Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone, regarding the meaninglessness of the Iowa caucuses and the rest of the primary season:
This caucus, let’s face it, marks the beginning of a long, rigidly-controlled, carefully choreographed process that is really designed to do two things: weed out dangerous minority opinions, and award power to the candidate who least offends the public while he goes about his primary job of energetically representing establishment interests.
If that sounds like a glib take on a free election system that allows the public to choose whichever candidate it likes best without any censorship or overt state interference, so be it. But the ugly reality, as Dylan Ratigan continually points out, is that the candidate who raises the most money wins an astonishing 94% of the time in America.
When I complained about idiotic coverage of the primary season, this sort of article is the sort of thing I was looking for.
