Scapegoat in Chief

ahhhh debates. There is nothing like a great debate. Cook a little dinner, go for a walk on a lovely evening, get to feeling a little warm and fuzzy and then come home to catch one of the most useless spectacles in television. Every four years two very decent and probably well meaning people are chosen by the citizens of the united states to fight each other in the public arena. The whole system is designed to promote a civilized version of a prize fight. A fight where the american public is the trainer, promoter and judge. Every November we watch the final stages of a fight where two men who have absolutely no ill will towards each other have discovered that they have to tear each down in shameless ways in order to win. Two men forced to become enemies. But it is a fight where the fighter isnt even the winner, he gains very little. The people who chose/trained and promoted the candidate gain the most in the end. They gain the influence change the direction of country. No wonder we are bipartisan country. We manufacture our hatred for ourselves. Its a funny kind of psychology that we have developed in America. Even our elections have become an expression of our desire to compete, dominate and live and let die.