QuoteThe hand-wringing has begun. How can American citizens vote to take Congressional control away from the Democratic Party and hand it back to the Republican Party, the very organization that ran the country into the ground during the decade and a half when it controlled either one or both chambers of Congress? How can voters be so blind to their own self-interest?
Actually, the answer isn't that difficult to figure out. Voting either against one's own interest or, alternatively, for candidates who do not really represent one's interests but are promoted as being somewhat less cavalier in their disregard for the principles of representative democracy, is now standard operating procedure. This confusion is yet another reflection of the triumph of Stage-4 corporate consumer capitalism...................................
The American lumpenproletariat once again does the gimp.