Four Year Old Post

I just today stumbled upon this post I entered into the Grist site four plus years ago during the Bush II - Kerry slugfest. Kind of prophetic in a spooky ironic sort of way . . .

The inability to govern

If anyone thinks that the nominee of either party in the current scheme of things can effectively govern, work against the impact of corporate money, buck the system and make meaningful change (whether its relating to the poor, rampant militarization or the environment), they're deluding themselves. The only real change works from the bottom up, at the grassroots level. The only way to energize that grassroots constituency is to smack them in the face and get them off their couches-away from their televisions. Kerry won't do that. In the end, he will have to compromise with a split congress to get anything through, and none of it will be meaningful. In the long term, maybe it will be better to have a puppet like Bush in power, attempting to clear-cut the nation and smog the skies. Maybe his blatant, empty-minded, stumbling ineptitude will get people off their butts and working for real change.

Posted at 7:08 AM on 22 Oct 2004