by Wombaticus Rex » Tue Oct 18, 2016 7:01 pm
As the cycle of Mundane & Meaningless accelerates, I do wonder what RI might return to on November 12th (after the riots die down).
The news has all been engaging and exciting, but it feels like snorting triple-stamped Hells Angel cocaine in a department store bathroom, doesn't it?
What? Not a relatable metaphor? Okay: it feels like a plastic fake.
When the head of CNN publicizes his own mea culpa about airing too many Trump rallies, I smell it. Wrestlemania is huge and heavy on nostalgia: bringing out Olbermann or Jon Stewart or Clint Eastwood is a guaranteed pop, the audience lives for that shit.
I've accepted never knowing if Trump is savvy actor or deluded dupe, considering his defense of his accomplishments is every bit as reasoned as his excuses for questions he didn't see coming, and considering nobody in his orbit can be remotely trusted before, during or after the fact. Inevitably, someone anonymous or tangential from the HRC2016 campaign will come forward in paramedia as a "whistleblower," saying that the Clinton/Trump fix was in since 2014, confirming everything I suspected, and I won't believe that, either.
I'm suggesting that what matters most about Election 2016 is the fact we will be in the same fundamental position once it's done.
I don't propose we discuss anything here; best not to, really. But, do think about it.
What got shaken loose during the past 12 months?
What happened in the past 8 years that got overlooked by everyone, including us?
What can we re-build actual American Majorities around now? I mean, Canadian Majorities.
What are people ready to think about in 2017 that they wouldn't admit to thinking about in 2015?
Where is global capital weakest? Mainstream media? Federal law enforcement?
What if there are no policy-level solutions for the problems we discuss here?
What if "lowering the bar" isn't necessarily bad? What if that creates more opportunities for candidates with fringe beliefs? Like you?
What value does engaging with pop culture have when nobody who loved Stranger Things will read A Terrible Mistake?
And the only serious one I'm posing to us:
What sub-forum should we move the actual research to? No, really.