they can push us, and also for the government to continue to manipulate us into the systematized deception that we have some, any, kind of democracy..
the election was indeed a bunch of crap, but they all are..