Today IS the day of the California Democratic Primary, which is what occasions this comment about WHY our campaign is so necessary ...
Two outstanding candidates are vying today for the Democratic nomination to mix it up with the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger: Phil Angelides and Steve Westly.
Both of them are incredibly smart, talented and wealthy ;-) individuals, either one of whom would be a significant improvement over Arnold, except in the pure entertainment area, perhaps ...
And yet for the last several weeks, the airwaves here have been FILLED with the most vicious and nasty personal attacks on each other, taking tiny events from years ago and blowing them up as if they were crimes on a par with the unasked invasion and radical de-stabilization of another country and world region.
Whoever wins, all this is going to do is ease the "target research" burden of Arnold and the Republicans in the fall election, and create a lot of bad feeling between people who have no real beef with each other.
So why is our campaign necessary ???
Because there is something seriously wrong with a system in which two smart / talented / accomplished people spend MILLIONS OF DOLLARS attacking each other over nothing in a contest that is going to leave both of them wounded, angry at each other, and the significant issues STILL largely unaddressed.
This is only ONE example of how the US electoral system has gone so badly off the rails ...
Check out the fourth item in our US section:
Basic Electoral Reform ... to minimize the influence of MONEY in the process ...
Worth thinking about ... and making sure I get on the ballot for the November elections, don't you think ???
[Previously posted at
Grok Your World.]