You Know and I Know

The problem with reading blogs and agonizing over the politics, esp. God save us just about the ugliest politics ever, namely Presidential politics (is it just going to get uglier and uglier without end?), is that when a politician does something particularly sleazy, it's like YOU know and I know that it's sleazy, but it doesn't make a bit of difference in the larger universe where people are essentially being charged to believe the way their lizard brain wants them to feel - all freakish and paranoid. There's no battling the lizard brain, the lizard brain will make people do all sorts of counter-intuitive and self-immolating things in the name of the lizard brain, and I can safely say that unless Obama has some master plan for simplifying things to their simplest level for the simple folk in this horribly complex land, this ad is the Willie Horton ad to end all Willie Horton ads, down to the pics they pick to make him look like a sicko frickin perv. And I can throw dishese against the wall, scream my lungs out, pull my hair out by the roots, but it makes not one lick of difference, these twisted bastards are JUST DOING THEIR JOB. They don't have souls, souls would get in the way of business and... ew... souls?

And that's where I cease to be able to understand it. It's warfare I suppose, with the notable exception that wars are ostensibly fought - at least American wars - with some sort of tangible positive outcome, fought to achieve some moral good. While these political wars, these twisted ugly ends-unto-themselves, do nothing but mire this country further in the muck, right at the moment when the country can least handle it. Which also means, McCain - who endorses these ads - is so twisted and lost in himself, that... what? Country first, bullshit. No right-minded individual would stir up this negativity if he believed in country first (not that anyone would suspect it was anything but an empty slogan for him in any case.)

But can Obama recover from this? Would the country surprise me and finally turn away from such attempts in disgust? How much faith do I have in my fellow citizens. Not a lot.