When God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, Norman Rockwell and Jimmy Stewart wrote the Constitution on a stone tablet on top of the World Trade Center in 1776, they clearly instructed George Washington that to preserve the young, fragile federation of colonies, he must invent something called a Third-Party Candidate. Ever since then, it has been the job of Third-Party Candidates to herd voters into one of two electoral corrals in the false left/right dichotomy that preserves Democratic and Republican control by making them look like honest and superior choices by comparison. That's why we have dark horses like
Gene Amondson.
Gene wants to resurrect prohibition. He has frequently dressed up as the
Grim Reaper in order to drive that message home. "Death to the Demon Drink," he likes to say. Gene is a world-class painter, as well, and the author of children's stories for which he gets his inspiration by falling asleep and dreaming during the sermon
portion of a church service. It wouldn't be surprising if it turned out that Gene here were really just having fun tilting at windmills and drawing attention to the delusion of meaningful elections. But no matter what
his reason for running, the irrelevance of his cause guarantees its failure, which is exactly what the managers of our society want. Besides, don't we already know what happens when a dry drunk sits in the Oval Office for almost eight years?
Gene wants to resurrect prohibition. He has frequently dressed up as the Grim Reaper in order to drive that message home. "Death to the Demon Drink," he likes to say. Gene is a world-class painter, as well, and the author of children's stories for which he gets his inspiration by falling asleep and dreaming during the sermon
portion of a church service. It wouldn't be surprising if it turned out that Gene here were really just having fun tilting at windmills and drawing attention to the delusion of meaningful elections. But no matter what his reason for running, the irrelevance of his cause guarantees its failure, which is exactly what the managers of our society want. Besides, don't we already know what happens when a dry drunk sits in the Oval Office for almost eight years?
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