Scandalous Bob Menendez reportedly is up to election bat again — perfectly demonstrating the moral and intellectual vacuity of the U.S. Democratic Party

© 2018 Peter Free

 

04 June 2018

 

 

Chuck, Nancy and Bob — emblems for the Donkey Party's evil-seeking worthlessness

 

Glenn Greenwald picked up on this 'wonderful' news:

 

 

Fresh off escaping a federal bribery conviction thanks to a hung jury, two-term Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez is almost sure to win his party’s nomination on Tuesday for re-election in New Jersey against only token opposition.

 

That Menendez — who has been in Congress for 26 years, and is seeking his third Senate term — is about to become the Democrats’ nominee without any real primary challenge says a great deal about the party and the U.S. political system.

 

© 2018 Glenn Greenwald, Democrats Set to Re-Nominate Sen. Bob Menendez After Preventing Challengers, Showing How Calcified the Party Is, The Intercept (04 June 2018)

 

 

Not so coincidentally, I been thinkin'

 

Anticipating the 2018 mid-term elections, I have been unenthusiastically wondering whether I would stoop to voting for Democrats (in opposition to President Trump's Republican Party of the Anti-Christ).

 

Senator Mendendez's appearance back on the national stage (of legalized grifting and grafting) seals my previously tentative decision. Not a chance.

 

 

The moral? — What's better?

 

A Republican group of plutocratic, warmongering Anti-Christers?

 

Or an allegedly opposing group that stands for exactly the same thing, minus a few (usually hollow) positive stances about the value of diversity?

 

Neither.

 

I figure letting this place continue to burn itself down will give us a chance to phoenix ourselves back into some semblance of mild rectitude. In societal arson, the Republican Party has the edge. It is less skilled at sniveling hypocrisy. Republicans are (thus) slightly less adept at fooling genuinely kindly people all the time. And stylistically, I like my bad guys visibly bad. Pridefully wrong-doing. Grandiosely turd-slinging.  You know, morality play stuff.

 

Leaving major devils in charge seems to be the only way to discover whether our supposedly federal republic has any leadership angels left. And whether anything will wake the American public up enough to guarantee them office.

 

Don't count on either, of course.

 

Both eventualities seem to be doomed by the United States' institutionalized rottenness. If you look at recent history, only cataclysm teaches anyone anything. Figure German, Japan and China. Even then, the lessons arguably don't last long.

 

We are temporary puppets on a quickly revolving stage. Its merry-go-round rotation is fueled by a combination of transient power and (seemingly obligatory) human baseness.

 

Ain't nuthin' exceptional in that. Whatever we tell ourselves.