circus

"...that we may avoid erecting a numerous democracy..." john locke, from the fundamental constitutions of carolina____________"...they have directed the president be chosen by select bodies of electors to be deputed by the people for that express purpose: and they have committed the appointment of senators to the state legislatures. this mode has, in such cases, vastly the advantage of elections by the people in their collective capacity where the activity of party zeal, taking advantage of the supineness, the ignorance, and the hopes and fears of the unwary and uninterested, often places men in office by votes of a small proportion of the electors." federalist LXIV [john jay]_____ in other words when you turn the election into a circus there's a chance one of the clowns might win...john locke was the philosophical godfather of the constitution and jay was certainly not very confident of the "voice of the people" being used in anything resembling an intelligent manner as he sought bravely to limit the franchise...and the political season of 2016 may be a sort of vindication for him on that point...then again, the election results can only be as good as the caliber of candidates that are distilled out of the herd of whore politicians...even a cursory examination of the crop of characters the voters were burdened with last year should have been a indication that something was very wrong and that the results would end in a trip to the white house for the most venal...the current residents of the white house are at least transparent in their venality as they hawk the family brand shamelessly...the clinton venality was just as avaricious but kept under somewhat tighter cover...still it is illumination to remember that the clintons and trumps have been on very friendly terms for some time and the president ( pro tem ) publicly declared his respect for "that woman" after the electoral dust had settled...in short the elite is who have won here..it is the way the system is intended to work...anyone expecting anything but a corporate agenda with, perhaps, some populist cosmetics is delusional...wealth is in as much control as they ever were and talk is cheap...especially political verbiage...there is nothing new here...nothing at all.