All Hail The Conquering Theocrat!

The Establishment media is all agog over medieval sex repressor Rick Santorum’s Great Victory in the darkest backwaters of the U.S., Mississippi and Alabama. He won- with one third of the primary votes in 4-way contests. A whole  308,000 primitives voted for him in the two states. See? That proves America's a  far right wing country!

In fact, as the numbers below show, Santorum, Romney, and Gingrich each got about a third of the votes in both redneck states. Functionally it was a three-way tie. But the media distorted the result to present it as a smashing victory for Santorum. Just about every newspaper and broadcast outlet ran with the same false narrative.* (There might as well be a Bureau Of Propaganda in the U.S., giving order, so slavishly conformist to their group distortion are the media in this case. The “coverage” could hardly be more uniform.) And speaking of distorting reality, indeed of creating a false reality to confuse people about actual reality, the corporate media insist on pretending Romney is a “moderate.” As a description of his political, ideological, and economic positions, he can only appear “moderate” from an extreme reactionary perspective.

And once again a tiny sliver of the U.S. population, a group of extreme right wing religious fundamentalists, (pretty racist too- you never see a single black face in all the photos of the GOP’s Southern rallies) is given the task of acting as gatekeeper for who can be the candidate of one of the only two parties that is allowed to meaningfully exist in the U.S. Thus are all normal people forced to vote for whatever slimy con man the awful Democratic Party happens to cough up. It’s a political extortion racket, forcing people to vote for the lesser of two evils.

The neofascist Wall Street Journal was pleased and offered Santorum free advice in an editorial on how to advance his candidacy.

By the way, the two corporate-oligarchic parties don’t assign delegates to states based on population. They “reward” “loyal” states (states that vote for their party’s candidate in the general election) with extra (“bonus”) delegates. So the backward redneck state of Alabama has the same number of delegates (50) at the GOP convention as New Jersey, which has almost twice “‘Bama’s” population.  Mississippi gets more delegates than Maryland, again with half the actual population.

Georgia is smaller in population than Ohio but has more delegates at the GOP convention. Nevada has about four times as many actual people living in it as North Dakota, but gets the same number of Republican delegates.  Plus even the tiniest states get a minimum of 10 delegates.

Yet another mechanism for skewing politics in the U.S. as far to the right as they can.

Results Of Alabama Republican Primary – March 13- 100% of precincts reporting:

Rick Santorum			214,545	34.5%
Newt Gingrich			182,197	29.3%
Mitt Romney			180,250	29%
Ron Paul			30,892	5%
Other			13,858	2.2%
Results Of Mississippi Republican Primary-			March 13-  99% of precincts:
Rick Santorum	94,981	32.8%
Newt Gingrich	90,409	31.2%
Mitt Romney	88,715	30.6%
Ron Paul	12,749	4.4%
Other	3,081	1.1%

*One typical example: His victories are “big news,” says Michelle Martin on NPR, where she has her very own show, Tell Me More. Of course the rest of the corporate media treated the Santorum “victory” as the top story of the day.