That's the question Robert Redford asks at the end of "The Candidate", a movie made more than thirty years ago. The question is asked just after Redford realizes that he has won a toughly contested race for Senator. I caught the last hour or so of this classic movie last night, a movie which I can't ever recall seeing.
It reminded me of current day America where so much attention, effort and time has been spent for so long on the race, yet we still have not much of an idea what our candidates - from local to national levels - really believe. They speak in bromides, reciting old ideas, proposing to bring nirvana to our daily world. And we, in the role of the media, go along with this inanity. Did he wear his freedom pin today? Does he have 7 or 9 houses? What relevance do these questions have to the quagmire the world is in today?
Yes, democracy is not a pretty thing. But, we have turned it into a truly ugly thing.
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Meanwhile, Cheney hands over one billion of our tax dollars to Georgia. For what? Aid for rebuilding? Just what exactly needs rebuilding, other than what the Georgians themselves destroyed?
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