Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Total Recall

The one take-away from Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory is this: people are starting to realize that the actual person they vote for doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that he has no political experience or that he was abusive to women. In the same way it doesn't matter that George W. Bush is dense and unskilled.

What does matter is

1. You haven't killed anyone.
2. You seem like a nice person.
3. The people around you know what they are doing.

It's becoming more and more apparent that people like Carl Rove, although not elected by anyone, control the political life, which is to say (as Aristotle would), the ethical life of this country.

Hasta la vista, baby. Hasta la vista.

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