Super Tuesday
John Kerry's the nominee. Big whoop.
But there's something else going on as well. For the entire election cycle I've been complaining that Dennis Kucinich is getting the Nader treatment mainly because the media doesn't want an anti-corporate candidate to get any attention. He's still not getting any, but he has gotten himself on most of the ballots and he is getting into the debates which has raised his exposure slightly. Sure, the media's doing their best not to ask Kucinich any questions in the debates, but his message is able to trickle out in starts and stops. And the polls are reflecting it. I'm not trying to overstate this, he's a distant 3rd right now. But after initially being perpetually stuck with 2% of the vote (The percentage of progressive and politically aware people who delve into this stuff make up about 2% See- Nader voters.) Dennis is doing better. In Minnesota, New York, and Ohio (his home state) he did quite well with 17/5/9 % respectively. Like I said, not spectacular, but improving- especially Minnesota. It seems to indicate the more people know he's there, the more votes he's attracting. It seems obvious, yet the indication is actually quite depression. No TV, no votes. Lots of TV, votes. So the media can, like Sharpton says, "Pick the candidate for the people" Not a good thing.
Kerry is going to get creamed because there are a huge number of basically progressive people who don't vote because the democrats cannot find a non-wanker to run for office. It happened to Gore (and he still won) and it's gonna happen to Kerry. I would like to see a candidate like Kucinich get his message out for one reason. I want to see what happens. It's easy to pontificate about the size of the untapped progressive base. If, just once, the corporate whores would let a candidate with a progressive message into the mainstream coverage we would see whether people voted for them or not.
Everyone is voting for Kerry because the media is telling us "He can beat Bush." No he can't. And even if he could, he will continue being the same crap-ass corporate slave he is now. The AFLCIO gives him an endorsement and he's still in favor of NAFTA. Please. Edwards, same deal. So, of course, the media's gonna say that.
I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but come on. There doesn't have to be collusion of any kind. All five of the giant Media Corps can do the equation on their own. Big money corporate candidate helps who? Why big corporations of course. An Anti-corporate candidate? S/He helps workers and the environment. (Walmart absolutely refuses to allow their workers to unionize, they buy a whole lot of commercials) S/He fights against the military industrial complex (NBC owned by GE who makes all kinds of weapons stuff) and basically tries to reign in the out of control ,madness of international conglomerations. (Halliburton Halliburton Halliburton) The media doesn't want that. No gigantic company wants that. So we get stuck with Kush and Berry. Again. Yippee.
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