probabilityfields

well, school sucks still. i haven’t posted in a while nor have i done much of anything else but school, work, drunk. i did purchase two new cheap-ass microphones, a tiny guitar amp, and a cheap-ass? preamp. so i feel pretty good about that, but i still haven’t sat down to learn my pirated recording software (don’t tell anyone!). hmm…guess that’s what sundays are for.

So in the news: obviously everyone in America (70% at least and that’s all we need) thinks this Terry Schiavo situation is complete bullshit. Everyone, even the GOP, knows that Tom Delay is an asshole, that Bush just does what the Christian Right tells him, and that the Democrats will seize this opportunity to take back the mantle of reason in America <record scratch> Whoa, nope!

What’s going on here? Well, like it or not, the Repubs have the Dems by the proverbial balls; they have for a while. If Hillary Clinton were to come out against any attempt to save Terri Schiavo then she would be decimated in her coming bid for president. And likewise if she had gone the other way.

The Republicans on the other hand can pursue this travesty and inspire fervor in Christians (conveniently around Easter time!), while a majority of the voting public that does disagree with them will still support them because it’s the overall platform they like, not specific cases. (In fact most Republican voters seem to ignore all specific details to focus instead on ideas built by masterful rhetoric and well-timed gestures).

The average voter says, “Oh well, those Republicans have to please their base, but if it was me in that bed I’d rather be shot in the head. But hey, it’s not me, so it doesn’t matter. God bless Bush for being steadfast in his beliefs, unlike those pussy-footin’ Democrats. Liberal scum!”

We can’t comprehend any overall Democratic strategy because anything resembling that would already be undermined by the self-interest of ambitious power players like Senator Clinton. A unifying vision for the Democrats will never come about until either the Republicans really screw up (not likely) or the Democrats with stars in their eyes come back down to earth.

Hopefully Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has made a similar diagnosis (doctor pun) <disjointed joke>Bill Frist actually diagnosed the Party as “alive and well” after watching a video of Howard Dean eating breakfast</disjointed joke>. I see no way yet for Dean to succeed in unifying the Party without radical changes, and I don’t see radical changes ever happening.

As for me, the Democratic Party’s pathetic attempts at playing a game that is already designed to beat them is getting nauseating. It’s time to seriously start talking about a third party that negates everything about the other two parties. We need a new Ross Perot, one who’s nothing like Ross Perot. Someone who can speak directly to the people and who’s got nothing to lose for doing it. If the Democrats whither away into obscurity, it will be their own fault. It may be that the only way to save America from the GOP is to kill their whipping boy.