¶ 14 October 2004
The idea of voting for either of them fundamentally disgusts me. There is no meaningful sense in which we are choosing a human being to lead anything humane or social. We are choosing between the programed factotums of two nominal subdivisions of a single syndicate of sinecures that not only lacks a shred of moral authority, but lacks the cognizance or conscience to even recognize this as a flaw. We are choosing not between philosophies or ethics or principles or ends or even means, but between arbitrary and constrained agendas of heartlessly and gutlessly limited opposition. We are choosing a minor temporary oscillation of a sealed and rotting political ecosystem whose overriding meta-agenda in all things is the self-perpetuation of a government of convenience in service of a society guided passively and only by the relentless exercise of systemically myopic greed.