It Doesn't Matter Who Wins the Election

I'm long overdue for a political rant.  This one will be somewhat bipartisan. Maybe.  In terms of the big coming election,  the conventions are over.  The catty primary spats are over.  We're 6 weeks or so away from the big day.  There will be no significant third party or fourth party threat.  No spoiler to swing the election.  Just the incumbent and the challenger.  Both candidates call it a "clear choice".  Is it? 

We all know,  and everyone keeps saying, that both candidates are waging a war of advertising against each other that will go on for the next six weeks.  Hundreds of millions of dollars.  Both sides are being bought.  Both sides are being invested in by the gigantic Wall Street international banking and cooperate oligarchy. Both candidates are beholdened to those who gave them money.  We all know this in a bipartisan way.  Your candidate and mine are bought and they owe.

It doesn't matter who the President is.  The financial world will run the country and control the government.
Can this be changed?  Anything is possible.  But from where I sit,  I don't see how.

There are a lot of books coming out right now about the shrinking middle class.  It didn't happen because of eight years of George Bush.  It didn't happen because of 3.5 years of President Obama.   It didn't happen because of Democrats or Republicans.  It happened because of normal human behavior.  Should we be surprised that people are greedy and want to take everything for themselves?  We are surprised,  but we shouldn't be.  We Homo sapiens are stupid.  Very stupid.  Being greedy is the least of our problems!  We kill each other over territory.  We kill each other over  imaginary gods in the sky we believe in.  We are stupid.  That is why we can't eliminate starvation and war.  So of course!  we can't stop the shrinking of the middle class.  It's just human behavior.  Are we a thousand years away from having relations with our fellow man where the bottom line in disagreement is not violence?

How long will the Human Race survive?  Of all species of critter ever on the planet,  99 percent are extinct.
What is the probability that humans will be around long enough to learn not commit violence against one another?  Let alone set up a society where all creatures are treated fairly.  We are stupid,  we are greedy and we are violent.

Do I sound negative?  I just want to be rational.

We are stupid.  We argue about whether "global warming",  more softly called "climate change",  is going to be caused by man or caused by cycles of hot and cold.  Or will radiation from war weapons kill the atmosphere?  These things are bad.  But they are not bad for the Planet.  It only takes a few degrees hotter or colder to make Man extinct.  The Planet will do just fine without Man.  A forest fire is a tragedy for Man, and some critters,  not the Planet. 

I guess what I'm trying to say is:  We are going to go ahead and kill each other.  We are going to go ahead and cook the planet until we kill ourselves.  We are going to go ahead and wipe out the middle class and end the U.S. as we know it.  It won't be because of who wins the 2012 election!

Let me end with a ray of hope.  I think it's a huge ray of hope.  We are learning facts at a very fast rate.  We are sending these facts around the world in seconds due to our World Wide Internet.  If a new Genome is discovered from some unknown species and it sheds light on who we are,  we can all know about it the next day.  If we know more about ourselves we may not need or want to kill each other.

I  met a very smart young PhD the other day,  and we were chatting about evolution and how half of America prefers the Garden of Eden story.  I told the professor folks could look at how our bodies are larger just since WW2.  Then he said "Oh well,  you can prove natural selection over lots of generations in the lab.  Can do it in a few weeks."  I said "Go on".  He said,  "Well yes,  you get some grad students and some fruit flies and you raise the temperature in their container and half of them die.  You take the survivors and let them multiply a few generations and then repeat the experiment by raising the temperature again and so on.  Instant heat resistant fruit flies.  Mutation,  natural selection.  No big deal."   We talked about my dogs,  and our  mutual friend Professor Mike,  and what we were having for dinner etc.  But I remembered the fruit flies and the ray of hope not just for the next four years,  but for as long as man is on this Planet. 
If fear, superstition, and hate,  and the clinging to old wrong ideas can fade away,  there is a chance that science and technology can teach us humans  we are all in this together on the planet we all share as we hurtle through space and time.

LLITTY     ::::+::::