STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 26 April 2023

[Tansy_Gold]

3. This was one textbook for a class I took . . .

. . . in the middle of the 2000 election. I told the professor I thought it was the stupidest, most biased text of the three or four we had to read and he was aghast that anyone would challenge Polsby & Wildavsky, who were supposed to be unbiased, neutral "experts" on the subject.

I told him, "Anyone who puts 'picturesque slum' in print is NOT unbiased."

I've long suspected that the ~40% of eligible voters who don't vote do so out of disgust with the candidates as well as with the other voters. 2000 was a farce of corruption that paved the way for 2016. Anyone who believed non-rich voters chose 💩 out of "economic insecurity" was out of their mind. And any country that allows itself to be governed by the minority is a failed state, neither a democracy nor a "democratic republic." And it's only going to get worse, as states like TX take away even the appearance of an election. Why go to the trouble to cast a ballot when you KNOW it won't be counted?