Another One Falls

Herman Cain, whom I’ve stated earlier I admire, is now in a battle against the slings and arrows of a society run amok. Possible transgressions aside, here we have a man who has stepped up to the plate, offered money and a large part of his very soul, to put some sound business and economic sanity back into our country. He has recognized that while money does not directly buy happiness, that the lack of money (in this country that means “lack of production”) can certainly lead to unhappiness.

He’s got ideas. Though an imperfect man (whatever that means) he would have put a valuable tone and timber at the symbolic helm of this country; one we desperately need.

But, as the collective fools that we have become, we are attracted now to salacious accusations like moths to a flame.  Of course,  these are only accusations. Each is subject to hidden variables of misinterpretation, of mal agendas, exaggerations and other powerful factors far from view. Courts were instituted in this land to sort out these factors. But in this sloppy society accusations have become verdicts – forgone conclusions promulgated as truth by the powerful controller of information. A Clinton can stuff cigars into the nether regions of a young intern, a Kennedy can may have porked herds of “other women”; but these get relative social passes by the purveyors of official truth – yet this one conservative black man is thrown into the grinder of  “blind” judgment as truly important matters, to this country, are attenuated.

It will be interesting to see how my more socialist brethren, some endorsing the easy distribution of abortion drugs for young girls who have become pregnant (to preserve recreational sex),  will see this. Many have stated that Clinton’s escapades had little to do with his presidency. I agree, in part. He was impeached for lying – not for overactive gonads. Lying is a mark of mis-character and fear of the truth (oh – and is illegal when under oath). I tend to believe that one’s sexual proclivities are not as big an indication of character as many other points;  even though promiscuity does add to the problems of life and tends to reflect on questions of loyalty and keeping promises (certainly points of character).

Regardless, Mr. Cain was culled out of the herd early – for dismemberment and eventual dispatch. Something would have gotten him. It turned out to be this. The pattern is similar to the “wife-beating” allegations against Obama’s democrat opponent,  Hull,  right at the Illinois primary for U.S. Senate.  It  happened again with Obama’s Republican opponent, Ryan, at the actual election – propelling Obama into the Senate. Each were sexual allegations lifted from sealed records which turned out not to be true. But it stuck the attention of the masses and was enough to get Obama elected.

I suspect Obama would fear running against Cain more than any of the others.

It is disgusting to watch. It is fascinating to watch. It is like watching the cheetah in the field eyeing up his prey. You know he will win. The outcome is nearly certain. You watch with fascination as the inevitable plays out.

Cain will go. (Actually he has gone I just learned).  I am saddened not so much by the loss of this particular man to politics, but by the bias of the system to keep all things as they are. The momentum of our present system is like a world of freight trains. One may has well try to stop an earthquake.

We will get another middle of the road guy (a man, of course). We’ll get another candidate, indistinguishable from the existing body-politic. If it is Gingrich, the masses will vote for the prettier man (Obama) who has been only married once. If it is Mitt – who knows? Really, neither Gingrich or Mitt are really that different from our current President.

As said in Clock Work Orange – “So it Goes”.