100% right. This is exactly what happened.

[Jakes Progress]

71. Remember. The lesser of two evils

is still evil.

I don't know why anyone bothers listening to candidates running for office (and they are always running). They lie. They just lie. Without embarrassment or qualm. Obama said things and then did exactly the opposite. So did bush. As avid as many here were for the daring truth-teller that they saw in candidate Obama, how can anyone trust any candidate again. Bernie sounds good. But Obama sounded good.

I remember reading an interview with John Cusak where the reporter talked about the cynicism of believing that both parties were completely in the hands of the ultra-rich and the corporate interests. His reply was that it was not cynical to live in a reality based world.

I am struck by a quote from a Salon interview with Chris Hedges: http://tinyurl.com/http-SalonEsquith

We have, to quote John Ralston Saul, “undergone a corporate coup d’état in slow motion” and it’s over. The normal mechanisms by which we carry out incremental and piecemeal reform through liberal institutions no longer function. They have been seized by corporate power — including the press.

The scary part is the realization that the coup is over. It is hard to see any other reality than that the corporate world now owns the nation. The few office holders that can't be bought are marginalized, but, as we see with the fevered fight our president just put up to win this for the fat cats, almost all can be or have been bought.

This is not saying that both parties are the same. But they do answer to same bosses. And neither cares what the people want. Picking one over the other is just high school football team rivalry.

I've quit calling myself cynical.