Election Contemplation / Rambling

Cardsfan6734 (2:17:05 PM): as of right now, if the election were today- who would you vote for?

Not my favorite question, to be honest, mainly because I'm at a point where I don't like Bush at all, but, I can't get all the way behind Kerry, either, because of how his campaign seems to be run by idiots who think being considerate and polite will be able to defeat excellent attack propogandists who pretend to be all nice and peachy. Its almost as though the Democrats have no balls against the bullys.

And part of me wonders if that was intentional. Maybe that's why Kerry became popular instead of Dean, who would have been a more charismatic and probably more aggressive campaigner. Maybe that's why his campaign is so ineffectively run (In my own humble opinion, at least) -- because he's not meant to win, not meant to be serious enough of a contender to actually win in November. Maybe this is all just one big show for our own entertainment.

Which brings to mind "Metal Gear Solid 2" and the part where the admittedly puppet president of the U.S. outlines how a shadow government staged the entire heated election campaign as a show for the public, and some of the schools of thought that coincide with the themes of the "Matrix" trilogy such as what is real and what is not?

And, come to think about it, I have a perfect quote from a comments thread on a political blog to post here on that subject (its relevance pertains to the whole "Dean Implosion" and the media):

The establishment did not want Dean. The establishment instructed the media to tell the sheeple that he acted like a maniac, and the sheeple said , "Yeah, Dean is a maniac." It had absolutely nothing to do with the money.

Dean was anti-establishment, and he was gaining a head of steam. He had to be stopped. The establishment want Kerry or Bush, as they have BOTH proven their loyalty.
posted by "tomocious"
- Mark Perkel Rantz >> Post and comments thread

Inexorably the question being raised made me eventually go to Presidentmatch.com, and after taking a quiz, which I should probably take a week from now and compare changes (if any) in my own opinions on issues, I found out that obviously the candidate whose stances matches mine closest. It was -- dun dun DUN!! -- Kerry. 83% match. Heh, with a 64% match on Kusinich, who I did not was still a candidate. (Six months or so ago it was a 70 something % match -- did my opinions change, or was it the positions of Kerry's that changed somewhat?) -- Smirky McDipshit, btw, was a distant 23% match.

What made the match thing a load of crap though was it does not have Nader on there. So, you may closely match Nader's stances, but you're not going to know because the third party candidate is being suppressed by the media and the establishment as well. What a crock of shit to restrict it to the two elitist parties and their candidate.