And That's the Way It Isn't

These media types just get me. We know that they thrive on strife, dissension, protest, and rebellion -- there would hardly be any news stories otherwise. We also know that they have learned to fine-tune their victims, er, "customers", with just the right amounts of fear and anger, to which they respond with just the right amounts of reassurance and promised justice, with the result that the public is kept in a constant state of general unease and anticipation, and hence ready to patronize the next "news cycle", and so it goes, world without end. So tension, non-resolution, and ambiguity are the basic nutrients the media feed on. And if this is true, then why is it that with each passing primary, there are calls for one (or both!) of the Democratic candidates to quit the race, in the interests of "party unity", and the ultimate defeat of those nasty old Republicans? Doesn't it make a much better story if Obama and Hillary fight it out to the bitter end -- which they show every intention of doing? (I've heard that if Obama loses the nomination, he's going to run as a third-party candidate, under the banner of the newly-formed NBNGNBNW Party. That's the "Not Bitter, No Guns, No Bibles, Not White" Party.) Ah, but then you would be forgetting that, for the liberal media (and yes, that's a redundancy), this election cycle represents the reductio ad absurdum of liberal politics, and thus their worse nightmare. They must be saying, "To think -- after all those decades of identity politics, race-mongering, political correctness, and victimology -- it should come to this! Why, we never actually _intended_ that a black man should run for president; that was all just rhetoric! And the idea of a woman running -- maybe not quite as rhetorical, but still." So the Democrats continue to grind their teeth, and the media pick up every rasping note. And now George McGovern has added his namby-pamby voice to the cacophony. It would be easier to relish all of this if the Republican candidate were not every bit as scary as either of the Democrats. But still, to see liberals finally run up against the consequences of their own ill logic and treacherous strategies is a fine thing. Plus, just like the reasoning behind "global warming", each side sees every result as evidence that they are destined to come out on top. And think, half of those attending the Democratic Convention will have their delusions crushed before it's over. Suicide-prevention and grief counselors will be standing by.