Ohboyohboy, primary season is officially upon us at last. Iowans go to the caucuses in two weeks, shortly thereafter comes Super Tuesday and a plethora of other primaries across the country. By March we’ll pretty much know what the ticket is for the November elections. It doesn’t make Pennsylvania, with their late primary balloting, seem like she has much of a say in things but such is our current party-based, electoral system.
But who cares? It’ll be a whole season of bread and circuses. The two party standard-bearers will promise larger and larger allotments of bread for the people at increasingly raucous circuses. By the end of it all you’ll think we’re headed for Utopia only to find out the only way to get there is by offering up all the money in your pocket to the friendly hand of Uncle Sam in the expectation he’ll bestow upon you a little thin gruel and maybe a bit of moldy cheese on Sundays. So, we’ll all laugh at politicos’ campaign promises and assume that, no matter what, this great nation of ours will keep on keepin’ on just like it has for the past 228 years or so.
Stay tuned true believers, it promises to be a fun ride.