100,000 Old, White Reactionaries Given Key Role In Determining Next President

A crucial determinant in choosing the next President of the United States and “Leader of The Free World” ^TM is 100,000 or so old, white reactionary Republicans in the state of Iowa. So decrees the corporate media.

Every four years the corporate propaganda system runs the same scam. They set this barrier to being President of having to gain the approval of white reactionaries in two tiny, virtually all-white, right wing states- Iowa and New Hampshire. This is presented as a fact of nature, just the way things are, because they’ve always been this way (which is pure bullshit of course).

118,000 is the approximate number of participants in the previous (2008) Iowa GOP Presidential caucuses, so-called. That was a record high. 


The caucus-goers don't even actually choose any delegates to the national convention.(Bet you didn't know that.) By tradition, the delegates feel "obligated" to follow the wishes of the caucus "voters." 


Here's a link to the 2008 results for both parties: 


Iowa Caucus Results 2008

Funny how with all the saturation coverage of minutiae over this horse race in Iowa, they carefully keep blacked out just how few people are “voting” in this thing.

And all the photos I’ve seen show a dozen or half dozen old or middle-aged white people (still haven’t seen a single non anglo-saxon type). The soundbites of these people confirm they are dementedly far-right, and pretty racist, like the guy I heard today complaining about Hispanics who “take and take welfare.” 

Of course, non-citizens can’t get “welfare.” In fact, they pay taxes and get nothing back, except a hunted existence living as peons, neo-serfs in the meat-packing industry in Iowa.

And Ron Paul being in the lead speaks volumes about these Republicans, if you’ve been following the reporting on the vile, racist, anti-Semitic articles he published for a decade or two in his crackpot “newsletters.”

This is the bar the bourgeois media sets to be President- have to start by doing well in Iowa!

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