I will post a final link here so you can all read his explaination.
I will continue to pray for him and I ask you all do as well. I have had the extreme pleasure of meeting him in person several times and he is as intelligent, funny, and personable a man as any would like to meet.
I will continue to pray for him and I ask you all do as well.
We will as well.
Good luck, Phsstpok. Best wishes :)
I think Phsstpok speaks for quite a few of us.
Some months ago I said to myself that the media, in concert with establishment politicians. is bent on picking the candidates and I wondered if they could do it.
Well, we have the answer. They can and they did.
Who schedules the primaries so this one is early, that one is latter? Who punishes states by stripping them of their delegates for trying to move their caucus/primary up to an earlier date? Who decides if it is a primary or a caucus? Who decided if a primary, in an early state, is open and that one is closed? Who decides to hype the media coverage of say a certain Candide squeaking out a win in state A and ignoring him getting blown by double digits in State B? How is it that the media spends 90% more time talking about Candidate A, who finished 4th in Iowa then they do talking about Candidate B who pulled a surprising 3 place finish? Why do party politicians line up, like good little whores, to all endorse a specific candidate? Who decides the timing of those endorsements to make sure they have maximum impact on the voter’s?
The process is manipulated. It just done in such a way most of us never notice.
Powerful people are powerful mainly because they know how to make their own luck. Powerful people try to keep that power. It not some evil plot where the faceless evil ones sit around and pick who will win this or that election. But by controlling the scheduling and structure of things the politically connected make an outcome more likely.
The Primaries are rigged. That doesn’t mean they are not honest competitions but that they are structured and gamed as much as possible so that the Party Chiefs, not us peons, pick the candidate.
he is as intelligent, funny, and personable a man as any would like to meet.
I believe you implicitly.
No one has had more stress dealing with family and personal problems for some time now than Phsstplk and few handle it as well as he has.
Phsstpok is a brilliant guy and hopefully when and if things pan out for him he will be back. To say he will be missed is a vast understatement. RG.