Diagnosis: ED (Electoral Dysfunction)

Getting it Up For A Limping Democracy

It’s a SPOOKY time in the USA.

Halloween is in the air. Costumed goblins abound — trick or treat!

Elections next week. Mask-switching candidates troll — trick or trick.

From both sides of the barnyard fence comes the hyperventilating slogan: “This is the most important election of our time!”
Every media talking head regurgitates that cleverly concocted platitude to cover up what we’re really dealing with here — the most deceptive, manipulated, vile, absurd, and shallow presidential election — in four years!

Consider this TERRIFYING fact: television evening “news” is where the majority of Americans get their political information! It’s enough to send you screaming from the theater.
Meanwhile, online, and on hand-held devices, social media algorithms work to echo the same national fantasies and maintain the cultural bubbles required by those flesh-eating monsters—Wall Street and the military-industrial complex.

“A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.”
— Thomas Jefferson

I find myself walking around my city in a dystopian reverie— skyscraping stacks of dark apartments — windows illuminated by…