Now that we Democrats have once again been consigned to the fringes and the Republicans are digging up a corpse to attempt to stanch the stench from the former leading confessed Republicans, barring an asteroid striking the earth the race is pretty much between The Empire and Amway.
I don’t know if anyone else here enjoys the titillation of getting political news from Marketwatch (hey, when you get too old for even Viagra). Might tell you something about the primary places I haunt but even ghosts have perversions.
One of the fossils on Marketwatch found a survey of market mavens that had Ron Paul leading the contest. Considering that even the fossil found Ron Paul about as viable a candidate as Lyndon LaRouche, fossil took another tack for setting up the racing odds much like Josh Marshall is using market futures. (I apologize in advance for the name-calling but I couldn’t recall the name nor find the opinion piece.)
To make the story short because I have only a vague recall and can’t produce more gas on the subject, fossil ranked the candidates by corporate money flow. Anyone who can’t name the overwhelming favorite of the bankers and pharmas and insurance companies and other “moneyed interests” that seem quite safe from pitchforks in our plutocracy might consider a course in reading comprehension.
Now that The Empire has struck back most effectively, what chance is there for the Amway candidate.
Lots.
How can that be possible you say?
How did lionfood take out the Roman Empire and all their fascinating gods and goddesses might be a better question.
Ron Paul and Lyndon LaRouche and Pat Robertson and even Pat Buchanan are a bit too exotic for the time being. They might as well be the Heaven’s Gate cult. But the Amway cult feeds on the same stuff as capitalism. Greed cannot be denied in any but the most rigidly despotic socialist regimes.
My bet is on Amway. Maybe it is only because it comforts me in the darkness of the current state of affairs.
Your mileage may vary.
Best, Terry