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I don’t know how to answer your questions, but I thank you for giving me something to think about.

Awesome post.

Good analogy Sparkie. It is 1/2 entertainment and 1/2 manipulation and 95% bullshit. Sometimes a preformer get hurt for real, sometimes they really do hate each other, but they know they are full of shit, and they know just where to spread that shit for maximum effect/coverage. After all, thats what makes a good politician (or wrestler), the ability to bullshit as many people as possible to achieve the goal and put on a good show. Washington did this with the run up to the war. They do this with immigration, the war on drugs, abortion, just about any issue that will build a voting block and pit one side against the other. In this way, they work together to get whatever it is they want at any given time. The media is full of smarks, though I would call them ringers as they have a vital role in the drama. At least with wrestling, you generally get what you pay for. Thats more than you can say about Washington.
I liken it to the old tried and true goodcop/badcop routine. One cop pretends to be on your side, he understands the situation you are in and just wants to help you and protect you from the threatening “other cop”. Fear is powerful. They get what they want from you, using your own fear and insecurities against you, then feed you to the lions.
Either way, you get it. Its not conservative vs. liberal, its more like a boiling pot of water vs. a lobster. It feels good and natural when they drop you in the pot, warm and wonderful, you get to see your friends and you can all rejoice together in the comfort you FEEL in that nice warm pot. The problem is you dont know you have been cooked until its to late.
Thats really the interesting question...why dont people learn after a few times that they are about to be boiled up and served with butter and wine.

I thank you for giving me something to think about.

No problem.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Occasionally you post something worth reading.

Politics has been drama queen crap for a very long time. With the advent of radio and then TV it has morphed into a cancer that is destroying everything it comes in contact with. 75% of people running for office at the State and Federal are lying scumbags. They say anything, anything at all, merely to get elected. They do not care about any issue. They care only about getting into office, at which point they do whatever they want, screw what voters want.

Look at America today, the citizens keep telling elected officials what we want done, and they do the exact opposite. And fling their feces in our faces when we tell them it is not what we want done. All the while stealing our money and diminishing our rights.

Wrastlin’, it is an excellent analogy.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

4 effing comments, eh? and one was mine? c’mon marks!

alright, so what’s the deal with these marks who are made to think they are smarks? what is the cost to bona fide democracy that this blatant MARKeting incurs? if the gross truth came out now would there be accusations to the effect of taking out the messenger based on the message? what is the taboo on fessing up to the marky/smarky schizo schema? (<--check the 3 letter alliteration, the style...)

no opinions, eh? sound off about the binary border issues now. go rail on the RINOs now. talk about how if you could decide for the states, you would… effing GOP ‘marks’. go rally for the proliferation of your religion, tarts. go hound your fed people to take the reins. same to you, mafia-courting effing lazy, corrupt democrats. don’t think i haven’t witnessed that first hand. the lazy employees finding creative ways to give out money to the lazy, lying courtiers of all the fed moneypits. don’t think I haven’t been to the dem convention in Rhode Island, effing mafia-laced crackpots.

bullshit. faux conservative, faux democrats, emo creampuffs.

let me get another post about Barry Hussein or McCain’s border policy. bait-takers. where’s the third and fourth parties?

what’s going on down your block?

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

4 effing comments, eh? and one was mine? c’mon marks!

Yoooz makin dem all uncumfertible and shit.
Sparkie, the truth hurts, and they is hurtin.

Everyone here would be a smark. Why would a mark respond to anything as lowbrow as a Wrestling analogy of politics?
Its not the first time and it won’t be the last time that people equate politics to wrestling. I’ve been writing a blog dedicated to that analogy (punditfight.com) and it’s amazing to see how many people draw that same analogy from the ether.
There is definitely an overlap in the charisma, presentation and psychology of modern politics. The teams, the rivalries, the showdown, the taunting. A large part of it has been heightened by the combative nature of pundit media and talk radio.

The media language has been dumbed down to a point where its assumed that people can only relate to politics if its presented in a wrestling/sports type setting. With the rise of pundit media every discussion of news comes down “and in this corner we have the blue team and in the other corner...”

I don’t think the sportslike presentation is bad in and of itself, insulting or underestimating our intelligence perhaps. People just need to be aware of it. To be able to deconstruct things, to prioritise and digest things accordingly.