Status Quo Politics and 2016
P. Schultz
December 21, 2014
Below is a
link to an article in the Intercept
about the possibility of Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton seeking the presidency in
2016. As Greenwald correctly points out, such an eventuality would be revealing,
for example, of the oligarchic character of our political order. As Greenwald
puts it, here are two families, one of whom used its wealth to acquire
political power and the other that used its political power to obtain great
wealth. And, I would add, doing this while all the time preserving the status
quo. As of now, it seems to me that anyone who votes in the 2016 presidential
election is merely voting to preserve the status quo and, hence, would have no
right to complain about the results of that election. As George Carlin use to
point out, it isn’t those who don’t vote who are not legitimately able to
complain, it is those who did vote who lose that right. The point being, I
think, is that if you participate in a farce, you have no right to complain
about that farce.
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