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Like many of you, I have been enjoying the recent Democrat debates mainly as comedy. Taking them seriously is also recommended... But only if you are a fan of horror.
These debates are part of something that will dominate the news cycle for the next 17 months, and which will also involve the Republican Party, the whole of America and the rest of the World.
This thing is guaranteed to take up a lot of humanity's collective attention and brain power, as many of us will get sucked into various "hot topics" and "controversies" connected with the election from time to time. Many if not all of these will naturally turn out to be transient or irrelevant, and will just disappear down the news chute and be forgotten in a relatively short time.
For this reason, the best way to conceptualise the election is as a kind of mental spam that will stop most of us thinking about more significant and personally relevant things to some degree. The correct response to spam is clearly to bin it—not to read it, pore over every detail, and argue about it long into the night.
But the election is not really the sort of thing that can be totally ignored. We need to keep a little marker on the map to know what and where it is. This is analogous to actual spam, where its best to know what forms it takes so that we don't suddenly find ourselves corresponding with a gentleman in Lagos about the fortune he is trying to move to our bank account.
So what should we bear in mind?
The key point of the whole thing seems to be to avoid representing the American people. Most so-called demographic systems run on this principle, but the American political system has honed it to a fine art, with two parties that have—as the meme at the top of the page shows—found entirely different countries from America to represent with the votes and the taxes of ordinary Americans voters.
Yes, it really is as simple as that: the Dems are the "Mexico Party," something obvious in the debates, with all the candidates more of less dedicating themselves to open borders; while the GOP is the "Israel Party," as the present rumblings for war with Iran demonstrate.
Right now the Dem candidates are competing with each other to establish who is the most credibly Mexo- or Hispano-phile. Occasionally they get distracted by issues that don't fit into this paradigm, like Tulsi Gabbard's concerns over US foreign policy and imperialism or Corey Booker's attempt to push the reparations narrative. As far as the Dems are concerned, it's too bad Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't running, as we could then just skip over all the faux Hispanophiles and get to the real deal.
As for the GOP, there will be no need for debates to find the most credibly Israelophile among them, as the Jewish and Christian Zionists who dominate the party have pretty much got their man in the top slot already.
Now, with these salient facts in place, you can just ignore most of what happens over the next 17 months. In fact "hot issues" of the passing moment can safely be tuned out as irritating foreground noise, allowing the soothing BGM hum of American politics to drone on in the background like a TV set with the volume turned way down. The key thing will be to not to pay too much attention. I know I won't.
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These debates are part of something that will dominate the news cycle for the next 17 months, and which will also involve the Republican Party, the whole of America and the rest of the World.
This thing is guaranteed to take up a lot of humanity's collective attention and brain power, as many of us will get sucked into various "hot topics" and "controversies" connected with the election from time to time. Many if not all of these will naturally turn out to be transient or irrelevant, and will just disappear down the news chute and be forgotten in a relatively short time.
For this reason, the best way to conceptualise the election is as a kind of mental spam that will stop most of us thinking about more significant and personally relevant things to some degree. The correct response to spam is clearly to bin it—not to read it, pore over every detail, and argue about it long into the night.
But the election is not really the sort of thing that can be totally ignored. We need to keep a little marker on the map to know what and where it is. This is analogous to actual spam, where its best to know what forms it takes so that we don't suddenly find ourselves corresponding with a gentleman in Lagos about the fortune he is trying to move to our bank account.
So what should we bear in mind?
The key point of the whole thing seems to be to avoid representing the American people. Most so-called demographic systems run on this principle, but the American political system has honed it to a fine art, with two parties that have—as the meme at the top of the page shows—found entirely different countries from America to represent with the votes and the taxes of ordinary Americans voters.
Yes, it really is as simple as that: the Dems are the "Mexico Party," something obvious in the debates, with all the candidates more of less dedicating themselves to open borders; while the GOP is the "Israel Party," as the present rumblings for war with Iran demonstrate.
Right now the Dem candidates are competing with each other to establish who is the most credibly Mexo- or Hispano-phile. Occasionally they get distracted by issues that don't fit into this paradigm, like Tulsi Gabbard's concerns over US foreign policy and imperialism or Corey Booker's attempt to push the reparations narrative. As far as the Dems are concerned, it's too bad Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't running, as we could then just skip over all the faux Hispanophiles and get to the real deal.
As for the GOP, there will be no need for debates to find the most credibly Israelophile among them, as the Jewish and Christian Zionists who dominate the party have pretty much got their man in the top slot already.
Now, with these salient facts in place, you can just ignore most of what happens over the next 17 months. In fact "hot issues" of the passing moment can safely be tuned out as irritating foreground noise, allowing the soothing BGM hum of American politics to drone on in the background like a TV set with the volume turned way down. The key thing will be to not to pay too much attention. I know I won't.
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