This game has been rigged

If you read the average newspaper editorial or many of the purported news articles about the US mid-term election, you may get the impression that the US electorate is angry, and that that anger is organic and grass-root in nature, pointed at the current ruling party - but you would have been wrong. Indeed there is anger in the land, but that anger did not originate in the grass-root. It is anger from a political party that could not handle its electoral loss, it is anger from a political elite on the US right that could not imagine being beaten by a team led by a woman and a black man, it is anger by corporate giants who tremble at the thought that their grip on the levers of power just be slipping - but it hasn't. It is not the populist anger you would come to expect, it is the rage of the connected scared of loosing their perch at the top of the hill.

Indeed there is discomfort in the land, but disillusion has set in not because of the discomfort but because of the widespread perception that politics and politicians are just ruinous to the nation - And the right feels left out of the outrage it sees brewing on the left - a brew that remains the concoction of Koch and Rove. Death panel was never the idea of the grass-root, socialism was never a grass-root idea, Marxist connection did not originate from the grass-root. These were all ideas peddled by the loathsome power crew on the right, from the day this new president was inaugurated - when a supposedly US citizen openly wished that his President fails - of course an advocacy that on its face demonstrates a lack of national interest, but rather a preference for personal aggrandizement and political game. Rush Limbaugh proclaimed he wanted Obama to fail, and Glenn Back called the President a racist - against white people!

Outrage! But the outrage was staged. It was all along, even before the election when Palin rhymly accused the Presidential candidate of Palling with Terrorists - Unfortunately, when the new government warned the nation of the dangers of home-grown terrorism, the same folks screamed to high-heavens about branding Americans as terrorists - Last I remembered, Bill Ayres was an American - But not to these political opportunists who can see Russia from the backyard.

Yes, indeed there is outrage, there is anger, but it is in the political campaign of Tea-Partiers like Joe Miller of Alaska (a Palin-lite), and Rand Paul Paul of Kentucky. Lying Miller had his body-guard arrest a journalist for daring to ask him questions, while Paul got a woman stomped on by his crew for daring to heckle him. And somehow, this thugs are on their way to the US senate! This game is rigged, the facts are muddled and journalist of all strips, in a bid to declare they are not biased for Obama have become supporters of all kinds of extreme ideas and positions as so called news articles have all simply become opinion journalism where every one explain away their bias in the news they are supposed to be covering.

Indeed there is anger in the land, but if the people are properly informed, they will not be returning the folks that ruined the country back to power - And if they did, then the theory of collective intelligence would have failed miserably, at least on American shores.