This Is Only a Test or The Hostage Situation (anybody else feel like The Gimp?)

  Every 2-4 years if one is a member of a marginalized group in the US (person of color, LGBT, living below the poverty line, women) one gets a view behind the curtain and is shown what is the real situation regarding power in this society. The Real Situation regarding power in this country is that to be a member of a marginalized group is to be held in a hostage situation. Electoral year politics reminds you of how you are held captive by the at times idiotic whims of the majority (those with the guns and the explosives). Headlines like this and this and this remind you that your life in this society can at times have the consistency and logic of a leaf on the breeze. WTF is "legitimate rape", every woman and most men on the planet want to know! How the hell in 2012 can you believe slavery was a good thing? Jim Crow was not much pf a party! And how can 90 minutes of lying so maniacal,   The Joker would not be amused,  make a majority of US citizens forget the previous 2 year's worth of gafftastic assholery on the part of the sweaty plutocrat from Massachusetts and put him back in contention in national polls?! Yes Obama blew it! Yes he sucked! Yes he should have prepped better or whatever reason there was for him to stagger in the home stretch. But damn really? Romney remains Romney and how does one forget that fact in a night? When did A=A stop being true? So this is the hostage situation, where fairly reasonable people are held in thrall to a majority population wherein more people recognize Michael Jackson as the composer of Billie Jean than recognize the Bill of Rights as a part of The Constitution of the US. Oh for the sweet release of Stockholm Syndrome!

                                                              Hostages to "Democracy"

I return you now to your regularly scheduled blog.

Update: Ill Doctrine nails it.. His eyes feel like my soul.