According to Forbes, Newt Gingrich and Hillary Clinton are the “meanest” presidential selectees, excuse me, candidates. Forbes tells us “meanness is not an attribute many people consider a positive for a president,” but then most people are sincerely and frighteningly clueless when it comes to the characteristics our rulers, who by and large are inbred sociopaths and psychopaths, find necessary and appealing.

“Politics, along with selling cars, television shows or any other product, has become a complex marketing process,” Forbes informs us. “The 46 attributes help define trends and key drivers of what moves a person to respond or react to the messaging and the messenger. In this case, the candidate’s name is given to the polled population, which is then asked to match whichever of the attributes it believes is appropriate for the candidate in question.”

Again, it is entirely irrelevant what “moves a person to respond or react to the messaging and the messenger,” as the “marketing process” is little more than smoke and mirrors, an expensive charade engaged in every four years to trick the commoners into thinking they actually participate in the “electoral process,” indeed nothing more than a selection process. If you doubt this is indeed the case, take a look at the exclusion process underway in regard to the campaign of Ron Paul, who will of course not be allowed to get anywhere near the White House, let alone the Republican nomination.

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As the author William Blum once noted, if he was somehow elected to serve as president, on the fourth day he would be assassinated. It would undoubtedly be the fate suffered by any other person not selected by our rulers if he or she somehow against all odds happened to win an election, never mind the sickly persuasion of the corporate media, Diebold voting machines, and a Supreme Court of appointed reactionaries eager to throw elections.

However, as Wilhelm Reich declared before the government had their way with him, it is the average, the “little man” who is ultimately responsible for the spread of fascism. “You let men in power assume power ‘for the Little Man’. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded,” Reich wrote in 1948.

Indeed, we are defrauded on a regular basis. It does not matter that Gingrich or Clinton are mean, this is irrelevant to the point of absurdity. In fact, the entire system—cultural, economic, and political—we exist under is “mean” in the most severe sort of way, as it is run by a gaggle of psychopaths and their minions. Come November, 2008, people will vote for Hillary not because she is mean or kind or anything else, but because the coiffured talking heads on Fox and CNN, the “experts” and “analysts,” at the behest of a very small number of inbred royals and international bankers, tell them to do so.