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Have you voted? More to the point, do you get to?

No? Me, neither.

What is “Super Tuesday?” Here’s a definition from the nebulous “wikipedia”:

In the United States, Super Tuesday commonly refers to the Tuesday in early February or March of a presidential election year when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to select delegates to national conventions at which each party’s presidential candidates are officially nominated.

Are you a Delegate? No? Are you a Superdelegate?

No? Are you shaking enough hands, and buttering palms so you can be one?

Me, neither.

So, what’s the purpose of “Super Tuesday?” What’s the purpose, but to drive the populace into another media-induced stupor, conflate advertising about “hope” and “change” with the realities of how our country is run?

And how does our country run? It runs, contrary to what I was told by left-over hippies, in my youth, like a business.

When business is good - when it is more ethical than not, when the workers and their families are protected and rewarded, when opportunity abounds - the country runs well.

We have, in the totally disingenuous Mrs. Clinton, and the somewhat genuine Mr. Obama, little more (and a lot less than) empty and hollow promises, piling icing onto a dry and rotten pseudo-Leninist/Maoist cake, for the sake of pulling in today’s left-over Utopians with pleasant lies about a world that does not exist.

In “Whitey” McCain, we can see the machinations not of true Conservatism, but of the Neo-Liberal machine, in the form of the New York Times, pushing its ‘failure candidate’ to the fore, for the purpose of pushing their Mrs. Clinton all the way.

When fear and failure - McCain - is sold as the candidate for the “Republic”, and “leave no one standing” Clinton is sold as the candidate for the Demos - for the people - you can call the election a vestigial organ of a failing Republic.

The fix is in. The delegates will try to foist their delusions onto the country, in your name. The Superdelegates will put it to rest. You want a vote? You don’t have one. You get your opinion on a blog, if you want it. It’s more than some people in some countries get. But it’s not an election.

More on the Delegation Hustle [Here and Here]